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Raphael Satter
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Writer @Reuters. https://t.co/53Prw04PC7
Jun 30, 2022 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
For at least a decade, an interlocking set of Indian APT groups has been hacking lawyers & litigants on behalf of Western private eyes.

Their goal? Winning lawsuits & arbitration battles.

@specialreports takes a look at India's cyber mercenary industry.
reuters.com/investigates/s… These hack-for-hire groups have long been tracked by big tech firms, threat intel shops & the sharp-eyed folks @citizenlab.

Lately, researchers have become bolder about calling them out — among them those @Google, who’re publishing a blog post today:
blog.google/threat-analysi…
Mar 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The FCC has added AO Kaspersky Lab to its list of 'communications equipment and services deemed a threat to U.S. national security,' reports @davidshepardson

Story on the @Reuters wire
fcc.gov/document/annou… The FCC press release:
Mar 25, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Day 30: Thread on cybersecurity & propaganda news related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦 ⚡️💻 1️⃣
Mar 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Two important stories here:
(1) Far-right EU lawmakers are getting direction from Moscow, including in one case included a proposed amendment to an EU legislative motion (!)
(2) *Someone* has gotten hold of & is distributing Russian insiders' emails to the press. That *someone* is the @dossier_center -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky's London-based leak-and-analysis outfit.

I've done reporting based on Dossier's material before, for example here: apnews.com/article/d093a0…
Mar 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Day 29: Thread on cybersecurity & propaganda news related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦 ⚡️💻 1️⃣
Mar 24, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Day 28: Thread on cybersecurity & propaganda news related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦 ⚡️💻 1️⃣
Mar 7, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I’d like to do daily roundups of cyber coverage, reports, and developments related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. See something? Flag it to me and I’ll add it to the thread. 🇺🇦 ⚡️💻

Here what I’ve seen today so far: 1️⃣
Mar 2, 2022 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
As digital nastiness erupts over Ukraine, I want to share the story of how a Russian cyberespionage campaign was exposed back in 2015-2017. It involves a Ukrainian activist, a German academic, a @Secureworks researcher & (eventually) me. The story starts with @oxana_tinko of @InformNapalm, an OSINT-focused group created in the aftermath of Russia’s 2014 intervention in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
Feb 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Satellite problems caused by a suspected cyberattack are interfering with a German energy provider's ability to manage thousands of wind turbines. The turbines are spinning as normal for now but it's an illustration of how weird it can get when you start knocking things over. Here's our story so far; we'll update as we get more clarity on what exactly happened: reuters.com/business/energ…
Feb 18, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
In 1999, a series of mysterious overnight explosions damaged or destroyed four apartment buildings in Moscow, Buynaksk, and Volgodonsk. More than 300 people were killed - many as they slept peacefully with their families. The atrocities were blamed on religious extremists operating from the breakaway republic of Chechnya.

Russia's new prime minister, Vladimir Putin, said the Chechens responsible for the bombings should be squashed like vermin.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme…
Feb 17, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Some great reporting out just *today* that highlights just how far cybersecurity journalism has come in the past few years. A thread: 🧵 -@rj_gallagher at @Bloomberg has blown the lid off the elite club of zero-click hackers, firms that can invisibly compromise your smartphone without you ever having to open a link or download an attachment. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Jan 31, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The most crazy-making part of this is that Mark Levin repeatedly refers to Gingrich as a historian. If you're curious, the two house speakers-turned-traitor are Robert Hunter of Georgia, who went on to serve as Confederate Secretary of State, and Howell Cobb, who became a Maj. Gen. in the Confederate Army.

history.house.gov/People/Detail/…
history.house.gov/People/Detail/…
Jan 31, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Fox's Mark Levin calls the Capitol rioters "nutjobs" and "head cases," saying that if Trump really wanted to mount a coup he would've ordered the troops to storm Congress.

He's not a fan of impeachment, I think. Levin is a fan of the word "nutjob." He says social media is full of them.

Black Lives Matter is a "Marxist-Anarchist organization which has its mission to overthrow the United States" apparently.
Jan 30, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
It's Saturday, so I'm relaxing by watching Fox.

A couple minutes and I can think of more audacious assaults on American civil liberties than whatever Tucker Carlson is talking about. Tucker says former CIA director John Brennan is accusing Fox viewers of being terrorists.

"You just saw the clip! That's what he said!" (It's not what he said.)
Jan 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Deepfake stonks

Among those complaining about @RobinhoodApp's restrictions on $GME trades is "Jorge Bergoglio."

Jorge, I gotta ask - where did you get that awesome collar?!

(h/t @GiorgioPatrini)

#Deepfakesinthewild
ImageImage Test-driving @sensityai's platform on this image. Their verdict? >95% likely to be a StyleGAN Image
Jan 22, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Deepfake dentistry.

Meet Alena Shpak and Inga Kolomiets. They're professionals who write "real reviews" of dental clinics in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

@sensityai says they're 99 percent likely to be Style GANs.

#Deepfakesinthewild
stomatolog.dp.ua/about/ Using deepfakes for a dentistry website is a particularly odd move because StyleGANs do a notoriously uneven job with rendering teeth.

"Alena's" teeth actually look OK, but her right ear looks like it was partially dissolved in acid.
Dec 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
MI6 and GCHQ may have illegally authorized informants to commit serious crimes in the UK, Britain's spy court said in a newly disclosed judgment.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/d… Earlier this year it was revealed that MI6 had approached the same court and asked it to suppress potentially relevant material.
Dec 16, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
I'm watching the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs' hearing on "Irregularities in the 2020 Election"

Chairman Johnson speaking now. Johnson now rereading letters sent by other senators raising issues with voting machines - correctly notes that there've been longstanding concerns with electronic voting.
Dec 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Scoop: Technicians at the African Union discovered in Jan. that suspected Chinese hackers have been stealing security camera footage from their campus.

"We cannot estimate the quantity and value of the data which have been stolen," an internal memo says. reut.rs/3oPlgsa The Chinese response to my reporting: 🇨🇳

“China is a staunch upholder of cybersecurity”

“We never interfere in Africa’s internal affairs.”
Dec 15, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Recently SolarWinds' CEO boasted about his company's reach:

“We don’t think anyone else in the market is really even close in terms of the breadth of coverage we have [...] We manage everyone’s network gear.”

Our look at the firm at the center of it all:
reuters.com/article/global… (deleted the previous tweet because of a formatting error.)
Dec 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
New: Here's the retraction demand sent Friday to @FoxNews by voting tech company Smartmatic - featuring nearly 20 pages of eye-popping claims floated by guests and hosts alike.
documentcloud.org/documents/7338… ImageImageImageImage The conspiracies vary, but most have already been debunked by fact checkers, including those at @Reuters - for example here: uk.reuters.com/article/uk-fac…
and here: uk.reuters.com/article/uk-fac…