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New: #Ukraine bracing for new round of #Russia|n cyber attacks targeting its energy, financial sectors, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Georgii Dubynskyi tells reporters
"We saw this scenario before-before the winter they [#Russia] are trying to find a way how to undermine, how to defeat our energy system & how to make circumstances even more severe for Ukrainians" per Dubynskyi
#Russia also trying to employ "precision" #cyberattacks
"Using social engineering & using some traitors...so it's also possible #hybrid attacks as well" per Dubynskyi
"Using social engineering & using some traitors...so it's also possible #hybrid attacks as well" per Dubynskyi
We now know what we could only have guessed: several EU governments have built surveillance states with the #Pegasus cyberweapon. /1 
Today, at an international press conference in the European Parliament, we showed how allegedly the #Spanish state, along with the #Polish and #Hungarian governments, are massively monitoring their own citizens without any court order or understandable reason. /2
For readers in India, a critical story breaking from @tomer_ganon of the @calcalist in Israel. Turns our #Pegasus was also used by Israeli Police to target not only activists and journalists, but also CEOs and politicians. #thread #surveillance
Here is an English report published in the @haaretzcom that details the @calcalist story for readers in India. Some of the names on the list will stun you.
haaretz.com/israel-news/ca…
haaretz.com/israel-news/ca…
According to the Israeli media report, even the son of former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu became an unwilling target as his phone was infected. The phone was occasionally being used by the PM's wife. Imagine the level of security breach.
Given everything that’s been happening in the world, I think it’s time to revisit the subject of #ActiveMeasures.
Not just for Soviets anymore.
A 🧵.
#USpoli #cdnpoli #UKPolitics #EUpolitics #nzpol #auspoI #Brexit
Not just for Soviets anymore.
A 🧵.
#USpoli #cdnpoli #UKPolitics #EUpolitics #nzpol #auspoI #Brexit
When the Kremlin launched its weaponization of social media prior to 🇺🇸 2016 election, there was great concern that other malignant actors would quickly adopt these techniques.
They did.
They did.
Now, not only state-actor operations, but for-hire malign influence operations are reaching epidemic proportions as well, in countries around the world. (nytimes.com/2021/07/25/wor…) #disinformation #propaganda #ActiveMeasures
Playing with #DigitalFire:
1/7: In martial arts, one of the best moves is to take an attacker's weapon and turn it back on them. In 2016, that's just what #Beijing did – in #cyberspace:
nyti.ms/2Ylm3E3
1/7: In martial arts, one of the best moves is to take an attacker's weapon and turn it back on them. In 2016, that's just what #Beijing did – in #cyberspace:
nyti.ms/2Ylm3E3
2/7: After #American operatives used a particular bit of code to attack #Chinese computer systems, Chinese hackers took it, repurposed it, and used it to attack a bunch of US allies.
3/7: The Chinese simply seem to have spotted a #US #cyberintrusion and snatched the code, often developed at huge expense to #American taxpayers.
