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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

This channel on Telegram @theprotocolone @theprotocolone2 is still publishing these clickfix-but-javascript-injection-in-browser crypto "exploits" that are in fact stealing bitcoin from anyone willing to try them.

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Ten years ago this month, the DNC got hacked and emails were leaked by Russian intelligence ("Fancy Bear" and "Cozy Bear", as per CrowdStrike). Why does it feel like it's been twice as long as that?

A screenshot of the author's article listings on Ars Technica for late July and early August 2016.

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

The lunch crowd at my place is a little more polite these days

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

When the phishing adversary uses a free platform to create a phishing page but forgets all the flare (and monetization) the platform provider injects... And people still give their credentials.

A screenshot of an Outlook phishing site with a "made with Softr" graphic and an advertisement popping up at the bottom for some game.

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Hey, everyone! Sorry for the extended period of silence. A lot of stuff has been going down irt dealing with aging and ailing parents, and since the start of the new year I have been focusing on getting back to work. The infosec and bird-related content feed is now ready to resume.

A downy woodpecker looks a little overwhelmed but is hanging in there.

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025

I've made various improvements to CyberThreaterator over lunch breaks, while watching TV, and other non-work brain cycles. There's a plan here: eventually, I want to produce full threat briefs on demand for imaginary actors with IoCs and the rest of what […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A screen shot with the following text:
CyberThreaterator
The APT/Cyber Threat Name Generator
Your APT name is:
Doom Metal PotatoBeetle
Sandals based Jeff Bezos-worshipping religious cul
Motivation: will hack for food
Modus operandi: fake malware alert scamming

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

Night Herons nesting in Fells Point have gotten…numerous.

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

For millenia these guys have swooped around marshes, creeks and ponds virtually unchanged (other than in size, possibly), the apex predators of airborne invertebrates (and in nymph node, of aquatic ones). Let's not f**k things up for one kind of evolutionary […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

Been on radio silence here for a bit. Things are going well. I have finished up the first portion of my onboarding experience at Cisco and am now getting myself up to speed on the ways of Talos threat intelligence. All the people here are awesome. I am […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A fledged fish crow expecting me to throw more peanuts out the window

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2025

Mockingbird auditioned for National Bird, but couldn't keep the sarcasm out of his voice.

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2025

A little 'Circle of Life' moment from this weekend: A female Cooper's Hawk swooped in and snatched a timberdoodle we were watching, just as I was getting the camera ready....

A Cooper's Hawk perched in Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, March 15 2025

The Cooper's Hawk has caught an American Woodcock. :o

Cooper's Hawks are apex predators in the urban / wildlife interface of Baltimore. This one is a female, of a pair that nest annually in Patterson Park.

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2025

Briefly considered. Wisely left at the thrift store. No time to go down the 8mm film rabbit hole.

A Bell and Howell Electric Eye 8mm movie camera found on a store shelf.

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2025

In a different sort of technology news, my latest batch of pottery got fired. Learned a lot from this set.

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2025

There is a very specific set of fake person accounts--using images harvested from someone's social media or Gen AI to create a fake persona--targeting "Resistance," "Blue Wave," "Blue," and other Democratic Party aligned hashtags, trolling for center-left […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Sean Gallagher :verified: 🐀 :donor: @thepacketrat.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2025

For those of you who have not been participating in the BlueSky grand experiment, a brief report from the battlefield. I've been collecting, reporting and blocking as many fake accounts as I can. They come in three main varieties: retreaded scammers, fake […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]