#KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ #HBOMax Series

A new #documentary series about #cybercrime airing next month on #HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the #exploits of #JuliusKivimäki , a prolific #Finnish #hacker recently convicted of #leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online #psychotherapy practice while attempting to #extort the clinic and its patients.
#privacy #security

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/krebsonsecurity-in-new-most-wanted-hbo-max-series/

"Can we address the [asian] on [asian] crime in predominantly [asian] communities. [ #asian ] gangs like the Yakuza, Triads, Black Dragons, & Ghost Shadows routinely #extort and victimize women and children in the [asian] community."

#asianhate #asianmastodon

Trump tried to #extort Zelenskyy & was impeached; now he may succeed

Serving on national security council Vindman went to his twin brother, who was council’s senior ethics official & said: “If what I about tell you becomes public, #Trump will be #impeached”

He'd set up call between Trump & #Ukraine’s #Zelenskyy in July 2019. He heard Trump attempt to leverage US military aid to #Ukraine if Zelenskyy launched investigation into Biden’s son

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-impeachment

#corruption #DictatorTrump

#Trump tried to #extort #Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed

Their relationship, so cordial in 2019, has soured fast. When America’s top diplomat met his #Russian counterpart in Saudi Arabia, #Ukraine was not in the room. When Trump claimed that Ukraine was to blame for Russia’s invasion, Zelenskyy said Trump was “trapped” in a Russian “disinformation bubble”.

#USPol #auspol #RESIST #RussianInvasion #TrumpExtortion

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-impeachment

If Trump is reelected we can expect him to hold recovery funds hostage and to extort the victims favors:
Four years ago this week, it became clear that Donald Trump would husband emergency pandemic resources like ventilators and personal protective equipment for Republican-run states.
Or rather, Trump made it clear Blue-state leaders would get to see their residents die gasping for air unless they feigned fulsome praise for his pandemic response in public. 
“If they don’t treat you right, I don’t call,” he declared.

Three days ago this morning, an enormous cargo ship lost power and drifted into a pillar holding up the Francis Scott Key bridge, which collapsed instantly into the Patapsco River in Baltimore, MD. 
Already the contrast with Trump’s response to COVID-19, devoid as it was of common humanity, is stark.
But it's not just the contrast that looms large in my mind.
It’s also the recognition that the Baltimore rescue might still be underway seven months from now when voters cast their ballots for president.
And we know from Trump’s response to COVID, and to a number of other disasters that struck non-Republican states and territories during his single term, that if he inherits the effort to rebuild after this disaster, he will likely #sabotage it or hold it #hostage until the leaders of Baltimore and Maryland offer him political favors or concessions.
It’s a reminder in microcosm of one of Trump’s most disqualifying abuses of power, and why it’s critical for real reporters to press him for a response to the Key bridge calamity
—whether he intends to resume using federal disaster resources as a tool to #extort his political enemies

https://www.offmessage.net/p/trump-covid-francis-scott-key-bridge