NEW: Haaretz.com and inside story. reveal a scary new attack techniques offered by spyware-vendor Intellexa.

Intellexa's Aladdin product uses malicious web ad's to target and silent infect targets as they simply browse the web.

Eine Bande von Online-Trollen terrorisiert seit Jahren Politiker und Prominente. Mit falschen Notrufen schicken sie Polizeieinheiten zu ihren Opfern. Nun enttarnen DER SPIEGEL & Kontraste die Maschen der Kriminellen. spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/m… #NWO

Heading to Warsaw to speak at Mixer Festival tomorrow about investigating datasets. I’ll present the recent investigation into LAION-5B by Jer Thorp and me. Published on DER SPIEGEL and Knowing Machines. knowingmachines.org/models-all-the… and spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/l…

'I chose journalism, then wars chose me. Exposing war crimes — wherever they occur — is central to my identity as an American, a journalist and a Jew.'

From my latest article in the Washington Post (gift link)-- washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Kremlin trolls have written 1000s of fabricated news articles, social media posts & comments that promote US isolationism, stir fear over border security & attempt to amplify US economic & racial tensions, according to Kremlin documents. w/Joseph Menn washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

#XZUtils

the xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper. I was just able to trigger some harder to reach functionality of the backdoor. there's still more to explore.. 1/n

Wie erwartet: Universität Salzburg bestätigt Doktortitel für Journalistin ⁦A. Föderl-Schmid⁩ - Medien - derStandard.at › Etat derstandard.at/story/30000002…

Huge embarrassment to Brigadier-General Yossi Sariel the commander of the prestigious Israeli intelligence unit 8200. The Guardian exposes his full name following a book which Sariel himself authored in 2021. He wrote a book about AI under his name's acronym as YS and published…

'The IDF cell tracking the [aid] vehicles fired lethal precision-guided missiles into each car, one after the other. Through blurred nighttime surveillance footage, they saw what they thought was a man carrying a gun and assumed he was a Hamas fighter.' news.sky.com/story/grave-mi…

BREAKING !🚨 Predatory prison telecom Securus just defaulted on over $1Bn in debt. Despite raking in over $700M each year, Securus can no longer pay its own creditors.

We published this in The Appeal today to explain how we got here and what it means. theappeal.org/securus-bankru…

Our latest SCOOP: Cyber Review board faults Microsoft for ‘cascade’ of errors in China hack that caught up Commerce Secty Raimondo and other top officials. w/Joseph Menn wapo.st/4cJpKtW

🚨 SCOOP 🚨

In unprecedented warrants, US agents repeatedly asked Google to provide names, addresses, phone numbers of ALL users who watched certain YouTube videos.

The vids have thousands of views.

'Terrifying' and 'unconstitutional,' say critics.

forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

SCOOP: U.S. told Russia that Crocus City Hall was a possible target of attack. The specific information contradicts Moscow’s claims that U.S. intelligence was too general to have helped preempt the ISIS assault, which killed more than 140 people. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

One of the best reporters on this beat

News🔥Austrian ex-intelligence officer Egisto O. is suspected of spying for #Russia . In November 2022 an encrypted laptop ended up with the FSB in Moscow. The delivery was apparently organized by Jan Marsalek - with help from #Berlin . Our report: tagesschau.de/investigativ/n… #Austria

Briefly, I want to address the issue of who is to blame. Easy — the people behind the attack. Lasse, the maintainer of xz, was the target of a patient intelligence campaign that invested more resources into subverting him than anyone invested into his project.

This thing Facebook did — running an MITM on Snapchat and other competitors’ TLS connections via their Onavo VPN — is so deeply messed up and evil that it completely changes my perspective on what that company is willing to do to its users.