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https://www.thetimes.com/article/cfd5f639-db6b-41f1-a583-d9adbf64bea3?shareToken=39c1ba3cdbc6dd583aa58c3d628751b8

More info: https://www.hacklore.org/ 🔐

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Listen, I'm not going to pretend that I'm even remotely surprised, but I will tell you that this is a slap in the face to every person in the infosec community that has worked to track and thwart Russian APTs for the last several decades.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-hacking-cyber-security

Just a few weeks left in our first round of the #BSidesKC2024 CFP & CFT!

This round closes 2/10/2024, so visit https://bsideskc.org/call-for-papers/ for submission info!

Mastadonians wanting more security- and privacy-related content here: there are a bunch of journalists, researchers and engineers who are woefully underfollowed relative to the impact and importance of the work they do. Please follow and engage with them so they have a strong incentive to use this platform more.

There are way too many to name all of them. In no particular order here are some (but sorry, not all; please look at the people I follow for more):

@lhn
@josephcox
@jasonkoebler
@malwarejake
@sophieschmieg
@howelloneill
@selenalarson
@philip
@neilmadden
@ryanc
@Wednesday
@yossarian
@LukaszOlejnik
@chenghlee
@saraislet
@Bryan

Please boost for visibility

Less than a week after a highly convincing Google-hosted malvertising campaign finally got taken down, the same folks are right back at it.

My post from last week:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/google-hosted-malvertising-leads-to-fake-keepass-site-that-looks-genuine/

Thanks to @jeromesegura