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Lukas Mäder

@lukasmaeder.bsky.social
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Journalist NZZ | Cyber security | Technology | Disinformation

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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I wrote down the story of Ieremenko and FSB's connections to the cyber criminal underworld www.nzz.ch/pro/wie-wich...
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Hackers in the service of the Kremlin? Trial in Zurich brings new insights
A Ukrainian man in Switzerland has been involved in ransomware attacks on companies for years. Prosecutors suspect links to the Russian state.
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is according to criminal charges of a public prosecutor in Switzerland. The software developer of the two ransomware variants was a Ukrainian national living in Switzerland for over 20 years. He was arrested in October 2021. On Monday, the trial against this Ukrainian starts in Zurich. .
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New ties of the Russian intelligence service FSB to a ransomware group. The Ukrainian Oleksandr Ieremenko, know for the hacks of newswire and SEC, was a head of the group behind the ransomware LockerGoga and Megacortex. He was of such value to the FSB that he received a secret Russian identity. .
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Isn't it LokiLocker?
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Das NCSC UK spricht von "cyber incident". Das klingt schon nach Attacke. www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/collins...
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NCSC statement: Incident impacting Collins Aerospace
Statement from the NCSC regarding the cyber incident affecting Collins Aerospace.
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Danke für den Zwischenruf! Aber was zum Teufel ist eine "cyber-related disruption"? Sagt man jetzt so für "technical issue"?
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Was the plane of von der Leyen jammed? Not quite. Data from Skai Data Services show: no plane in the region had signs of GPS jamming. The attacker must have interfered from the ground, and air traffic control requested the plane to use ILS instead of GPS procedure to land in Plovdiv.
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GPS-Jamming bei von der Leyens Flug – handelte Russland gezielt gegen die EU?
In der Ostsee gibt es immer mehr GPS-Störungen, hinter denen der Kreml vermutet wird. Jetzt soll es zu einer gezielten Aktion gegen die EU-Kommissions-Präsidentin gekommen sein.
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Jonas Oesch @jonasoesch.ch · 21/03/2025
In recent months, Internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been damaged multiple times — Russian sabotage is suspected. But how does that work? Together with @cianjochem.bsky.social & @lukasmaeder.bsky.social , we visualized one case (inspired by Reuters 🤩) www.nzz.ch/ld.1875983
Infographic with a cable ship from aboveMap showing the route of a Russian ship through the baltic sea and where it passed subsea cables.
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NZZ Visuals @visuals.nzz.ch · 18/03/2025
Europas Unterseekabel sind verwundbar, das haben die letzten Monate deutlich gezeigt. Was passiert ist, wo weitere Kabel verlaufen, wie man sie repariert, kurz: Alles zu Unterseekabel gibt es hier 👇 www.nzz.ch/pro/untersee... @jonasoesch.ch, @cianjochem.bsky.social, @lukasmaeder.bsky.social
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Christian Folini @christian-folini.ch · 21/02/2025
If the US administration destroys existing initiatives and re-prioritizes the resources to new goals, this will invariably affect the global cyber security situation. @lukasmaeder.bsky.social has a thoughtful scenario what might happen in @nzz.ch. A few highlights. 1/n www.nzz.ch/pro/trump-bi...
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Trump und die Tech-Giganten: Die Verbindung schadet Europa – und stärkt die Autokratien
Die Nähe von Donald Trump und Elon Musk zeigt, wie wichtig Technologie für die amerikanische Machtpolitik ist. Drei Szenarien der Bedrohung.
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"By leveraging media coverage, NoName057 portrays itself as a far more capable threat than it actually is." Thanks for citing my article!
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
NoName057 is a highly organized group with financial resources (although they might have been cut a bit some months ago). I wrote down some background on NoName057, which is still relevant. www.nzz.ch/technologie/...
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Ukraine-Krieg: Wie eine russische Hackergruppe in der Schweiz Verunsicherung schürt
NoName057 gibt sich als Gruppe von Internet-Aktivisten aus, welche Feinde Russlands angreifen. In der Schweiz ist sie mit ihrer Einschüchterung erfolgreich.
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
With the World Economic Forum starting in Davos, the DDoS attacks of NoNameo57 are back in Switzerland. Some local websites cannot be accessed. The most important one seems from the railway RhB. But don't fall for the false narrative that hacktivists are attacking Switzerland. ./.
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Russland könnte versuchen, die Bundestagswahl in Deutschland zu beeinflussen. Was können westliche Staaten gegen Manipulation und Desinformation tun? Verbote sind heikel. Ich habe mir überlegt, in welche Richtung die Massnahmen gehen müssten. www.nzz.ch/pro/kreml-bu...
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Russland könnte deutsche Bundestagswahl beeinflussen: Wie sich Demokratien schützen können
Die Stärke von Demokratien ist es, andere Meinungen zuzulassen. Autoritäre Staaten wir Russland nutzen dies aus. Die westlichen Staaten müssen handeln.
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Roger Nordmann @nordmannroger.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Guter kommentar von @lukasmaeder.bsky.social in @nzz.ch zu den Desinformationskampagne gegen westlichen demokratie (S. 17). Und in Bern dummer Kommissionsentscheid sur massiven Schwächung der SRG, somit eines Pfeiler der Informationsouvränität der Schweiz. Naiver gehts nicht!
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Vielen Dank. Hier auch online: www.nzz.ch/pro/kreml-bu...
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Russland könnte deutsche Bundestagswahl beeinflussen: Wie sich Demokratien schützen können
Die Stärke von Demokratien ist es, andere Meinungen zuzulassen. Autoritäre Staaten wir Russland nutzen dies aus. Die westlichen Staaten müssen handeln.
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
It's interesting: it seems to me that the Salt Typhoon hack targeting US telecom companies didn't get much attention in the European media. Although several EU countries probably are among the victims of this espionage campaign. For me it shows how spy trade works today www.nzz.ch/english/chin...
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How Chinese spies gained access to major US telephone providers
A group of hackers with ties to the Chinese government has gained access to call data from major U.S. telecommunications providers. The sophisticated approach is almost impossible to counteract.
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Astonishing. Still not sure about how to explain that.
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Looks like they're kind of bored doing such stuff. I wonder what happened to NoName in the last few months. They closed the english Telegram channel and stopped posting pictured of the DDoSed sites all day long. Did someone reduce their budget?
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The US sees Chinese ship-to-shore-cranes as a threat to national security. Almost 80% of this cranes in US harbors are from China. Europe is often bedazzled and denies this concerns as protectionism. I've tried to explain why this is too simple (in German) ⬇️ www.nzz.ch/pro/china-us...
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Die Logistik in den US-Häfen ist fest in chinesischer Hand. Das ist ein Risiko für die USA
Kommt es zum offenen Konflikt zwischen China und den USA, hätte Peking ein perfektes Mittel, um seinem Konkurrenten zu schaden. Warum Hafenkräne ein Risiko sind
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
And they've been arrested in the Nederlands because they were identified after the 2016 WADA hack in Lausanne, which also included a hotel wifi www.nzz.ch/internationa...
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Die Jagd nach Putins Agenten: Wie ein Spionagefall in Lausanne zu einem Fiasko des russischen Geheimdiensts führte | NZZ
Die Ermittlungen zur Russland-Affäre in Amerika, der Einsatz von Nervengift in Salisbury und die Enttarnung russischer Spione sind alles Fäden eines grösseren Ganzen. Die Schweiz steckt dabei mittendr...
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
How to conduct an influence operation with real events ⬇️
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Astonishing and disturbing how Apple is cooperating with the authoritarian Regime in Moscow. Not new, though. therecord.media/apple-blocki...
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Apple still blocking access to news apps and podcasts at Moscow’s request
For the third time, Apple has removed a news app by the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) from its Russian version of the App Store, the media outlet said.
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
You're right. "Success" is not a precise wording. It's very hard to measure the impact of an influence operation because you don't know how the result would have been without it. But I would say: the impact of foreign influence operations was very limited because it never reached a broader audience
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Lukas Mäder @lukasmaeder.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I did look back on the influence operations before the U.S. elections with @hultquist.bsky.social. Many experts feared that foreign hackers would interfere with the U.S. elections this year. But no major influence operation succeeded. Why was that? www.nzz.ch/english/in-2...
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In 2024 US elections, foreign disinformation flopped
Experts feared that foreign hackers would use disinformation and leaks to interfere with this year's U.S. elections. A top security analyst says good preparations – and foreign failures – instead help...
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