Kristina Balaam
@kristinabalaam.bsky.social
💻 Senior Staff Researcher @Lookout. 中文学习. China-Focused Threat Intelligence. Malware, Geopolitics, Human Rights. Opinions my own.
So many great talks! CANNOT WAIT! 🎉
📣 Oops!... They did it again!!!
61 Talks submitted and so many too good that, once again, we had to increase a bit the number of accepted talks.🔥
#PIVOTcon25 Agenda is finally here, and the caliber is insane!!! Check it out➡️ pivotcon.org/agenda-2025/
#CTI #ThreatIntel
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61 Talks submitted and so many too good that, once again, we had to increase a bit the number of accepted talks.🔥
#PIVOTcon25 Agenda is finally here, and the caliber is insane!!! Check it out➡️ pivotcon.org/agenda-2025/
#CTI #ThreatIntel
Talks and presenters in🧵⬇️ 1/18
March 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So many great talks! CANNOT WAIT! 🎉
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@volexity.com recently identified multiple Russian threat actors targeting users via #socialengineering + #spearphishing campaigns with Microsoft 365 Device Code authentication (a well-known technique) with alarming success: www.volexity.com/blog/2025/02...
#dfir #threatintel #m365security
#dfir #threatintel #m365security
Multiple Russian Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft Device Code Authentication
Starting in mid-January 2025, Volexity identified several social-engineering and spear-phishing campaigns by Russian threat actors aimed at compromising Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts. These attack cam...
www.volexity.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
@volexity.com recently identified multiple Russian threat actors targeting users via #socialengineering + #spearphishing campaigns with Microsoft 365 Device Code authentication (a well-known technique) with alarming success: www.volexity.com/blog/2025/02...
#dfir #threatintel #m365security
#dfir #threatintel #m365security
Reposted by Kristina Balaam
We are waiting for your submissions until 7 February #CfP #ThreatIntel #PIVOTcon25 #CTI #ThreatResearch
#DontBeLikeAnakin 👇
#DontBeLikeAnakin 👇
Send your CfP and don't be like Anakin and wait until the last day before we close submissions (7 February). We look forward to your threat research.
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🆗 trusted community
❌📹no recording
❌🎦no streaming
❌ 📱no live posting
#CfP #ThreatIntel #PIVOTcon25
January 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We are waiting for your submissions until 7 February #CfP #ThreatIntel #PIVOTcon25 #CTI #ThreatResearch
#DontBeLikeAnakin 👇
#DontBeLikeAnakin 👇
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NEW REPORT: We investigate the rising trend of gender-based digital transnational repression by drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders living in exile across the globe.
Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...
Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...
No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression - The Citizen Lab
Building upon our prior research and the contributions of other scholars to this field, the aim of this novel study is to understand the security risks and harms caused by digital transnational repres...
citizenlab.ca
December 2, 2024 at 1:14 PM
NEW REPORT: We investigate the rising trend of gender-based digital transnational repression by drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders living in exile across the globe.
Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...
Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...
Reposted by Kristina Balaam
I wrote a very timely introduction to digital security for journalists for @gijn.org, this guidance may also apply to activists, lawyers, and anyone else doing at-risk work these days. gijn.org/resource/int...
Introduction to Investigative Journalism: Digital Security
Digital security may seem a little daunting at first, but increased security will help investigative journalists build trust with — and protect — current and future sources.
gijn.org
November 27, 2024 at 11:39 AM
I wrote a very timely introduction to digital security for journalists for @gijn.org, this guidance may also apply to activists, lawyers, and anyone else doing at-risk work these days. gijn.org/resource/int...
Reposted by Kristina Balaam
November 26, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Reposted by Kristina Balaam
🔥 🇰🇵 @sentinellabs.bsky.social has found an active network of North Korean IT Worker front companies linked to China, overlapping with four companies recently disrupted by U.S. government agencies.
Read the research by @hegel.bsky.social and @dakotaindc.bsky.social: s1.ai/IT-Front
Read the research by @hegel.bsky.social and @dakotaindc.bsky.social: s1.ai/IT-Front
DPRK IT Workers | A Network of Active Front Companies and Their Links to China
SentinelLabs has identified multiple deceptive websites linked to businesses in China fronting for North Korea's fake IT workers scheme.
s1.ai
November 25, 2024 at 6:26 PM
🔥 🇰🇵 @sentinellabs.bsky.social has found an active network of North Korean IT Worker front companies linked to China, overlapping with four companies recently disrupted by U.S. government agencies.
Read the research by @hegel.bsky.social and @dakotaindc.bsky.social: s1.ai/IT-Front
Read the research by @hegel.bsky.social and @dakotaindc.bsky.social: s1.ai/IT-Front
I hate everything about this.
“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
www.thebookseller.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:40 PM
I hate everything about this.
Words cannot describe how happy I am to now be on a microblogging site where I'm not pummelled with the owner's content whenever I log in. (I was never even following him.)
November 25, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Words cannot describe how happy I am to now be on a microblogging site where I'm not pummelled with the owner's content whenever I log in. (I was never even following him.)
Reposted by Kristina Balaam
📢 Our latest report reveals that the US storefront of Amazon uses a system to restrict shipments of certain products. We found 17k+ products that were restricted from being shipped to specific regions, with the most common type of product being books 📚.
citizenlab.ca/2024/11/anal...
citizenlab.ca/2024/11/anal...
Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com - The Citizen Lab
We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped...
citizenlab.ca
November 25, 2024 at 8:37 PM
📢 Our latest report reveals that the US storefront of Amazon uses a system to restrict shipments of certain products. We found 17k+ products that were restricted from being shipped to specific regions, with the most common type of product being books 📚.
citizenlab.ca/2024/11/anal...
citizenlab.ca/2024/11/anal...