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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 5h

The Russian military command is deploying units of North Korean troops to support operations in Ukraine's Sumy region, the General Staff reports.

These units,operating from Russia's Kursk region,conduct reconnaissance using drones, identify Ukrainian Armed Forces positions, and adjust fire on them.

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The Record @therecordmedia.bsky.social · 4h

Researchers said North-Korean linked hackers have been using blockchains to deliver malware and steal cryptocurrency in a technique they call "EtherHiding" therecord.media/north-korean...

North Korean hackers seen using blockchain to hide crypto-stealing malware

Google security researchers said on Thursday that they observed a Pyongyang-backed hacking group, tracked as UNC5342, deploying a method known as EtherHiding — a way of embedding malicious code inside...

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 4h

⚡️ A new U.S. long-range strike drone co-developed in Ukraine just entered mass production.

🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 4h

Happy National Bosses Day to the true leaders of the pack!

These wise wolves may not realize it, but they guide everything we do. From educating the public and helping people truly understand wolves, to inspiring guests onsite.

Adopt one of our ambassadors to celebrate ➡️ nywolf.org/adopt-a-wolf/

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 4h

Microsoft revokes 200 certs that were being used to sign malware used in attacks with the Ryhisida ransomware

This is another way to disrupt ransomware operations without going through the courts... cheaper too

Microsoft Threat Intelligence @threatintel.microsoft.com · 21h

In early October 2025, Microsoft disrupted a Vanilla Tempest campaign by revoking over 200 certificates that the threat actor had fraudulently signed and used in fake Teams setup files to deliver the Oyster backdoor and ultimately deploy Rhysida ransomware.

The text "Vanilla Tempest" and the icon for financially motivated threat actors in white against a blue background.

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Blacky @coldblacksun.bsky.social · 4h

Russia's FSB is abducting residents of occupied territories of Ukraine. They are held for months without charge or contact with their families. Russian security forces have begun conducting "sweeps," methods they honed in Chechnya
echofm.online/news/fsb-poh...

ФСБ похищает жителей оккупированных территорий Украины. Их месяцами удерживают без предъявления обвинений и связи с родными. У «Эха» есть документы и видео, подтверждающие похищения - ЭХО

Подобные случаи не первый год происходят на оккупированных территориях Луганской и Запорожской областей и в аннексированном Крыму, следует из жалоб в аппарат уполномоченного по правам человека в Росси...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 21h

New from me: Who are the attorneys filing AI-tainted briefs in court?

After @404media.co ran an article based on Damien Charlotin's AI Hallucination Cases database, I analyzed 114 US cases. They're almost all solo or small firms, usually plaintiff's-side.

cyberlaw.stanford.edu/whos-submitt...

Who’s Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court?

It seems like every day brings another news story about a lawyer caught unwittingly submitting a court filing that cites nonexistent cases hallucinated by AI. The problem persists despite courts’ stan...

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GreyNoise @greynoise.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20h

Amid the security incident involving F5 BIG-IP announced today, GreyNoise is sharing recent insights into activity targeting BIG-IP to aid in defensive posturing. The anomalies reported in our blog may not necessarily relate to the 15 Oct incident. ⬇️ […]

Original post on infosec.exchange

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Blacky @coldblacksun.bsky.social · 20h

NASA found a secret military base buried 100 feet deep in Greenland’s ice shelf
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a690...

NASA Found a Secret Military Base Buried 100 Feet Deep in Greenland’s Ice Shelf

The base is abandoned, but the U.S. Army left some waste behind.

www.popularmechanics.com

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 22h

A US judge sentences Matthew Lane, a 20-year-old Massachusetts man, to four years in prison after he pled guilty to hacking two companies, including PowerSchool (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 21h

Russia claims it rebuilt Mariupol — but even its own war tourists show the city still in ruins.

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Blacky @coldblacksun.bsky.social · 1d

Hamas sabotages deal: Bodies of murdered hostages held in Gaza
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpsF...

XAMAC срывает сделку: Тела убитых заложников удерживаются в Газе

YouTube video by Сергей Ауслендер

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

Russian drone strike on Nizhyn, Chernihiv region.

A residential building, civilian infrastructure, postal terminal hit.

Two people injured.

Casual Russian genocide.

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GreyNoise @greynoise.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

A global botnet has tripled in size in the past five days, so GreyNoise is sharing an executive situation report (SITREP) to streamline decision making.

Full SITREP: https://info.greynoise.io/hubfs/Situation-Reports/GreyNoise-SITREP-RDP-Attacks.pdf

Use […]

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Blacky @coldblacksun.bsky.social · 1d

F5 said that nation-state hackers breached its systems and stole info about undisclosed BIG-IP security vulnerabilities and source code
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

ffiv-20251015

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

US DHS: Chinese criminal organizations made $1B+ in the past three years via scam texts; Proofpoint: last month, a record 330K US toll-scam texts were reported (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 2d

⚡️ Ukraine listed 314 Belarusians killed fighting for Russia, many recruited from prisons — the youngest just 18.

“I Want to Live” reports nearly one in four Belarusians sent to war for Moscow has died.

Ukraine Lists 314 Belarusians Killed Fighting for Russia—Youngest Only 18 Years Old

The Ukrainian initiative "I Want to Live" reports 314 Belarusian mercenaries killed fighting for Russia, revealing higher potential losses.

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 2d

German and Bulgarian authorities have seized more than 1,400 websites that were used for financial crypto scams.

Officials recorded more than 866,000 attempts to access the sites over the ten days after they were seized, which highlighted the attackers' success

www.bafin.de/SharedDocs/V...

Schlag gegen Cyberkriminelle

Die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Karlsruhe, das Landeskriminalamt Baden-Württemberg und die Finanzaufsicht BaFin informieren über einen Schlag gegen international agierende Cyberkriminelle.

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 2d

"If there’s any justice to be found in the matter, it rests with the prospect that Roberts’ brutality could spark real change for the better for wolves and other wildlife, for ethics and for Wyoming’s future."

www.skyhinews.com/news/the-wol...

The wolf-killing case that could change Wyoming

The Wyoming man who deliberately ran down a wolf with his snowmobile in 2024 didn’t face any consequences, unless you count a $250 fine for “possessing a live animal.” But as the haunting story and...

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 2d

A satellite image confirms damage to the Sukodolnaya oil pumping station in Russia, struck by Ukrainian drones on October 1. The attack was initially detected via NASA fire monitoring data and a regional governor’s report.

Courtesy of @bradyafr.bsky.social and Maxar

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 2d

Europe’s tourist visas are becoming Moscow’s Trojan horse.

When Europe’s Tourist Visas Become Russia’s Window for Hybrid War

Each new round of EU sanctions on Russia revives the same debate—should Russian citizens still get tourist visas?

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

Microsoft officially ends support for Windows 10, which runs on ~40% of Windows PCs per Statcounter; users can enroll in an Extended Security Updates program (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 2d

Another major surveillance provider exposed: First Wap

Its product was used to track some very high-profile figures

www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

text that reads: In Italy, investigative journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi was tracked days after publishing a dramatic exposé of corruption in the Vatican, as police closed in on his source. In California, Anne Wojcicki, founder of DNA startup 23andMe and then married to Google’s Sergey Brin, was tracked more than a thousand times as she moved across Silicon Valley. And in South Africa, associates of Rwandan opposition leader Patrick Karegeya were tracked before his assassination in a Johannesburg hotel room.

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