FOIA docs: ICE used a tool called GOST to decide whether US visa applicants' social media posts are “derogatory” to the US, as part of immigration enforcement
Check out this @404mediaco story on social media surveillance docs obtained by our @ACLU_NorCal team + @ACLU. https://www.404media.co/... Terri K O / @terri@social.afront.org : This article on how the...
A look at ShadowDragon, which offers social media surveillance tools that gather data from games and more, used by ICE, the State Department, the DEA, and more
Daniel Clemens sits in a darkened room and speaks about why he thinks people should not protest. Mastodon: @jomo@mstdn.io and @josephcox@infosec.exchange X: @twocatsand_docs , @ryanjhaas , @ashleylatk...
Despite the US adding Hangzhou-based encryption chip maker Hualan to its Entity List in 2021, NASA, NATO, the DEA, and more still use chips from its subsidiary
The US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China's military. Yet US agencies still use … Mastodon: @agreenberg@infosec.exchange . Tweets: @wired Mastodon: Andy Greenbe...
The US charges two US members of the ViLE cybercriminal group for an alleged May 2022 hack into a DEA portal that taps into 16 federal law enforcement databases
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The DEA finds a Mexico-based methamphetamine and cocaine gang operating across the US, Mexico, Europe, and Australia used Binance to launder $15M to $40M
A methamphetamine and cocaine gang operating across the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Australia used the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange Binance …
An investigation shows how, despite US sanctions on the NSO Group, government spyware use is booming, including the DEA's secret deployment of Graphite spyware
which employ former Israeli cyberintelligence veterans. After questions from The New York Times, the Greek government admitted that it gave one of them, Ronen Bergman / @ronenbergman : Congress and th...
The DEA is investigating reports that hackers gained access to its Law Enforcement Inquiry and Alerts system that taps into 16 federal law enforcement databases
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says it is investigating reports that hackers gained unauthorized access …
A profile of Nebraska-based PenLink, a wiretapping company helping law enforcement like the FBI, DEA, and ICE collect data from Apple, Meta, Google, and others
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How Belgian police infiltrated messaging service Sky ECC in February and March, gaining access to a billion messages and facilitating arrests and drug seizures
Criminals thought encrypted Sky ECC cellphones were impregnable, but cops tapped a billion messages, yielding arrests and drug seizures Tweets: @drewharwell , @kimzetter , @marson_jr , @keegan_hamilto...
Documents from an ACLU lawsuit show Microsoft tried to sell facial recognition tech to the DEA in late 2017, six months before the company called for regulation
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