'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

some other highlights:
- this cluster tried to re-establish relationships after we disabled their accounts by creating new, similarly named accounts. very persistent!
- if you thought their device linking phase was over, think again! susp apt29 groups looove this & want to make it seem more legit

We (@gabagool.ing - AKA gabbot) and I updated this with some more recent tomfoolery from this group.

They continued the ASP campaign with evidence they responded to our initial publication.

They were doing some sneaky calendar stuff that lead to adding a device to the target's O365 tenant.

“So ensuring [privacy] in a world where the authority to know us has been ceded to private actors who may or may not cooperate with one or another regime, who may choose to use that data to manipulate or to harm us or to exclude us from access to resources, is existentially important.”

Same Sea, New Phish: Russian Government-Linked Social Engineering Targets App-Specific Passwords - The Citizen Lab Keir Giles, a prominent expert on Russia, was targeted with a new form of social-engineering attack that leverages App-Specific Passwords. Google links the operation to UNC6293, a Russian state-backed...

citizen lab’s blog: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/russ... Same Sea, New Phish: Russian Government-Linked Social Engineering Targets App-Specific Passwords - The Citizen Lab

What’s in an ASP? Creative Phishing Attack on Prominent Academics and Critics of Russia | Google Cloud Blog A Russia-sponsored threat actor is impersonating the U.S. Department of State, and using phishing to gain access to email accounts.

our blog: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/... What’s in an ASP? Creative Phishing Attack on Prominent Academics and Critics of Russia | Google Cloud Blog

@keirgiles.bsky.social’s original post

Suspected Russian hackers used new tactic against UK researcher Suspected Russian hackers have deployed a new tactic to trick even wary targets into compromising their own accounts, a victim of the spy campaign and researchers said on Wednesday.

Suspected Russian hackers used new tactic against UK researcher reut.rs/44uUqw3

more from me, @wxs.bsky.social (wxsbot), & @jsrailton.bsky.social about the ASP phishing attempts in this great piece by @timstarks.bsky.social. & kudos to @keirgiles.bsky.social for bringing attention to this, especially since it is targeting individuals vs orgs!

Unusually patient suspected Russian hackers pose as State Department in ‘sophisticated’ attacks on researchers A report out Wednesday from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab calls out a “novel method” Russian hackers used to bypass one of the most well-regarded cyber defense tools, multi-factor authentica...

NEW: @citizenlab.ca and Google have details on a "sophisticated" and "novel" attempt by APT 29 to target a British expert who focuses on the Russian military by posing at the US State Department. @timstarks.bsky.social has the scoop cyberscoop.com/russian-hack...

What’s in an ASP? Creative Phishing Attack on Prominent Academics and Critics of Russia | Google Cloud Blog A Russia-sponsored threat actor is impersonating the U.S. Department of State, and using phishing to gain access to email accounts.

So @gabagool.ing (who will henceforth be referred to as "gabbot") and I wrote some stuff on some ASP phishing campaigns: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

Citizen Lab worked closely with one of the targets and shared their work on it also: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/russ...

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Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

folks I've been tear gassed something like 200 times and maced at least fifty or so times. once i was soaked in mace to my underwear. ignore any neat scientific tricks people give you for beating this stuff

-Water for tear gas
-sudecon wipes for mace
-if no sudecon, wash mace with water

soooo fair

depending on how long ur flight is you could prob crush an ep in the air. just saying

yes.

did you watch season 2 of the rehearsal?

Russia Beefs Up Bases Near Finland’s Border

Russian forces have been building military infrastructure near the Finnish border, according to recent satellite imagery, in moves that could reveal their strategy for what happens after the Ukraine war.

Like I wrote yesterday, it's never been clearer that US aid for the Israeli military is morally indefensible, and there’s never going to be a better time than right now to stop defending it.

That's true today, too.

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

“Project Esther aims to go further, equating actions such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests with providing “material support” for terrorism, a broad legal construct that can lead to prison time, deportations, civil penalties” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Lithuania files case against Belarus at the International Court of Justice Lithuania's foreign ministry said on Monday it has filed a case against Belarus at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbour of orchestrating a migrant crisis.

Lithuania files case against Belarus at the International Court of Justice reut.rs/4mnzyi8

welcome to the age of Weird Terrorism

some flowers I’ve seen while walking my dog this week

thanks to my lil roof garden we will not be getting scurvy anytime soon

the chives in question

harvested some kale and mustard greens for dinner, cut back some shiso to dry for tea, plucked some chive blossoms to make chive blossom vinegar…chat am I dangerously close to trad-wifery or dangerously close to witchery

check out some really interesting analysis from @wxs.bsky.social on a very persistent russian apt targeting mostly personal accounts vs corp/gov 👀

what if… no more connecticut. and expand massachusetts

shout out to this newly flowering geranium in my garden for single-handedly curing my depression

In an interview with CBS, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow won't turn over control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Washington apparently hasn't formally suggested it, either. www.cbsnews.com/news/sergey-...