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Nov 2, 2024 17 tweets 5 min read Read on X
I have identified 28 bots targeting intel/mil/geopol/logistics/energy people. They reply, follow and quote and are most often very enthusiastic.

End game is unknown, but a guess is recruitment or information gathering. Maybe just influence.

Anyway, here they are, in network shape.Image
Some of the texts the excited intel-bots produce and post to other users.

Will eventually be released in a more sane format.
In this thread I started collecting the excited intel-bots. Lots of examples of what they post and how I differentiate them.
One of the intel bots in the network, trying to slide into the DM's of @stevehouf, a business researcher with @business and with several connections to academia.

Wonder if they continued in DM. Did you @stevehouf ? Image
This is much meta. An excited intel-bot warning @chrismartenson of PeakProsperity to not fall for phishing. Image
Another excited intel-bot, airing his worries about email privacy to @cyb_detective

Note the enthusiasm in the reply, typical for this breed of bots. Image
@NOELreports is popular target of the intel bot network, especially one of them is a keen poster to them.

In this case it is military commentary, mostly in strong favour of Ukraine. Image
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”who knows, you might have a senior NATO-officer on the hook a few sentences later!”

This is just a first thread.

Much more analysis and anecdotes to come.
Since summarizing the accounts of the excited intel bots 2 days ago a 1/4 has closed. Most had been active since early August.

Ie, they might know I am on to them. Thats right, hide mfers.
The excited intel bots are trying to hide, but I found a way of finding them in hiding. And I have already found 100's more.
Some activity from last hours, excited intel bots appreciating some racist DOD merch and engaging analyis of both old maps and Tory's future. Image
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@Disfosgen @FlorianGallwitz @FlorianGallwitz data^ will be available soon

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Aug 22
Stockholm-Helsinki ferry SILJA SERENADE made a sharp turn for unknown reasons night between Tu & We. Owner claims weather and collision avoidance. There were damages to loose items.

But there was no other ship on AIS, no sharp turn registered and weather was calm. Image
Calm weather is substantiated by an anonymous maritime professional witness to YLE.

Heavy jamming? Malfunctions? Dark ship in the way? Submarine? Possible explanations are many but the one from the ferry company seem unfinished.

Tnx @akihheikkinen!

yle.fi/a/74-20178772Image
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@akihheikkinen Possibly related: last week American special forces exercised close to another ferry on the route.

alandstidningen.ax/nyheter/okanda…

businessinsider.com/swccs-operate-…
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Jul 15
Russian destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov fended of a drone threat Monday in Fehmarn Belt, Baltic Sea, Danish EEZ.

The large ship made evasive maneuvers, employed some anti-drone machine and manned and aimed lighter guns.

All according to local news: archive.is/G5kotImage
DK Navy observed. Thanks anon follower.
As the Russian destroyer made high speed maneuvers with machine guns ready to fire she was surrounded by both commercial and leisure ship traffic.

In her immediate vicinity at most likely incident time were two large tankers and at least 5 sail boats. A few miles of Denmark.
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Jul 2
Swedish maritime authority just posted maybe their most extensive interference warning to date.

Even radar is now seeing interference, besides more familiar GNSS, AIS and DGPS.

Radar is the single most important navigational aid on ships, particularly in cases of lost GPS/GNSS. Image
Source:

And on the NAVTEX terminals. navvarn.sjofartsverket.se/Navigationsvar…Image
Read 5 tweets
Jun 29
South Baltic sea is experiencing a newish type of GNSS-jamming. It is affecting units at sea level far and wide, much further than one ground based jammer can reach.

The most intense attack so far took place as the political elite of Denmark and 100k visitors met at Bornholm.
Data for animation above is the signal levels that RINEX stations receive from various GNSS-constellations.
Last year a limited span of frequencies were affected. 2025 all frequencies/bands are affected. BeiDou, not illustrated (noisy).

The Bornholm station is used as example. Image
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Looking per station we can see the geographic and temporal reach.

South-east corner of Baltic is affected (but not all stations!) and with an intensified period right now.

It is also evident that the ongoing 2025 attacks result in a much more degraded signal to noise ratio. Image
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Feb 15
There is an estimated 1 in 10k-100k years chance that all 8 of the Nov 2024 - Jan 2025 Baltic Sea cable breaks are coincidental.
Data is hard to get by but no matter which real data or reasonable assumption one picks it is very unlikely all 8 of them are explained by chance.
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Illustration of a 1 in 108 908 years chance that all 8 of the Nov 2024 - Jan 2025 Baltic Sea cable breaks happens with present background levels. Above is 1 in 10 609 years illustrated. Image
Two alternative ways of illustrating the extremely low probability of the Baltic Cable breaks being normal. Red dots in each, promise! Image
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Jan 19
Washington Post has again managed to find anon sources saying Russia is not doing bad things in the Baltic Sea.

They got the infographic quite wrong, so I fixed it.

They also have a named source, within mil intel, completely contradicting their headline.

Nice one WaPo! Image
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Washington Post today presented a wholly incomplete infographics on Baltic Sea infrastructure incidents.

Actually damaged structures: 13, presented by WaPo as 4-5.

Actual # incidents: 4, WaPo found 3.

Here is the fix. Image
According to WaPo and their anons "there is an emerging consensus that it is all accidents"

Yet officials in actual positions are ordering very expensive and resource intensive mission as we speak.

Article archived: archive.is/7JcKG
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