Bart Thijssen
@bartthijssen.bsky.social
Master of (Keeping/Stealing) your Secrets | Security Advisor & Intel Analyst | Civil Servant @ BE | Klopjacht-speurder | IT Eng. + Pol. Sci. | Posts my own
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‼️ Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia's most notorious kill squad
As The Insider discovered, Unit 29155, the Kremlin’s most notorious black ops squad, also fielded a team of hackers that tried to destabilize Ukraine before Russia’s full-scale invasion.
As The Insider discovered, Unit 29155, the Kremlin’s most notorious black ops squad, also fielded a team of hackers that tried to destabilize Ukraine before Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad
Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions in Czechia, and an attempted coup d’etat in ...
theins.press
May 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
‼️ Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia's most notorious kill squad
As The Insider discovered, Unit 29155, the Kremlin’s most notorious black ops squad, also fielded a team of hackers that tried to destabilize Ukraine before Russia’s full-scale invasion.
As The Insider discovered, Unit 29155, the Kremlin’s most notorious black ops squad, also fielded a team of hackers that tried to destabilize Ukraine before Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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Ok, let me repeat this with a different news source: Disrupting an iconic cultural event to humiliate Europe is in line with how russia is thinking these days
Breaking News: Acts of sabotage caused a power outage in France that briefly disrupted the Cannes Film Festival, the authorities said.
Power Outage in Cannes During Film Festival Is Sabotage, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Ok, let me repeat this with a different news source: Disrupting an iconic cultural event to humiliate Europe is in line with how russia is thinking these days
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NEW: More than a decade ago, Kaspersky discovered a mysterious "elite" hacking group it called Careto (aka “The Mask”), which then vanished and only resurfaced last year.
We can now reveal that the researchers who investigated it were confident that the Spanish government was behind it.
We can now reveal that the researchers who investigated it were confident that the Spanish government was behind it.
Mysterious hacking group Careto was run by the Spanish government, sources say | TechCrunch
The elusive hacking group Careto was never publicly linked to a specific government, but TechCrunch has learned researchers concluded privately that the Spanish government was behind the group.
techcrunch.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: More than a decade ago, Kaspersky discovered a mysterious "elite" hacking group it called Careto (aka “The Mask”), which then vanished and only resurfaced last year.
We can now reveal that the researchers who investigated it were confident that the Spanish government was behind it.
We can now reveal that the researchers who investigated it were confident that the Spanish government was behind it.
Reposted by Bart Thijssen
Reposted by Bart Thijssen
My latest on the clean OPSEC saga: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more micahflee.com/telemessage-...
TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more
I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial findings, details about an up...
micahflee.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
My latest on the clean OPSEC saga: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more micahflee.com/telemessage-...
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While Russia is suffering horrendous casualties in Ukraine and failing by most metrics, European states perceive it as an existential threat—and are frantically preparing for an attack.
In my new piece for @foreignpolicy.com, I make sense of this paradox.
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In my new piece for @foreignpolicy.com, I make sense of this paradox.
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A Russia-NATO War Would Look Nothing Like Ukraine
Moscow will seek to avoid a full-on war and focus on breaking the bloc’s resolve.
foreignpolicy.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM
While Russia is suffering horrendous casualties in Ukraine and failing by most metrics, European states perceive it as an existential threat—and are frantically preparing for an attack.
In my new piece for @foreignpolicy.com, I make sense of this paradox.
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foreignpolicy.com?p=1195629&pr...
In my new piece for @foreignpolicy.com, I make sense of this paradox.
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foreignpolicy.com?p=1195629&pr...