My latest in Foreign Affairs⁩ "The Autocrat in Your iPhone: How Mercenary Spyware Threatens Democracy" foreignaffairs.com/world/autocrat…

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas

SBF is going to make Enron look like nothing by the time this story is done.

USA Damian Williams: Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. Government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the SDNY. We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.

SDNY gets the takedown of SBF:

DOJ just announced support for dropping the Lobbying Disclosure Act exemption to #FARA, one of the most widely used exemptions. It could more than double the # of agents that register under FARA. justice.gov/ola/page/file/…

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Air defenses woke me up, then heard a loud explosion near where I live in central Kyiv. My building’s bomb shelter is full…including several kids who should be getting ready for school, not hiding from Russian missiles or drones or whatever is attacking us this morning.

Forensic News alum 😭 so proud of you buddy Eric Levai

A former Black Cube senior employee created a pitch deck offering spyware in his new company using a Black Cube computer. Always check the metadata: forensicnews.co/little-known-c…

NEWS: I obtained a pitch deck showing that an obscure Cypriot firm run by a former Black Cube senior employee pitched powerful phone/computer hacking tools as recently as 2020. The firm has offices in Dubai and a UAE ruling family member sits on the board: forensicnews.co/little-known-c…

Obscure Cypriot Firm ✅ Black Cube connection ✅ Offices in Dubai ✅ UAE Ruling Family on Board ✅ Just about all the characteristic features of privatized black ops in one big bucket, uncovered by The Citizen Lab fellow Scott Stedman (indefinite hiatus) Forensic News (indefinite hiatus)

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