The Iran-linked MuddyWater crew ran a four-continent espionage campaign mostly using... legit software. Signed binaries, DLL side-loading, Node.js instead of PowerShell, data exfiltrated through a normal file-sharing site.
If you're not watching behaviour, you're watching the wrong layer.
My read: the legal process and the political relationship are about to grind hard against each other, and rule-of-law states don't get to just wave that away. Uncomfortable...too early to know how Kyiv answers.
Stelios Kouloglou, an MEP on the committee investigating Pegasus got hacked with Pegasus. While the investigation was ongoing. 🤓
https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/
"The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) is concerned that municipalities may be weighing the revenue generated by data centres more heavily than the security aspects associated with them." 🫣
Russia reportedly switched off part of the camera network guarding Putin... 😂
Interesting! Study traces some of Europe's GPS dropouts back to Russia's missile-warning satellites.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/world/europe/russia-satellites-gps-interference-europe.html
Russia built a whole new assassination unit from scratch to replace Unit 29155 after we burned it. Built with hundreds of FSB/GRU/FSO people, oligarch shadow money.... engineered specifically to not repeat the old mistakes.
EU member states are quietly rubber-stamping export licences for spyware to El Salvador, the UAE, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, and a handful more. Time for the EU to act.
https://therecord.media/bulgaria-allowed-surveillance-tech-firm-to-sell-to-repressive-regimes-report
We spent years fighting over warrants and wiretap rules. Meanwhile agencies just buy the same data on the open market. If your data's for sale, it's for sale to everyone.
https://www.ft.com/content/758a0f6f-6f86-4897-a292-85f3a2b316e2
Damn. I think I need to implement my PQC plans a little sooner.....
Nothing new here, so not sure why it’s news.
Cards Against Humanity made this one as a joke prior to Trump's first term... sad that it may be more useful than a joke soon.
RE: https://officiell-info.se/@svtnyheter/116166327718854656
No shit. 😂
Haven't heard much about Havana Syndrome lately., apparently a researcher in Norway was able to reproduce the effects with a pulsed microwave device. #HavanaSyndrome
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/14/havana-syndrome-cia-norway-experiment/
Interesting read!
OSINT & Phaleristics: Unveiling FSB’s 16th Center SIGINT Capabilities #Finland #Russia #Cyberwarfare
Germany's AfD in Lower Saxony designated as extremist group. Interesting to see how this develops. #Democracy #Germany #FarRight
https://www.dw.com/en/lower-saxony-afd-state-chapter-designated-extremist-group/a-76004012
Chinese hackers exploiting Dell zero-day flaw since mid-2024! #Cybersecurity #China
RE: https://mastodon.ie/@WikimediaIE/116068303560753768
Happy Valentines. ❤️
RE: https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/@ycombinator/116068355456361299
Not sure I’d do this myself but fascinating that it’s possible.