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InfoSec @infosec.skyfleet.blue · 11h
US sanctions 10 over ATM malware scheme tied to Tren de Aragua
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US sanctions 10 over ATM malware scheme tied to Tren de Aragua
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted multiple Venezuelan nationals and several companies they control that are part of the effort to launder the money stolen from dozens of ATMs.
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Sig. Ug. @sigug.bsky.social · 20h
Films and TV which portray law enforcement or security forces involved in corruption or criminal schemes will no longer receive Russian State funding, part of the Kremlin’s defense of State institutions. Productions must also support Russian traditional values. Kommersant.ru/doc/8989896
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Погоны светлого образа
Кино про коррумпированных правоохранителей не получит госфинансирования
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The Insider @theins.press · 23h
Putin hands out state honors to 51 Channel One employees, including sanctioned propagandists and authors of fake news reports Dimitri Simes, charged in the U.S. with violating sanctions and money laundering, received the Order of Friendship.
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Putin hands out state honors to 51 Channel One employees, including sanctioned propagandists and authors of fake news reports
Vladimir Putin has bestowed state honors on 51 employees of Russia’s state-run Pervy Kanal (Channel One), the result of a decree dated Sept. 29. Among the…
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 22h
1/ A few weeks after sacred relics of St. Dmitry Donskoy were 'rediscovered' and paraded in occupied regions of Ukraine to boost Russian troops' morale, the Russian Army has reportedly lost them. This comes just over 4 years after the Russian Navy lost the True Cross of Jesus. ⬇️
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 22h
Beyond administration and warfare, captive architects were forced to build Roman-style stone structures and bathhouses inside the Hunnic heartland. Man so good at lethality that he was called Flagellum Dei/The Scourge of God understood what backbone of the empire was 2000 years ago.
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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Latest publication: Hammers & Nails: Military Innovation as a Strategic Dead End In this article I argue that innovation has become an end-in-itself, supplanting the much harder challenge of defining a meaningful, justifiable and achievable strategy. www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/hamm...
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Hammers and Nails: Military Innovation as a Strategic Dead End - Military Strategy Magazine
This article argues that contemporary Western military innovation has become a strategic dead end. Tracing the evolution of military innovation from the Revolution in Military Affairs through counteri...
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InfoSec @infosec.skyfleet.blue · 30/09/2026
South Africa Seeks Help After Cyberattack Targets Air Traffic Control
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South Africa Seeks Help After Cyberattack Targets Air Traffic Control
As aviation infrastructure suffers more cyberattacks, air traffic systems are the latest target, with a ransomware toolkit installed on at least one operational network.
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Pavel Podvig @russianforces.org · 30/09/2026
"Is the Dead Hand back? Well, it never went away" - My take on the story about Kosvinsky Kamen/The Dead Hand/Perimeter. Website: russianforces.org/blog/2026/09... Substack: russianforces.substack.com/p/is-the-dea...
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 29/09/2026
GAO has a new report about how agencies gave DOGE staffers vast access to sensitive data and largely refused to verify to GAO that proper security controls were in place. The most remarkable part is the agencies' displays of pique & rancor toward GAO for asking questions. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
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Sig. Ug. @sigug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Following the Duma “elections” in Russia, authorities began tightening restrictions on VPNs. They won’t be able to block VPNs completely, but they can make them hard to use, complicating attempts to evade Internet censorship. verstka.media/posle-vyboro...
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После выборов в Госдуму власти начали новую волну блокировок VPN в России - Вёрстка
О новых ограничениях за последнюю неделю сообщили не менее 10 VPN-сервисов
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Layer 8½ @mbrookspetersen.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks, I hate it.
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A spokesperson for ShinyHunters, the prolific cyber extortionists who hacked the FBI's job portal last week, tells me they now won't release any more data from that hack. They also sent this somewhat confusing statement that indicates they maybe think they've bitten off more than they can chew.
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The Insider @theins.press · 28/09/2026
Times report says Russia reactivated its “Dead Hand” nuclear retaliation system — expert @russianforces.org says the system was never deactivated The recent modernization of an underground command center inside Mount Kosvinsky Kamen in the Urals sparked speculation over the Soviet Perimeter system.
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Times report says Russia reactivated its “Dead Hand” nuclear retaliation system — expert Pavel Podvig says the system was never deactivated
Russia has significantly expanded and modernized a secret underground command center inside Mount Kosvinsky Kamen in the Urals in recent years, a facility…
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 28/09/2026
From @reuters.com: DUTCH POLICE: 24-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM AMSTERDAM WAS ARRESTED IN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE HACKER GROUP SHINYHUNTERS
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Sig. Ug. @sigug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One for all my colleagues uploading sensitive, proprietary, unreleased documents to the third-party AI “in order to help analyze them.”
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/09/2026
"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Screenshot of a quote-tweet by @michaeldweiss dated 27 Sep 2026. The original tweet is from "Sigal Chattah" (@Chattah4Nevada), and reads "Love is in the air [two heart emojis] Congrats [champagne emoji] to our amazing @AlinaHabba & @turhanmildoin [three emojis showing the Hamsa, a blue hand with an eye in it]." That text appears above a picture showing Kash Patel, Alina Habba, and others at a wedding ceremony. In his quote-tweet, Michael Weiss writes: "Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."
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NetBlocks @netblocks.org · 28/09/2026
⚠️ Update: Russia's spate of drone attacks on Ukraine data centers continues, with a new disruption identified to the network of DeamLine colocation provider corresponding to reports and footage of the struck premises emerging from Kyiv
Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity by provider in Ukraine from September 24, 2026, to September 27, 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents dates and times. The graph indicates connectivity disruptions in multiple providers starting on the night of September 27 (Ukraine time).The disruptions correspond to internet outages following Russian attacks targeting datacenters.The chart has a dark background with a red circle highlighting the decline at the end of the period, and includes the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner with the Mapping Internet Freedom slogan. Dream Line LTD, AS35144 (0% / 0%), TOV 'Dream Line Holding', AS42352 (0% / 0%)
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please give our newly launched investigative research organization’s account a follow: @civildefenseinst.bsky.social We are digging into the extremist networks undermining our democracy and constitutional rights. Read our first reports and profiles here: civildefenseinstitute.org
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Pavel Podvig @russianforces.org · 27/09/2026
People should take a deep breath about this "Russia reactivated the Dead Hand system" story. Object 1335 is just an element of nuclear command and control. It's never been deactivated. There is every reason to believe it's never been automatic and isn't now. Some links in reply 1/2
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 27/09/2026
JADEPUFFEr, the AI-powered ransomware group, is destroying Azure environments as part of its extortion campaigns, most likely to put pressure on victims www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
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Storm-3168: Agentic-driven cloud attacks using compromised service principals | Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft details JADEPUFFER-linked Azure reconnaissance, resource deletion, and credential access using compromised service principals, identifying the activity as associated with Storm-3168 and prov...
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Futurism @futurism.com · 26/09/2026
"In the regulated space, this kind of thing does not happen."
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Polymarket Is Being Used for Massive Money Laundering
A bombshell investigation revealed a massive amount of financial fraud roiling Polymarket, and executives couldn't care less.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 27/09/2026
new biggest crypto hack of the year just dropped
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026
In case you needed to be worried more. danwatch.dk/en/military-...
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Military documents reveal how Russia has reactivated a top-secret doomsday system
Danwatch has reviewed millions of military procurement documents and can, for the first time, reveal how the Russian military has secretly carried out a vast co
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Russia-Ukraine Daily News @rvps2001.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🇱🇻 The Insider estimates that around 1/3 of socio-political channels in Latvia’s #Telegram ecosystem are controlled by Russian propagandists posing as “angry Latvians” — and the figure rises to upwards of 65% when only Russian-language channels are included in the count. theins.press/en/inv/297571
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From Russia with “Russophobia”: Kremlin propaganda accounts are posing as “angry Latvians” to influence the country’s Telegram communities
After Latvia banned broadcasts by Russian federal television channels, Telegram became a key platform for Kremlin propaganda in the country. The Insider…
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 26/09/2026
The Snowflake hacker, a former Army soldier, was sentenced to 70 months in prison www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...
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Former U.S. Soldier Sentenced for Hacking and Extortion Scheme That Exposed Sensitive Data of U.S. Government Official
Cameron John Wagenius, 22, a former Army soldier who was most recently stationed in Texas, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution for conspiring to hack ...
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Cyber Detective @cybdetective.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
DarkNyx Onion site search engine (500+ domains indexed) Ransomware activity Telegram search Ransomware activity monitor Marketplace trends URL / site safety checker Fake online shop checker Phishing email analyzer darknyx.com
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🧵 Day 10 of Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bots on the US midterms, now targeting Dem gov nominees in GOP-held states. OPEN SEATS: FL: Jolly GA: Lance Bottoms IA: Sand OH: Acton OK: Munson SC: Johnson WY: Casner CHALLENGING INCUMBENT: AR: Love ID: Pickens
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Exploitation of enemy weapons, tech & ideas has always been a crucial part of any nation’s warfighting strategy. It permits development of counters - or copying good enemy tech & ideas. Here, the disassembling of a jet-powered Russian Geran-4 attack drone, by @rferl.org.web.brid.gy
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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 25/09/2026
Opinion: The official data shows how the results of this year's election were manipulated — and the lack of imagination of the people doing the manipulating, explains electoral analyst Ivan Shukshin.
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Here's How We Know Russia's Elections Were Fixed - The Moscow Times
Opinion | When I was approached to write this article, I was asked to demonstrate the evidence that Russia’s elections were falsified in favour of the ruling United Russia party.
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Russia-Ukraine Daily News @rvps2001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelensky says #Russia has widened its attacks to target Ukraine's data centres and internet providers, seeking to cause maximum disruption for ordinary people. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres and internet providers
Such strikes aim to disrupt "people's ability to stay connected, study, work", says Ukraine's president.
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Russia-Ukraine Daily News @rvps2001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🇩🇪 Bulgarian man and woman detained after a Sept. 3 arson attack in #Munich were part of a group linked to Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency that was operating from #Slovakia, according to a report by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. theins.press/en/news/297540 #Germany
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Bulgarians detained over Munich arson were part of GRU-linked group operating from Slovakia
A Bulgarian man and woman detained after a Sept. 3 arson attack in Munich were part of a group linked to Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency that was…
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RFI на русском @ru.rfi.fr · 25/09/2026
Следствие связало поджог в Мюнхене с российской военной разведкой
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Следствие связало поджог в Мюнхене с российской военной разведкой
Немецкие следственные органы связывают поджог рядом с офисами оборонных предприятий в Мюнхене с российскими спецслужбами. По данным Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, на которые ссылается DW, немецкие власти считают, что за атакой могло стоять Главное управление генерального штаба вооруженных сил России, ранее известное как ГРУ. Таким образом, это может быть второй за месяц случай предполагаемой российской диверсии на территории Германии: после попытки дроновой атаки в аэропорту Лейпцига.
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Philippe Vynckier @pvynckier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Recovery from ransomware attacks now costs an average of $2.26 million | Frontier Enterprise www.frontier-enterprise.com/recovery-fro...
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Recovery from ransomware attacks now costs an average of $2.26 million | Frontier Enterprise
Identity-based attack techniques were used in 85% of ransomware attacks against education institutions, according to a report from Sophos. Those techniques include malicious email, phishing, compromis...
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Russia-Ukraine Daily News @rvps2001.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🇬🇧 A British man will go on trial next year accused of providing information about factories which manufacture ​drones and offering to sabotage them on behalf ‌of Russian intelligence, a London court was told on Friday. www.reuters.com/world/uk/man... #russia
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Man appears in London court accused of providing Russian intelligence with drone factory details
A British man will go on trial next year accused of providing information about factories which manufacture ​drones and offering to sabotage them on behalf ‌of Russian intelligence, a London court was...
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Cyber Detective @cybdetective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Darknet Research & Cyber Forensics Hub 1. Foundations & Security Protocols 2. Network Access & Architecture 3. OSINT & Intelligence Operations 4. OPSEC, Forensics & Threat Analysis 5. Utility Toolkits & Archives github.com/jobiryasir/d...
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Anton Barbashin @abarbashin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you want to know how exactly the Kremlin cooked this year's Duma elections results? Check out this ridl.io article ridl.io/linear-russia/
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Linear Russia – Riddle Russia
Ksenia Smolyakova on how the Russia authorities got the result they wanted in the State Duma election
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 24/09/2026
New Yorker gets 12 years in prison for calling Coinbase customers and posing as tech support to steal their funds He stole $16m but has since lost $6m to crypto gambling www.brooklynda.org/2026/09/23/b...
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Brooklyn Man Sentenced to up to 12 Years in Prison for Stealing Nearly $16 Million in Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Scheme - The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 23, 2026 Brooklyn Man Sentenced to up to 12 Years in Prison for Stealing Nearly $16 Million in Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Scheme Scammed Approximately 100 Vic...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today, Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bots targeted non-incumbent Dems running for US governorships: AK: Kreiss-Tomkins AL: Jones CO: Weiser KS: Holscher ME: Pingree MI: Benson MN: Klobuchar NM: Haaland RI: Foulkes WI: Crowley
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 24/09/2026
A new malware loader named Sauron is being advertised on underground hacking forums. According to DCSO, the malware is sold exclusively to Russian-speaking individuals and has already been seen in the wild in Germany. medium.com/@DCSO_CyTec/...
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Sauron Loader: A New Loader Lurking in Underground Forums
Technical analysis of a novel loader sold in Russian underground forums
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The New Voice of Ukraine @english.nv.ua · 24/09/2026
Russian attacks have destroyed equipment at Kyiv data centers operated by CityHost and MiroHost, disrupting internet and hosting services. Providers are working to restore operations, with some turning to backup infrastructure abroad
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Russia strikes data centers again with Kyiv facing internet outages
Overnight into Sept. 24, Russia carried out fresh strikes on data centers in Kyiv, following reports on Sept. 23 of damage to similar facilities that affected a number of providers. Today, their list ...
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Alexej Hock @alexejhock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Der Gründer des russischen Telegram-Kanals Rybar ist wegen Kriegspropaganda von der EU sanktioniert. Dennoch beschäftigt der Kanal zwei Mitarbeiter, die seit Jahren in Berlin leben. Recherche von @istories.bsky.social und @correctiv.org correctiv.org/aktuelles/ru...
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Russischer Kriegskanal Rybar operiert von Berlin aus
Der russische Propaganda-Kanal „Rybar“ erreicht 1,5 Millionen Nutzer und ist in der EU sanktioniert. Zwei Mitarbeiter des Kanals wohnen trotzdem in Berlin.
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence @threatintel.microsoft.com · 24/09/2026
Across multiple intrusions leading to different ransomware payloads, the ransomware affiliate tracked as Storm-2570 has used consistent post-compromise tools and techniques, highlighting the value of monitoring recurring attacker behaviors rather than tracking payloads alone. msft.it/63328a9HMw
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Beyond the ransomware: Tracking Storm-2570’s consistent tradecraft across deployments | Microsoft Security Blog
Storm-2570 is a ransomware affiliate that uses consistent post-compromise tools and techniques across deployments involving Qilin, DragonForce, Anubis, and BERT ransomware, and provides guidance to help defenders detect and disrupt this activity before ransomware deployment.
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 24/09/2026
In a report released this week, GAO said the FAA isn't doing enough to prevent hackers from interfering with aviation communications channels: www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
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Sig. Ug. @sigug.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Even more details about the spyware capabilities of the Russian government’s official chat app Max: from its servers, VK can activate services on the user’s device and scan messages for keywords. rks.global/ru/research/max-interseclab/
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Исследователи: MAX может незаметно активировать функции слежки за отдельными аккаунтами
Глубокий анализ мессенджера MAX от международных экспертов
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 24/09/2026
Hackers breached a third cargo ship, one that loaded in New Orleans and was traveling to Italy It's now docked in Spain after hackers breached systems involving tank pressure, safety valves and boil-off gas management neworleanscitybusiness.com/blog/2026/09...
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Louisiana-loaded LNG tanker under cyberattack alters course | New Orleans CityBusiness
Federal agencies are monitoring nearly 20 vessels after a cyberattack disrupted an LNG tanker loaded at a Louisiana export terminal.
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Sig. Ug. @sigug.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not the first time the Russians have targeted Internet companies
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1/ Russian courts currently acquit 0.24% of defendants. The Russian government evidently believes this is too high, and is planning to effectively eliminate jury trials, which provide most of the acquittals. Lawyers are calling it "the death of the jury system." ⬇️
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