SCOOP: The iPhone mass hacking toolkit used by Russian spies was developed at U.S. military contractor L3Harris, former employees said.
The Coruna toolkit was used against Ukrainians and by Chinese cybercriminals, according to Google. But the toolkit was initially developed for Western governments.
Britain is the latest country to be plunged into yet another espionage scandal after an MP’s husband was arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Beijing’s long been known for its ‘thousand grains of sand’ strategy relying on amateur intelligence collectors, but it’s now increasingly … (1/3)
It's been 10 years since Go champion Lee Sedol lost to DeepMind's AlphaGo. Has the technology lived up to its potential?
Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.
Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.
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Nepal’s vote unfolded in a “digital battleground,” says Samik Kharel @techschmuck.bsky.social, with #AI-generated fakes, deepfakes, & manipulated campaign content spreading fast online, and even experts struggling to separate truth from fiction.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/a...
How is the PRC using AI to profile individuals and predict & shape behavior at scale?
Our team, with Athena Tong, analyzed leaked GoLaxy documents showing how PRC influence operations have shifted from bot farms to AI-driven systems that profile & target audiences with precision.
dtl.tw/golaxy 🧵
#Graphika assessed AI likely enabled bilingual content to be produced at the scale observed, making translation, illustrations, & cross-platform election interference faster and cheaper. #认知域作战
On X, 103 coordinated inauthentic behaviour accounts also posted #AI-generated cartoons portraying candidates negatively, using the same hashtags for those candidates’ names.
#Graphika says Tumblr accounts it assessed with high confidence as part of the Chinese state-linked influence operation #Spamouflage ( #公安部912专项工作组) published AI-generated articles simultaneously in English and Tibetan targeting candidates in the CTA election.
Analysis by Graphika.com describes online influence activity in the run up February’s election for the Sikyong in the Central Tibetan Administration, the #Tibetan diaspora’s governing body based in India.
BBC Live updates: Polls have just opened in #Nepal's first general election since deadly youth-led anti-corruption protests toppled the government last year www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
#DeepSeek used Claude without authorisation to generate censorship safe responses to queries about dissidents, party leaders, & digital authoritarianism, building political censorship training data from a US frontier model. #Anthropic has named specific researchers.
ICT urges G7 sherpas to include Tibet in talks on China, arguing that human rights abuses in #Tibet (religious repression, forced assimilation, #surveillance) are not just moral issues but *security indicators* that reveal systemic risk, affect regional stability, & should shape G7 policy on China:
“Attribution is irrelevant” Palo Alto, after removing attribution to China from a cyberespionage report because Beijing ordered its products replaced …
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
PRC-linked hackers reportedly accessed data on 5,000 Italian Interior Ministry staff, including DIGOS officers monitoring Chinese dissidents. A breach like this could expose those protecting exiles to foreign targeting. #transnationalrepression
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… but they left in that hackers targeted Czechia after its president met the Dalai Lama.
#Attribution matters. (That’s exactly why it was softened.)
“Attribution is irrelevant” Palo Alto, after removing attribution to China from a cyberespionage report because Beijing ordered its products replaced …
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Worth noting: TCRC isn’t new to this sort of research. It has long run security operations and incident response against Chinese #APT #malware activity. That operational discipline now being applied to counter- #IO #disinformation is significant (and apparently increasingly necessary.)
China’s role in digital repression in Iran ⬇️
Our new report reveals how China has helped build Iran’s surveillance, censorship, and infrastructure of information control inside the country.
UK universities told to step up defences against intimidation by China ft.trib.al/fxHgZmH
The UK’s Nature Security Assessment flags ecosystem collapse as a national security risk. Degradation of the Himalayan water system risks destabilising rivers that support billions, increasing water stress, food insecurity, & climate migration pressures with global impact
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Little scoop: British authorities have opened their first investigation into a suspected breach of the country’s cyber sanctions regime since the measures took effect more than five years ago, according to information obtained by Recorded Future News under freedom of information laws.
At @turquoiseroof.org we’re experimenting with machine learning x #Sentinel-1 radar to monitor infrastructure when snow, cloud, & sun glare limit optical imagery. #geoAI
We continue exploring provincial level’s involvement in cyber operations. See details in analysis by @euben.bsky.social
www.nattothoughts.com/p/provincial...
We talked with Dr. Valentin Weber about his research on secure messenger services inside the PLA, their flaws and limitation and how a system obsessed with surveillance, even compromises on security to keep tabs on what their soldiers talk about: open.substack.com/pub/netaskar...
BTS on the data science, geospatial methods, & engineering behind transnational threat investigations matters. Transparency about *how* evidence is built strengthens the work & the field.
Turquoise Roof uses C4ADS' investigative platform to power our open source/PAI research and investigative work:
Senior research associate @emiledirks.bsky.social will be presenting a report on transnational repression at the EU Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs on Jan 28.
Tune in here: www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/e...
AI is turning electricity into a strategic input like semiconductors: whoever can route vast, reliable, low carbon power to dense data centre clusters can scale model training, inference, & industrial automation faster & cheaper. The UHV corridor bridges frontier generation & coastal compute:
It was a privilege contributing to this report on transnational repression in the EU. I learned a great deal working with @nateschenkkan.bsky.social, @zecsaky.bsky.social, & @alexdukalskis.bsky.social. A special thank you to the victims of TNR who shared their experiences & expertise with us.
