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𝗥𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘀 🇿🇦

@cryptoron

Cyber Security / Hunt & Hackett / Ooit NFI/AIVD/Fox-IT/TIB/OVV/Kiesraad. Maakt podcast Cyberhelden. Zuid-Afrika is nu. 🇿🇦🇿🇦

Cape Town, South Africa Katılım Ekim 2008
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Sean Wiswesser
Sean Wiswesser@Wiswesser·
No one writes a book alone. And for me, writing a book about Russian intelligence was not without considering the risk. But this has been a life-long mission, and many helped me -and that same mission- along the way. 🎉I want to take a moment to thank those who supported, and to celebrate with our BOOK LAUNCH MONTH! 🙏My deep appreciation to all those below who have endorsed officially but also helped in so many other ways. Below are just a few I want to thank, with just some of the endorsements. Am in all your debt and @NavalInstitute for publishing me. ✅Please consider ordering if you haven't, USNI is already shipping, Amazon in a couple of weeks and in bookstores 21 April! 🙏 My appreciation to these senior intelligence community, CIA leaders (including two former Deputy Directors), military, academics and others who have endorsed: 👉 Tradecraft, Tactics and Dirty Tricks presents a very comprehensive study of Russian espionage and subversion tactics and modus operandi. It will serve as an indispensable handbook for national security professionals, students of Russian government and history and international affairs, and readers in the general public interested in the topic. - From the book Foreword, by 🚨Michael Sulick, Former CIA Deputy Director for Operations, and Director of the National Clandestine Service 👉 Essential reading for practitioners, policymakers, and citizens alike who want to understand (and perhaps resist) Putin's secret war. 🚨- Jennifer Ewbank, Former Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation 👉Hard to put down, and harder to forget when falling asleep at night. - John Nagl, author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam 👉Sean's book is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the tradecraft utilized by what remain our most professionally skilled intelligence adversaries: the Russian foreign intelligence and security services. - Former CIA Chief of Counterintelligence Mark Kelton 👉Filled with authoritative and compelling detail, welcome clarity, and insightful nuance, Wiswesser's book is required reading for any policymaker, intelligence officer, academic, or businessman dealing with Russian issues. - Paul Kolbe, Former Chief CIA Central Eurasia Division, Senior Fellow at Harvard Belfer Center 👉An excellent book about the RIS and the threat they pose to the West. It is informative, approachable, and compelling. Written by a true expert, it should be mandatory reading for everyone in the U.S. IC. - Robert Dannenberg, Former CIA Central Eurasia Division Chief/Chief of Russian Operations 👉Encounters with Russian officers add authenticity to his narrative that is rare in books about Russian intelligence. - Kevin Riehle, Lecturer in Intelligence, Brunel University 👉Lifts the lid on the inner workings of the Russian security services. - Gregory Sims, former CIA Station Chief #Espionage #RussianIntelligence #USNI #NationalSecurity
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mrdoornbos
mrdoornbos@mrdoornbos·
I let a Commodore 64 run for three and a half days straight. 87 billion instructions, 303 billion clock cycles, 5.9 million candidate settings tested. It cracked an Enigma message in German without knowing a single character of the plaintext. 🧵1/2
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Kyros
Kyros@IamKyros69·
The former Google CEO just dropped a terrifying Al timeline.
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WIRED
WIRED@WIRED·
A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites. wired.com/story/hundreds…
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Lukasz Olejnik
Lukasz Olejnik@lukOlejnik·
The Russian SIGINT/SATCOM station in Vienna is intercepting C-band communications from the Eutelsat 3B, Eutelsat 10B, SES-5, and Rascom QAF1 satellites, which serve Africa and connect to UN offices, embassies, oil fields, and military bases. That’s not all. Olymp-K2, a Russian satellite capable of proximity operations (RPO - Rendezvous and Proximity Operations), is performing unusual maneuvers instead of remaining in a fixed orbital position. RPO enables it to approach Western satellites, monitor them, and even disrupt their functioning, seize control of them, or sabotage them. Owing to its close proximity, Olymp-K2 can intercept unencrypted command-and-control signals used to manage satellite positioning, antennas, and data handling. A kinetic anti-satellite strike, or close-proximity operations used to disable or seize control of a satellite, could, depending on their scale and effects, amount to a prohibited use of force and, in an extreme case, potentially an armed attack. The entire operation appears to be tightly coordinated - the station in Vienna intercepts data from ground links, while Olymp-K2 targets command-and-control signals in outer space. Together, they form a two-layered espionage network, giving Russia deep access to Western military and diplomatic communications in Africa. My assessment in @just_security justsecurity.org/86823/the-oute…
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Stefan Tanase
Stefan Tanase@stefant·
Technical breakdown of the Telegram / Google Translate vector mentioned in this investigation by @christogrozev Telegram on Android had for a long time used a free Google Translate API endpoint for the message translation feature. Thread 🧵
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Denis Alimov, FSB Alfa veteran and senior operative of Russia's new and "most secretive" assassination unit, walked into El Dorado Airport in Bogotá on Feb 24 looking like a tourist heading to Cartagena. He walked out in handcuffs. He was undone by Google Translate. 🧵New @TheInsider investigation with @DerSpiegel — thread below.

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@stefant How does Google view those translations? Is that then a user who is logged in and does it end up in their history? I can’t imagine that the FBI is allowed to freely monitor what is being translated by Google, but I can imagine that they request data from targets.
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Nav Toor
Nav Toor@heynavtoor·
🚨BREAKING: This Python tool reverses pixelation and recovers the original text from "censored" screenshots. It's called Depix. You pixelate a password. Depix reads it anyway. No AI model. No GPU. No cloud service. Just math. Here's how it works: → You feed it the pixelated screenshot → It generates a search image using a De Bruijn sequence → Matches each pixelated block against known character renders → Uses geometric proximity to eliminate false positives → Reconstructs the plaintext character by character Here's the wildest part: It was originally built because someone pixelated a Domain Admin password in a corporate screenshot. The kind of credential that controls an entire company's network. Depix cracked it. Every redaction tool you've ever used. Greenshot, Gimp, Snagit. If it uses a linear box filter for pixelation, this tool can reverse it. The original repo hit 26,152 GitHub stars before the creator reset it. That's how hard this blew up. Think about every screenshot you've ever shared with "censored" credentials, API keys, emails, or private messages. If you pixelated them instead of using solid black bars, they were never hidden. One command to run. Pure Python. 100% Open Source.
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Dan ben je een super elite Russische hit squad en faal je zo verschrikkelijk met je OPSEC. Google translate gebruiken omdat je hitman geen Russisch spreekt... En nee, de FBI monitort niet alles wat je door Google translate haalt. De hitman was al een target. Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft theins.press/en/inv/290235
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