Dear GRU, a bit dumb to try to phish-hack exactly the journos who just outed your largest black-op ever. You might have waited a day or two. And generally you might improve your phishing tradecraft. A .ru hop-over server? Bumbling idiots.
Yeah, keep them coming :)
Am I officially allowed now to hack back into GRU accounts?
So far do good, I am getting Putin's electoral result in Chechnya.
Meantime, a special shout-out to the GRU colonel who set up a password reminder question "My mother's maiden name", but because he has no registered father, that's also his last name....
Oh no, GRU killer with username destroyer2015@****, your security question is **check screen** your parents' zip code?
Oh no, not your parents postal code...how will I ever guess that. What's that, your parents still live with you?
GRU Maj. General:
"Hm... there's NO fucking way they can guess moskva4"
Yes, sure, Colonel, signing up for Runtastic under your cover name is a great idea...this way you, and only you, will know where you're running while on assignment in Geneva.
..and my favorite phishing mail by far.. received by a colleague. Sadly it's so bad that it can't be a state actor ...
"Hm... He's been making fun of our terrible email phishing tricks. Any ideas how to respond?"
"How about a terrible phishing attack via @telegram?"
"Great idea! You're a colonel now"
Multichannel marketing ftw
"Knock-knock.. please let us in!!!"
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I've been reporting to @Meta fake profiles that impersonate me on Facebook. Meta refuses to remove the impersonators, for some inscrutable reason considering impersonation of an investigative journalist to *not* be a violation or their terms. This is irresponsible and dangerous.
. Not only did @Meta not remove the impersonators, but are *actively* pushing them to people. This is a fake account created in 2021. Facebook is suggesting to someone to add this fake person as their friend. Just imagine the risks from this irresponsible behavior.
@Meta To my real account, I constantly get unsolicited tips from whistleblowers who trust me. Imagine what would happen if/when a whistleblower contacts a fake account created by a bad state actor. @Meta is not simply helping spread disinformation, it's actively endangering lives.
Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, claims he was poisoned in 2018 (symptoms he describes are indeed are consistent with nerve agents/organoposphates). He chose "not to tell my colleagues so I wouldn't scare them"
I believe him this happened. Sadly, he didn't volunteer information on where this happened (I wish he had, so we could triangulate the usual suspects - in 2018 he was a MAJOR thorn in the side of Russian authorities). But thanks to leaked databases we can have some guesses.
Based on leaked travel data, he spent most of the time in 2018 in Dubai, interspersed with stays in Switzerland, France and the UK. Interestingly (likely coincidentally), he left the UK for Dubai a day after the Skripal poisoners left London for Moscow.
In our new investigation into Russia's use of children for their military drone program, crucial evidence came from @tashurkevich's undercover phone calls. Here are some of the most striking confessions she extracted.
What are the tasks assigned to the kids? Well they sound like things from Ender's Game (link to full investigation here: )
Here Tatsiana calls "Maksim" who explains the kids' "oath of silence" in mentioning the war.
If anyone had any doubts about the subvertive nature of Chinese AI freebies, here's a good example.
I decided to ask @deepseek_ai to do a mundane job: edit the text of a recent @the_ins_ru article to make it more vocal-delivery friendly, so we can record it as a podcast. SFSG.
Here's the beginning of the original article that DeepSeek totally promised would not alter, but for style edits
And here's the offered text that I almost choked while reading out to my daughter.
NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one. . However, this seems half the problem (1/n)nbcnews.com/world/russia/r…
Here's the video released by the Kremlin. It clearly shows Witkoff pointing at the young woman and asking "Interpreter?", to which Putin & Co say "yes". Following that, cryptically Witkoff asks "from Embassy?", to which he again gets a confirmation.
So what embassy is the interpreter from? Obviously there's no Russian embassy in Moscow (unless Witkoff thinks so), so a logical conclusion is that he was assured she was, hm, sent by or approved by the US embassy? Anyway, let's look at who she is.
Serbian opposition activists post photo of what is alleged to be a police Jeep with a mounted long range acoustic device. Visual and audio evidence already seen from open sources is compatible with the use of such devices. If this photo is verified then there's no doubt anymore.
This is especially ridiculous given that Russia's man in Belgrade, Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin, publicly thanked Russian intelligence for "helping quash color revolution attempts" in Serbia. I.e. any use of sonic weapon would've been coordinated with/done by RU intel to begin with
And a reminder that Unit 29155 of GRU, whose members are very frequent visitors to Belgrade, spent years researching "potential capabilities of non-lethal acoustic weapon in urban warfare"