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Stefan Soesanto and Wiktoria Gajos explore the cyber warfare lessons Western militaries should take from Ukraine's offensive cyber operations in its war against Russia, and the necessity of being “responsibly irresponsible” in cyberspace. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/offe...
03.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 34 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
The following is a typical cyber Wunderwaffe story, in this case about how the Russian hackers analyzed stolen insurance company databases to find Ukrainian SBU military bases.
Proof: “Trust me, bro.”
ria.ru/20251103/sbu...
For the last two weeks, Russian media has been full of fantastic tales of their hackers smiting the enemy: KillNet, Beregini, PalachPro hacking the Ukrainians and finding all sorts of nefarious data. But somehow there is never a bit of proof or support for any of this—none needed, I guess.
03.11.2025 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I have been a reporter for close to 40 years, including stints covering police and the courts. This thing, from the president down, of accusing people of crimes when not charged: That did not used to be a thing. Authorities don’t do that because it is unfair and leads to cases being tossed.
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How do you think that Musk, Thiel, and the rest of the PayPal mafia got so wealthy? It wasn’t holding your money out of the goodness of their hearts. 🙂
03.11.2025 00:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We should just be thankful that they didn’t ask about Trump’s bulging muscles, overwhelming intellect, and movie star good looks.
Those will top the list of options in 2028.
Here’s my take on the letter that MAGA lies about:
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-stil...
And on Saturday the Halloween-themed cosplay festival itself was forced to close, with Russian authorities citing “many complaints” about the event. It had reportedly been targeted by the conservative group Sorok Sorokov for “luring youth into the destructive world of Satanism.”
02.11.2025 12:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
A completely fitting theme.
The organizer of a Halloween-themed festival in Saint Petersburg was arrested on Halloween. A citizen of Kazakhstan, he reportedly faces possible deportation even though he has lived in Russia for 20 years.
Gotta protect Russian spirituality from foreign occult influence. And costumes.
I see that she’s always been willing to dive in and take on the tough cases, even if she’s a little unsteady and unfamiliar with the details.
01.11.2025 14:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Independent Telegram news channel VChK-OGPU once again deleted by self-proclaimed free speech champion Pavel Durov. Sales of narcotics, malware, fraud services, and CSAM rampant on Telegram, but those pesky Russian journalists are the problem that Durov keeps coming back to. Strange how that works.
01.11.2025 00:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Always so negative. Why, when I think of the humble, self-educated railsplitter born in a log cabin on the frontier, statuary marble and gold fittings are the first things that come to mind.
31.10.2025 23:53 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com sat down with Quico Toro to talk about his new book about what defines a charlatan, the cognitive biases they exploit to take people in, and how technological and societal changes have made charlatanism one of today’s most urgent crises. youtu.be/dXcTmEEqB6c
30.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0In Russia, October 30th is the day of remembrance for the victims of political repression.
Looking forward to the time when the politically repressed and persecuted in Russia are all in the past.
Getting a vibe from some Russian media that many in Russia see Trump’s announcement about restarting nuclear tests as a direct answer to Putin’s recent triumphant announcements about successful tests of his Buravestnik/Skyfall nuclear powered cruise missile and Poseidon nuclear torpedo.
30.10.2025 11:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I had the chance to add some words to this very important report! Thanks for having me!
29.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 44 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0
Das sind die Cyberpartisanen aus Belarus:
👉 www.dekoder.org/de/article/b...
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29.10.2025 00:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Russian Central Bank also calls for legislation to regulate the wild world of cryptocurrency exchanging in Russia in order to curb money laundering and terrorism financing.
Is this the end of 20+ years of Russia’s unregulated digital currency exchangers?
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8160082
Add the ISD to the growing list of orgs (four now) warning us about AI chatbots repeating Russian disinfo... or Russia intentionally poisoning these things... The other three are the American Sunlight Project, NewsGuard, and Open Measures.
www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
Russian Central Bank official tells Federation Council that cryptocurrencies could be used for international trade settlements after the sector is “cleaned up” and laundering and terrorist financing taints neutralized, which the bank is attempting to do.
www.interfax.ru/business/105...
Roskomnadzor announces at the SPEKTR-2025 conference that it considers its Russian national anti-DDOS system a success and will expand its technical capabilities. The system protects 1,400 organizations and also major events like Putin’s direct line with citizens.
t.me/rkn_tg/1691
Except being a white hat hacker now is not legal; neither bug bounties nor penetration testing have any basis in the law. They easily fit into the legal definition of hacking, and hacking is illegal. The law is supposed to provide a legal framework that would legitimize them, with guardrails.
27.10.2025 22:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some are not happy and they expect several more rounds of tuning before any law is passed. There was some commentary by industry in Kommersant.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8141928
The UN Cybercrime Convention opened for signature over the weekend.
@mailynfidler.bsky.social writes that the convention is essentially a global mutual legal assistance treaty for all crimes, and its success will turn on whether states favor this kind of regime and whether the U.S. decides to join.
And Vrublevsky gets 10 years in a prison colony. All of his years of scheming and grifting would seem to have finally caught up with him. There’s always the Special Military Operation, Pasha.
27.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda
www.wired.com/story/chatbo...
