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Jeff Stone

@jeffstone500
65 posts
2024-09-10
A key aspect of the Terrorgram — and the state of far-right domestic terrorism — is to operate in a kind of decentralized, leaderless movement. In fact, the structure of so many attacks proves that leaders are circulating instructions. Hard Rest has been the most influential. [image]
2024-09-10 View on X
Reuters

US charges leaders of white supremacist gang The Terrorgram Collective, which uses Telegram to celebrate attacks on minorities, with trying to incite a race war

and the state of far-right domestic terrorism — is to operate in a kind of decentralized, leaderless movement. In fact, the structure of so many attacks proves that leaders are cir...

2024-08-27
new for @BW: Shootings + plots against US power stations are way up since a white supremacist network distributed instructions on how extremists can cause havoc. The feds are worried about more attacks like the one that killed someone in North Carolina. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-08-27 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at “Terrorgram”, a network of far-right Telegram channels posting info on power grid attacks, which the North American Reliability Corp. says have spiked

Jeff Stone / Bloomberg : X: @jeffstone500 . Forums: r/technology , r/law , r/politics , and r/conservativeterrorism X: Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500 : new for @BW: Shootings + plots ...

new for @BW: Shootings + plots against US power stations are way up since a white supremacist network distributed instructions on how extremists can cause havoc. The feds are worried about more attacks like the one that killed someone in North Carolina. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-08-27 View on X
New York Times

French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe “against person unnamed” into CSAM, drug sales, and more on the app and not working with authorities

A case was opened last month to investigate child pornography, drug sales, fraud and other criminal activities on the platform.

2024-06-14
news: Snowflake tells @CGorrivan @BrodyFord_ its shutting down an internal probe into a hack that's impacted up to 165 other orgs (tip @techmeme) https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-06-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Snowflake plans to close an internal probe into recent cyberattacks after not detecting any unauthorized access into customer accounts since early last week

No unauthorized access of customer accounts has been detected in over a week, CISO Brad Jones tells me and Charles Gorrivan. …

2023-03-27
researchers tell @_szheng that, yes, there's malware in that Chinese shopping app that Google just banned. Kaspersky says “Pinduoduo exploited system software vulnerabilities to install backdoors and gain unauthorized access to user data.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-03-27 View on X
Bloomberg

Kaspersky: some versions of Pinduoduo, suspended by Google from its app store, exploited Android vulnerabilities to install backdoors and gain user data access

Security researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have identified and outlined potential malware in versions …

2022-11-06
spyware vendor NSO Group cuts staff, raises prices by 15% in the face of the US blacklist, per @ElizaHannon @dscigliuzzo also: Israel stalled the L3Harris deal over “disagreements over whether a new owner would gain full access to NSO's underlying code.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-11-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Source: NSO Group, which has ~$400M in debt, cut 15% of its workforce and raised prices by ~20% after a potential sale to defense contractor L3Harris collapsed

Bloomberg : Tweets: @jeffstone500 Tweets: Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500 : spyware vendor NSO Group cuts staff, raises prices by 15% in the face of the US blacklist, per @ElizaHannon ...

2022-09-22
New, via @MargiMurphy: Microsoft won't say what's false when it labels fake news and propaganda online. The company is experimenting with ways to disrupt foreign influence operations, in much the same way it's trying to remove malware. More @business —> https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-09-22 View on X
Bloomberg

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company can't “use what others might consider censorship as a tactic” regarding labeling content that seems to be false

> https://www.bloomberg.com/... See also Mediagazer

2022-09-15
Vast amount of Chinese data for sale on dark forums after Shanghai cops lost control about 1 billion people, @_szheng finds. Breach Forums, the home to a lot of these listings, shrugs at Beijing's attention: “We do not have to obey Chinese laws.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-09-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Group-IB: since the data of ~1B Chinese citizens appeared for sale, smaller tranches have appeared on forums, often including personal info and national IDs

Bloomberg : Tweets: @jeffstone500 Tweets: Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500 : Vast amount of Chinese data for sale on dark forums after Shanghai cops lost control about 1 billion people,...

2022-07-28
New: Victimized at school and disregarded by cops, two survivors of sexual assault figured out who hacked one of their Snapchat accounts, unmasking a creep who stole nude pictures from 300 people. read the epic story of @natalieclaus_ in this @BW feature. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-07-28 View on X
Bloomberg

How two college students used an IP address grabbing tool to find who hacked one of their Snapchat accounts in a sextortion scheme, putting the attacker in jail

2022-06-21
the crypto sharks are eating each other alive: pushing each other into liquidation to earn bonuses, via @olgakharif @business https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-06-21 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at crypto “shark traders”, who scour blockchain records for information on traders with highly leveraged positions and try to push them into liquidation

2022-05-20
Importantly, the DOJ shift *does not* save researchers from prosecution under numerous state laws. CFAA also is a civil statute, meaning that corporations can still sue ethical researchers, as @HarleyGeiger, one of the authors of Aaron's Law, explained to me.
2022-05-20 View on X
VICE

In a policy shift, the US Department of Justice plans to stop prosecuting good-faith security research that would have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

to choose not to prosecute security research as a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not...

This comes after Swartz's death, and after SCOTUS ruled last year that DOJ's interpretation of CFAA was overly broad in the Van Buren case. This change would've ruled out prosecution of @niftyc, who sued DOJ in order to research social media biases. https://news.umich.edu/...
2022-05-20 View on X
VICE

In a policy shift, the US Department of Justice plans to stop prosecuting good-faith security research that would have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

to choose not to prosecute security research as a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not...

Exclusive: DOJ is instructing US prosecutors not to bring charges under an anti-hacking law for “good-faith” cybersecurity research. 👀👀 It's a big update for the controversial Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was used to prosecute Aaron Swartz. (Fully story coming soon.) https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-20 View on X
VICE

In a policy shift, the US Department of Justice plans to stop prosecuting good-faith security research that would have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

to choose not to prosecute security research as a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not...

2022-05-18
A flaw in Bluetooth tech makes it possible for hackers to unlock two Tesla models and start up the engines, & deactivate smart locks, @MargiMurphy reports in a @business exclusive today. Lock fixes are coming in the summer. No comment from Tesla. 👀👀 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-05-18 View on X
BleepingComputer

Researchers detail a BLE relay attack to unlock and operate a Tesla outside its BLE range; when told in April, Tesla said relay attacks are a “known limitation”

2022-05-02
NSO Group's notorious Pegasus spyware was used to hack Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's phone amid debate over the Catalonia referendum. Spies also infiltrated the phone of Spain's defense minister last June, via @rorihuela. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-05-02 View on X
The Guardian

Spain says its PM's and defense minister's phones were infected by NSO's Pegasus spyware in 2021, which will be investigated by Spain's highest criminal court

Minister for presidency says ‘illicit’ targeting will be investigated by Spain's highest criminal court

2022-04-08
Ghostwriter, a Belarusian disinfo operation, tried hacking Ukrainian soldiers' Facebook accounts to post videos encouraging Kyiv to surrender, Meta says. The same outfit previously has spread faked diplomatic letters and doctored tweets from US lawmakers. https://about.fb.com/...
2022-04-08 View on X
Washington Post

Meta disrupts covert influence operations by Belarus- and Russia-linked actors targeting Ukrainians, like hacking Ukrainian military staff's Facebook accounts

combining computer network exploitation with influence operations, CNE & active measures, in classic terminology (to be expected historically). Meta does an exceptionally good job ...

2022-04-07
Ghostwriter, a Belarusian disinfo operation, tried hacking Ukrainian soldiers' Facebook accounts to post videos encouraging Kyiv to surrender, Meta says. The same outfit previously has spread faked diplomatic letters and doctored tweets from US lawmakers. https://about.fb.com/...
2022-04-07 View on X
Washington Post

Meta disrupts several covert influence operations against Ukraine by Belarus- and Russia-linked actors, including attempts to hack Ukrainian military personnel

Facebook said Thursday it disrupted several covert influence operations targeting Ukrainians, as the company has intensified …

2022-03-26
details in these charges help answer why there hasn't been louder cyberwar since Russia invaded Ukraine. one of many reasons: it's a lot of work to launch a destructive attack. it took three years of prep to build malware that disrupted safety systems. https://www.justice.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-26 View on X
New York Times

The DOJ charges four Russian officials for alleged hacking campaigns from 2012 to 2018 on critical US infrastructure, including a Kansas nuclear power plant

Saturday, March 26, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: DiyGarage SoCal Gary Warner / CyberCrime & Doing Time : Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and CISA/FBI's New Era of Transparency C...

2022-03-25
Said better: Lapsus$ appears to be a gang of SIM-swapping kids, compared to more organized Russian criminal gangs. So, there's a lot of nuance here.
2022-03-25 View on X
BBC

UK police arrest seven people aged 16 to 21 as part of an investigation “into a hacking group”, but did not say if the teenager behind Lapsus$ is among them

A 16-year-old from Oxford has been accused of being one of the leaders of cyber-crime gang Lapsus$.

More typical Russian gangs like Conti, last longer, spending up to a year at a time extorting victims before they shut down, change or self-destruct. I don't have a point, really. This is just a crazy story that feels like a shift in crime tactics. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-03-25 View on X
BBC

UK police arrest seven people aged 16 to 21 as part of an investigation “into a hacking group”, but did not say if the teenager behind Lapsus$ is among them

A 16-year-old from Oxford has been accused of being one of the leaders of cyber-crime gang Lapsus$.