🇰🇬We stand with journalists jailed in Kyrgyzstan. Investigative journalism in an oppressive regime takes courage. We are calling for the release of our colleagues! #FreeKyrgyz11 FRONTSTORY.PL DelfiEE atlatszo.hu INVESTIGATÍVNE CENTRUM JÁNA KUCIAKA investigace_cz Siena Re:Baltica

💻 Cytrox makes millions exporting the Predator spyware. Until last summer, its director, who was legally responsible for this company, was a Czech pensioner – unbeknownst to her. Read the investigation by FRONTSTORY.PL and investigace_cz’s reporters: vsquare.org/predator-cytro…

We are a registered hiking club in Germany, mostly Syrians from all over Germany.
We went on a hike in Saxony Switzerland today and came back to our hostel to find police waiting for us.
Someone called police that a group of foreigners was seen and reported as illegal refugees!

New from the #NarcoFiles : read about how a relatively amateur Dutch hacker infiltrated Europe's main maritime ports and sold valuable intel to cocaine smugglers. A collaboration between Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and investigace_cz: occrp.org/en/narcofiles-…

🕵️ NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order is the largest investigative journalism project on organized crime to originate in Latin America.

❓ How did 40+ media outlets come together to investigate organized crime and those who fight it?

👇 Read to find out: occrp.org/en/narcofiles-…

Wow this is SHIT-HOT reporting by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and partners, who've managed to track a shipment of cocaine around the world, showing how global gangs worked together to smuggle and reap the profits.

cdn.occrp.org/projects/narco…

New: authorities have arrested Hakan Ayik, a top tier drug trafficker turned “encryption king.” He was the guy who told cartels what encrypted phone to use. I spoke to multiple associates of his: they thought he was “untouchable.” 404media.co/associates-rea…

🚨SCOOP: My new @Haaretzcom investigation reveals new Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the heart of the online economy - ads - not just for mass surveillance, but also to hack phones 👇

haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

I’ve found myself on Guardian sport for the second time this year. Always a pleasure to contribute to The Gentleman Ultra alongside some great writers.

Je těžké sehnat mulu na peníze s českým bankovním účtem? Ani ne, stačí otevřít Telegram🤷‍♀️ investigace.cz/telegram-je-no…

to anyone who thinks bot-written articles—on gizmodo or anywhere else—are meant for humans. they’re not. they’re meant for other bots

Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’ theguardian.com/science/2023/j…

NEW: The global supply chain for digital surveillance tech is growing thanks to Russian companies building tools to track people online and on phones. One tool logs metadata for calls on encrypted apps like Signal & WhatsApp. w/Aaron Krolik & Paul Mozur 孟建國
nytimes.com/2023/07/03/tec…

🧵I spent 50+ hours in #trains in past few weeks travelling to/through Belgium, Austria, Germany, France & Italy - here’s what I learned ⤵️

1. Italian trains are by far most comfortable (space, socket & food) but also most punctual, followed by French and last Deutsche Bahn ❌

NEW INVESTIGATION🚨: exposing zero-click mercenary #spyware company #QuaDream .

Victims include journalists, opposition politicians, an NGO worker...

Many countries w/suspected operators.

THREAD 1/
citizenlab.ca/2023/04/spywar…

That “personal benefit test” has been inconsistently applied both during and after the Trump presidency, it seems. 20-30% lower white-collar enforcement actions. Post-Blaszczak ruling quite uncertain.

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“There is plainly a link between the work which is undertaken by the detainees and the potential for a reduction in the centre operators’ overheads”

a “director of technical reconnaissance — the unit responsible for cybersecurity and surveilling electronic communications.”… “arrested on charges of treason and spying for Russia in one of the gravest espionage scandals in recent German history.” Astonishing.