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Shelby Grossman

@shelbygrossman
17 posts
2024-12-30
Love that WSJ is on the pig butchering scam beat.  Wild details here, including that a co-founder of the firm running the scam previously ran...a pig farm. www.wsj.com/world/asia/h...
2024-12-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Law enforcement officials worldwide say Chinese mafia boss Wan Kuok-koi, aka Broken Tooth, has played a central role in the emergence of “pig butchering” scams

Chinese mobster known as Broken Tooth is sanctioned by U.S. but remains free, selling swag and cutting ribbons Bluesky: @toferh . X: @kleptocracyintv and @jchengwsj . Forums: r/geo...

Love that WSJ is on the pig butchering scam beat.  Wild details here, including that a co-founder of the firm running the scam previously ran...a pig farm. www.wsj.com/world/asia/h...
2024-12-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Philippine investigators say Alice Guo, ex-mayor of the Bamban town, owned the land on which a “pig butchering” scam center was built, housing ~3,000 scammers

most of them Chinese—slept between shifts as scammers. Nearby, police seized thousands of devices with fake social-media profiles and financial records. https://www.wsj.com/... Jon...

2022-08-25
📢 New joint report out from my team & @Graphika_NYC. We analyzed suspended pro-U.S. influence operations on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. The target? People in the Middle East and Central Asia. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/ ...
2022-08-25 View on X
Stanford Internet Observatory

Researchers detail a pro-US, five-year influence operation on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms in the Middle East and Central Asia

Stanford Internet Observatory :

2) Some accounts had profile photos made from doctored images of actors and models, some collages of multiple images! https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-25 View on X
Stanford Internet Observatory

Researchers detail a pro-US, five-year influence operation on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms in the Middle East and Central Asia

Stanford Internet Observatory :

2022-04-08
There's a lot of interesting stuff here. An operation originating in Russia that did mass reporting of Ukrainians. Details on opportunistic spammers leveraging the conflict for 💰. GAN profile photos still seem popular. Cyber attacks + CIB. https://twitter.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 ...

Meta helpfully lists some of the CIB-linked domains at the end of the report. Monitor-ua[dot]com is an interesting one. The domain has at least two GAN reporters will developed bios. Here's one (original on left, translation on right) https://twitter.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 ...

I think my main takeaway is still that the conflict hasn't seen many novel disinformation tactics.
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 ...

2021-12-13
CW: Suicide This is an important article highlighting search engines' role in directing people to pro-suicide websites. Co-authors & I recently published an article auditing search engine performance on suicide queries in @journalsafetech https://tsjournal.org/... Key findings: https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-13 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: a site providing directions on how to die is linked to at least ~45 suicides, as Google and Bing refuse to remove it absent a legal requirement

2021-12-12
CW: Suicide This is an important article highlighting search engines' role in directing people to pro-suicide websites. Co-authors & I recently published an article auditing search engine performance on suicide queries in @journalsafetech https://tsjournal.org/... Key findings: https://twitter.com/...
2021-12-12 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: a site providing directions on how to die is linked to at least ~45 suicides, as Google and Bing refuse to remove it absent a legal requirement

It has the trappings of popular social media, a young audience and explicit content on suicide that other sites don't allow.

2020-12-16
The Facebook network (and Twitter accounts - Twitter suspended sockpuppet accounts adjacent to the FB activity) posted lots about the two Russian prisoners in Libya (released last week). One Page existed to hype a film about them. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-16 View on X
Washington Post

Facebook says people linked to France's military used fake accounts to meddle in African politics, tangling with similar efforts by Russia's IRA in some nations

and Africa in the middle of it. https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : These tactics are most commonly associated with the Russian government ...

✨Today Facebook announced the suspension of 3 networks targeting people in Africa: One linked to people associated w/ the French military targeting CAR/Mali, one linked to former IRA actors targeting CAR, and another linked to former IRA actors targeting Libya, Sudan, and Syria.
2020-12-16 View on X
Washington Post

Facebook says people linked to France's military used fake accounts to meddle in African politics, tangling with similar efforts by Russia's IRA in some nations

and Africa in the middle of it. https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : These tactics are most commonly associated with the Russian government ...

The operation appears to have franchised some activities out to the Libyan National Army's Moral Guidance Department media staff. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-16 View on X
Washington Post

Facebook says people linked to France's military used fake accounts to meddle in African politics, tangling with similar efforts by Russia's IRA in some nations

and Africa in the middle of it. https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : These tactics are most commonly associated with the Russian government ...

2020-10-02
This is a really fascinating and thoughtfully written post about an online child role playing game where account profile photos were stolen images of real children. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-02 View on X
Stanford Cyber Policy Center

Researchers detail communities of accounts on Instagram and Twitter that role play with stolen images of minors, sometimes to sexualize children

Stanford Cyber Policy Center : Tweets: @shelbygrossman , @alexstamos , and @carlymil Tweets: Shelby Grossman / @shelbygrossman : This is a really fascinating and thoughtfully writ...

2019-10-31
Today Facebook removed dozens of Facebook Pages that my Stanford Internet Observatory team has spent the past few weeks analyzing. The Pages are attributed to entities linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, and targeted 6 African countries. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/ ...
2019-10-31 View on X
New York Times

Facebook outlines actions taken against “inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia and targeting African countries, including Sudan, Libya, and Madagascar

and with the help of Facebook/FSBook, of course. I hope Africa is at least trying to stop this, because this is war. Russia wants Africa. https://twitter.com/... Michael Weiss / @m...

Libya: This operation - the one operation we attribute to Wagner Group - supported 2 potential future political competitors. It had Egyptian Page managers. The most interesting Pages included Gaddafi nostalgia content, like this Page. These Pages bolstered Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. pic.twitter.com/E78dOOP8ZQ
2019-10-31 View on X
New York Times

Facebook outlines actions taken against “inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia and targeting African countries, including Sudan, Libya, and Madagascar

and with the help of Facebook/FSBook, of course. I hope Africa is at least trying to stop this, because this is war. Russia wants Africa. https://twitter.com/... Michael Weiss / @m...

2019-10-30
Today Facebook removed dozens of Facebook Pages that my Stanford Internet Observatory team has spent the past few weeks analyzing. The Pages are attributed to entities linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, and targeted 6 African countries. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/ ...
2019-10-30 View on X
New York Times

Facebook outlines actions taken against “inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia and targeting African countries, including Sudan, Libya, and Madagascar

Facebook said it removed three Russian-backed influence networks aimed at African countries.

Libya: This operation - the one operation we attribute to Wagner Group - supported 2 potential future political competitors. It had Egyptian Page managers. The most interesting Pages included Gaddafi nostalgia content, like this Page. These Pages bolstered Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. pic.twitter.com/E78dOOP8ZQ
2019-10-30 View on X
New York Times

Facebook outlines actions taken against “inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia and targeting African countries, including Sudan, Libya, and Madagascar

Facebook said it removed three Russian-backed influence networks aimed at African countries.