billy leonard
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billy leonard
@billyleonard
pogue life. @Google TAG, Global Head of Analysis of State Sponsored Hacking And Threats.
Katılım Mart 2009
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The thing about metro-ing an hour into Virginia is you get to see every form of weapons grade depression that exists
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after 15+ years, friday was my last day at @Google. really proud of what we accomplished and the impact we had protecting users everywhere. thank you to everyone that was part of the journey ❤️
really excited about what’s up next!
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#TBT to some work we published in early 2023 attributing Cyber Army of Russia Reborn to FROZENBARENTS/APT44
blog.google/threat-analysi…
good to see the indictment and advisory from USG and others confirming attribution for CARR:
#AppB:~:text=Special%20Technologies%20(GTsST)-,military%20unit%2074455,-%E2%80%94tracked%20in%20the" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cisa.gov/news-events/cy…
billy leonard@billyleonard
FROZENBARENTS is also active on the IO side, leaking data from victims they have compromised through their CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn TG channel. They also had presence on YT and IG, but with 0⃣ meaningful engagement. 5/🧵
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good news @craiu, you can use @googlechrome again! the Chrome Cleanup Tool was removed from Chrome almost 3 years ago. happy to have you back!
security.googleblog.com/2023/03/thank-…
Ryan Naraine@ryanaraine
This week's Three Buddy Problem is live on all platforms (presented by @material_sec) securityconversations.com/episode/gemini…
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🆕🆕 Thrilled to see new research from @Google Threat Intelligence Group on adoption & experimentation with AI from threat actors. Lot of great work from the team, including our collab with @GoogleDeepMind on mitigations & disruption.
read it here:
cloud.google.com/blog/topics/th…
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great summary of this work and the implications from @dnvolz and @bobmcmillan in the WSJ today
wsj.com/tech/ai/chines…
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🆕 research from @Google Threat Intelligence Group and friends in @GoogleDeepMind on adversary misuse of gen AI. productivity gainz 💪, but no 🚫 new novel capabilities observed yet. really great work from many across the team!
cloud.google.com/blog/topics/th…
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Go vote & then treat yourself to a fresh @dunkindonuts iced coffee. It will help power you through this marathon of a day.
(No, this is not an ad. Despite my very best efforts I’m not yet sponsored by Dunkin)
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🆕🚨 New analysis from @Google TAG on suspected APT29 waterholes against 🇲🇳 gov. n-day exploits targeting iOS and Android we first observed in use from commercial surveillance vendors🫢 more details in the blog! awesome work from @_clem1 and team🤝
blog.google/threat-analysi…
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the only time you’ll catch him in a collared shirt too!
it’s hard to overstate @_clem1’s impact on disrupting campaigns from the commercial surveillance industry, nice to see him get a bit of the spotlight. looking forward to his @hexacon_fr keynote soon!
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unfortunate missing comma in first post:
… dedicated to protecting users COMMA disrupting campaigns, and making life hard for the actors.
🤦♂️
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🆕🚨 analysis from @Google on APT42 activity against 🇺🇸 and 🇮🇱. A ton of work from folks over the past few months dedicated to protecting users disrupting campaigns, and making life hard for the actors. More to come!
blog.google/threat-analysi…
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4/🧵 TAG and our partner teams across @Google will continue to publish new findings and analysis related to the IO activity we see on our platforms, and the engagement (or more accurately, lack thereof) that these campaigns receive.
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3/🧵 DRAGONBRIDGE has used GenAI for the past several years, and continues to experiment here. This has not resulted in additional engagement across our platforms.
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🔥 new research and analysis from @Google TAGs @AZakButler on the most prolific 🇨🇳 IO actor, DRAGONBRIDGE 🐉🌉
a short 🧵
blog.google/threat-analysi…
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next round of TAG and P0 swag, let's make it happen @itswillis 🦺🦺🛴🤝
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Halvar Flake@halvarflake
The cynic in me is saying that if you are a secret agent on a counterterrorism mission, it's kinda your job not to have your secret equipment confiscated by the mall cop on the segway, so I think the lady doth protest too much. (Random subtweet)
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