Oh look... ChatGPT sniffing Russian disinformation up its nose 700 times in 5 days
Exactly what researchers have warned about for more than a year but have been told to take a hike
buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...
Hakan Tanriverdi with a great, brief writeup on linking 100+ Doppelganger/SDA domains thanks to a single unique string in their Wordpress setup.
Highly recommend you go follow/subscribe if you have not already. He's been putting out fantastic cyber work.
lexomnium registered with roygeneral@proton.me
lebelligerant registered with roygeneral@proton.me
brennendefrage registered with roygeneral@proton.me
deintelligenz registered with roygeneral@proton.me
Shoutout to the reader/researcher who reached out to say that all of the four su-domains showing up are registered with the same mail address
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Short newsletter item about one mistake from disinfo operations #Doppelgänger that makes it possible to tie together >100 domains
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"A formerly legitimate Featured Chrome extension (ShotBird) was turned into a remote-controlled malware channel after an apparent ownership transfer"
Curious if this is another case of an extension being sold on ExtensionHub again? A place to watch...
monxresearch-sec.github.io/shotbird-ext...
"Two former employees of government contractor L3Harris told TechCrunch that Coruna was, at least in part, developed by the company’s hacking and surveillance tech division, Trenchant."
techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/a...
“You think that if they knew about the extent of the data collection, no one would dare to use the glasses”.
www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
"both pro- and anti-Kremlin bloggers from Russia started referring to Mr. Trump’s plan as “Tehran in three days.” It was a reference to “Kyiv in three days,” the ironic shorthand used to describe the Kremlin’s hubris in believing that Ukraine would quickly crumble."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...
“We have nothing for you on this at this time,” CENTCOM said.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
If China is confirmed to be responsible for the breach, it would signal the latest intrusion by Beijing’s hackers of computer systems related to law-enforcement surveillance orders, which contain highly sensitive material.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
"The former Russian intelligence officer, who had been briefed on the topic, said Russia was only giving a limited amount of intelligence information derived from its satellites to Iran"
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
A huge tip of the hat to the NYTimes, the CBC, the BBC, Reuters and others for being absolutely all over this school bombing and piecing together the truth of what happened -- www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict? Context is everything. That’s why we built Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical flight data to allow researchers to explore flight patterns over time and in specific locations. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
Not even mentioned in passing is the school that was bombed.
Given that it was adjacent to local Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) barracks, the "precise location" provided by Claude seems to be the essence.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
"Die Chats zeigen, wie detailliert die Informationen waren, die Marsalek zur Verfügung standen – und wie penibel der Österreicher Angriffe auf heimische Beamte und profil-Chefredakteurin Anna Thalhammer geplant hatte. "
www.profil.at/investigativ...
Leaked documents provide a frightful look into the Iranian regime's surveillance apparatus.
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In case you want to hear me speak in German
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🇮🇷👁️[New investigation] #EyesOfIran : breaking the code of Iran’s surveillance system.
War, unrest… and a sophisticated mass-surveillance weapon.
youtube.com/shorts/_cxri...
@forbidden-stories.bsky.social @lemonde.fr @papertrailmedia.de @spiegel.de
@derstandard.at @heuteshow.de Tamedia
doch, doch, poste noch, brauche noch ein wenig!
US-Präsident Trump fordert die Iraner auf, das Regime zu stürzen. Doch die Führung in Teheran hat einen gigantischen Überwachungsapparat erschaffen. SPIEGEL-Recherchen gewähren Einblick in das Spähsystem der Mullahs.
Irans Regime wankt, doch ob es fällt, ist unklar. Über Jahre hat die Islamische Republik einen gigantischen Überwachungsapparat aufgebaut. Die #EyesOfIran-Recherchen gewähren nun Einblicke in das Spähsystem der Mullahs. www.spiegel.de/ausland/iran...
We spoke with a dozen people who know the regime, either because they had to flee after being imprisoned or from a technical point of view.
All of this, and more, you can find in our reporting,
#EyesOfIran
www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausl... (video, 10 min)
We have obtained videos showing the software in a live-scenario, at metro stations in Teheran. We have contracts, and we have had a look at the code, built by the Russian company Ntechlab.
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
If you're following the situation in Iran, this one is of interest to you.
We can prove how the regime in Iran is using facial recognition software to surveil its citizens.
(Gift link)
www.spiegel.de/ausland/iran...
DomainTools Investigations researchers have spent the past several weeks pulling apart data from Russian threat actor Doppelganger to analyze recent campaigns and explore its technical and organizational structures.
#infosec #threatintel #cybersecurity
dti.domaintools.com/research/dop...
„Israel was also able to disrupt single components of roughly a dozen or so mobile phone towers near Pasteur Street, making the phones seem as if they were busy when called and stopping Khamenei’s protection detail from receiving possible warnings.“
www.ft.com/content/bf99...
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
