Thank you Daniel Moore for coming to visit us at the Alperovitch Institute for a tour de force lecture and conversation on weaknesses in military hardware and how countries develop and execute on offensive cyber.

I do not engage here, this platform is an unending river of sewage. Find me either on Bluesky or Threads.

I will say one thing considering the circumstances: be VERY mindful of who - and what - you amplify. For example, Mario's account blends misinfo with official news. Toxic.

This weekend, pro-Russian saboteurs halted more than 20 Polish trains, possibly to hamper Ukraine's war effort. @LukOlejnik figured out how they did it: A 'radio-stop' command anyone can broadcast at a certain frequency with as little as $30 of equipment. wired.com/story/poland-t…

BREAKING NEWS: The NCA has won the Encrochat case at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal regarding the legality of law enforcement's actions in accessing the encrypted messaging platform used by serious organised criminals.

Story to follow.

Wonderful review by Joshua Huminski of Offensive Cyber Operations'!

'It is an antidote to policy and practical ignorance and is truly an instructive work that both practitioners and policymakers would do well to read.'

This was such a fantastic conference last year, and it looks like a killer lineup of speakers for 2023!

Amazing conversation with the fantastic Alex Martin now published! It was such a lovely chat , running the gamut from my own background, thoughts on Russia, and the field of cyber conflict overall.

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BREAKING: Genesis Market, one of the world’s largest platforms for cyber fraud, has just been seized in an FBI-led operation involving more than dozen international partners.

Story here: therecord.media/genesis-market…

A while ago, we got our hands on some fun documents related to a Russian company called NTC Vulkan 🌋 A volcano is basically the opposite of a rabbit hole, but we at Mandiant dove in regardless with hakan Hannes Munzinger & paper trail media 1/x

Meta doesn't just stop at policy recommendations. We constantly work to disrupt operations by spyware vendors and make our apps more secure by raising the bar for these actors. We do this in a few different ways:

Definitely a good read to demystify Offensive Cyber Ops Joshua Huminski

With a ringing endorsement from Thomas Rid & following an excellent event at Johns Hopkins SAIS, I’m belatedly reading Daniel Moore’s fascinating book “Offensive Cyber Operations” (@OxUniPress). Thus far a very insightful (& needed) deconstruction of the lexicon about cyber warfare.

There's going to be an entire field of AI SEO isn't there? With dodgy companies and 9000 YouTube videos about it

Well that's quite a development

My 'For you' feed is now fully random. It used to at least explain WHY I'm seeing a post. Nope. Now it's just 18 threads from randos telling me '🧵10 things that will ignite your thyroid about GPT-4 '

Fair enough. I still say it was *exactly* what I expected. Loud, frequent, with flashes of technical & operational brilliance, rife with unneeded collateral, and consistently sloppy on the last mile.

[narrator] It was a cracked Cobalt Strike

Some practical thoughts on tackling proliferation in offensive cyber!

Special thanks to Winnona 💾 for getting me involved!

The call for Hague TIX abstracts is now open! Submit your talk proposal using the link below #HagueTIX2023 (PS this year we’re on the beach)

1/ Today we reported on our work to protect public debate and people’s ability to connect during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and mass protests in Iran. We also shared our Q4 2022 transparency reports, including Adversarial Threat Report. about.fb.com/news/2023/02/p…