For the newest edition of the newsletter I'm writing with @jls.bsky.social, here are my thoughts on cybercrime-related investigations, being as fair as possible and access journalism.
I hope you enjoy this, sincerely open to feedback.
buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...
„The contract … almost certainly rescued an otherwise ailing Palantir from corporate oblivion. It also may have rescued Maven, which ultimately overcame the bitter skepticism of the defense establishment. Manson’s story culminates with the war in Ukraine“
www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
"A search of the Goodreads page for the Ballard novel revealed a user named “Alex Norden” who completed the book on June 20, 2020, six days before the HowlingMutant post."
kudos to the whole team, especially @sophiastahl.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/did:...
A fascinating read by my colleagues on a police officer who was part of the detention system in Xinjian and now has fled the country and now is speaking out, because if one day, he was asked, what he did to fight the injustice, he can say: "I spoke the truth"
www.spiegel.de/ausland/chin...
"Reuters reviewed the underlying data and is publishing details of the hacks for the first time, including the identities of more than a dozen compromised European agencies and officials."
www.reuters.com/world/russia...
"companies from all over the world are systematically harvesting every word I’ve ever published … Kevin in Montreal now can’t read my articles because my hosting provider decided the solution was to block Canada and half the rest of the world"
matthiasott.com/articles/web...
(1/6) Josephina Kersten ist erst 30 Jahre alt, als Ärzte in ihrer linken Brust einen besonders aggressiven Tumor finden. Es folgen 435 Tage Therapie – 17 Mal bekommt sie ein Medikament, das als Hoffnungsträger gilt: Keytruda. The #CancerCalculus ➡️ www.zdfheute.de/politik/deut...
Nicht, dass ich wüsste. Würde sagen, ist Aufgabe von Researcher und Journalist, das zu Beginn zu besprechen. Je nachdem, wie medienerfahren Researcher ist, im Detail.
„Normalcy has not returned, but the frequency of drones and missiles has dropped enough to move the needle just past the fine line between the headache of liability and the headache of compliance“
www.ft.com/content/c902...
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.
This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
We didn't deserve this day.
(Altman doesn’t remember this)
(Altman denies this.)
(Altman does not recall this.)
(Altman says that he was probably joking.)
(Altman says that he wasn’t aware of this until much later.)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I think Tuesday we get to find out whether the chairman of the joint chiefs, the CENTCOM commander and others are willing to carry out illegal orders.
a real „it’s only Tuesday“ kind of week
If you speak German and are interested in finding out who is behind those obnoxious fake SMS, here’s a three part series that’s
– visually sooo appealing
– full of interesting details
– very well-written
www.ardmediathek.de/video/kings-...
Chalker’s defectors contributed to what several former senior officials told me had been a dramatic leap forward in the U.S. government’s understanding of Iran’s nuclear ambitions in those years.
Absolutely crazy story that ties together many aspects related to cybersecurity, specifically about Iran‘s nuclear ambitions and how defectors have helped the U.S. keeping Iran away from the bomb, including through Stuxnet
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"members of commissioners' cabinets and other senior bureaucrats had received messages asking them to enter their Signal PIN codes, which were identified as phishing attempts"
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
Anybody who grew up watching W lie to get the US into Iraq is gonna be a certain level of jaded, but what I'm trying to stress here is that if the US military is deliberately lying to the public to claim a loss didn't happen, that is a significant and new shift, but in line with Trump 2 agencies.
"The anchor on the Iranian channel urged residents to hand over any “enemy pilot” to police and promised a reward for anyone who did."
apnews.com/article/iran...
The genesis of this investigation (w/@regret.bsky.social, @timmarchman.bsky.social , @couts.bsky.social, @hudsongiles.bsky.social & @samspengler.bsky.social) was the winged insignia worn by Greg Bovino & several camouflaged Border Patrol agents thruout At Large, Midway Blitz & Metro Surge - BORTAC
"reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS."
infosec.exchange/@jonny@neuro...
Truly don't understand why they'd even try to do this. Not because of all the "haha, they don't get to claim copyright"-discussion, but it's so blatantly obvious this thing is lost. What's the reasoning here?
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
🔎NEW INVESTIGATION: The hotline between FM Péter Szijjártó and Sergey Lavrov gives Russia strategic insight into key EU matters. Evidence, including a leaked phone call recording shows Hungary’s FM acted for the Kremlin, pushing to delist sanctioned Russians, with Slovak support.
very interesting conversation between @josephcox.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social, both of whom are incredibly good
"Substantial amounts of high-impact vulnerability research (maybe even most of it) will happen simply by pointing an agent at a source tree and typing “find me zero days”.
I think this outcome is locked in."
sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03...
wanted poster of Schukin and Kravchov
Years ago, we've published an investigation into one core member of REvil, together with @maxzierer.bsky.social and @kaibiermann.bsky.social
Now, german authorities put out a Wanted poster for Mr. Shchukin
www.bka.de/DE/IhreSiche...
Here's our reporting from back then
www.zeit.de/digital/inte...
