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New, from me: Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?
On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of speculation and panic among XSS denizens about the identity of the unnamed suspect, but the consensus is that he is a pivotal figure in the crime forum scene who goes by the hacker handle "Toha." Here's a deep dive on what's knowable about Toha, and a short stab at who got nabbed.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/who-got-arrested-in-the-raid-on-the-xss-crime-forum/
Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned $100M+ on it, its annual revenue is $8.5M+, it now supports ActivityPub, and is upping new member pricing (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/ghost-makes-it-easier-to-publish-to-the-social-web/
http://www.techmeme.com/250805/p37#a250805p37
The open-source publishing platform Ghost, which powers the websites and newsletters of many independent news outlets and positions itself as an alternative to Substack and Beehiiv, announced Monday that it’s introducing a number of upgrades aimed at increasing reach and understanding exactly wha…
@carnage4life moral hazard ensues
Regulate buybacks, this hack is killing shareholder capitalism
Russian invaders are deliberately hunting civilians in the Ukrainian city of Kherson.
They are not ashamed. They openly brag about it. And every international “human rights” institution is silent about that.
https://kyivindependent.com/human-safari-kherson-civilians-hunted-down-by-russian-drones/
Editor’s note: Some of the Kherson locals interviewed for this story refused to be identified by last name due to fear for their safety. KHERSON – On a warm September evening, Olha Chernyshova’s day took a grim turn when she was returning home from work in downtown Kherson. Stepping out of her car, she heard a loud buzz and immediately knew it was not a bumblebee. She rushed towards her home’s entrance door. A deafening blast shook the yard. A drone had dropped an explosive on her car. Time fr
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