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"A quick demonstration on how to appear as an APT28 related C2" https://blog.0day.rocks/lets-get-fancy-with-false-flags-28eaabefeff6

"As a result, the United States now has a hollow, unempowered, and demoralized diplomatic corps that cannot effectively make its voices heard in critical interagency debates or in discussions with foreign governments."

https://warontherocks.com/2017/05/trumps-next-task-learning-the-limits-of-military-power/

"Haidara stayed in jihadist-occupied Timbuktu for a month, covertly organising the hiding of his manuscripts in family houses."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/30/jihadists-were-going-to-burn-it-all-the-amazing-story-of-timbuktus-book-smugglers

HackerOne is running a bug bounty program for FlexiSpy, who specialise in spying on spouses https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/857314960099160067

Their justification: it's "just fixing vulns" https://twitter.com/senorarroz/status/857399800601337856

I don't buy this at all. By providing security testing services to a shady company, you lend legitimacy to them and their brand. I agree with Casey on this one https://twitter.com/caseyjohnellis/status/857362206626689025

Also, this NYT longform - mostly focusing on HT - was good. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/magazine/cyberwar-for-sale.html

I somehow missed this Foreign Policy profile of David Vincenzetti, published exactly a year ago.

You won't learn anything if you already went through the abundant documentation on Hacking Team, but still worth a read.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/26/fear-this-man-cyber-warfare-hacking-team-david-vincenzetti/