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#threatintel @Recorded Future | Formerly @PwC GTI | Malware & infrastructure analysis with a side of cyberpunk. 🌃🌌 She/her, support 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨

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The Banshee Queen 👑 @cyberoverdrive.bsky.social · 15d

First public report at Recorded Future by yours truly is out! RedNovember (formerly TAG-100, a.k.a. Storm-2077) is a Chinese state-sponsored threat group focused on intelligence collection, especially on flashpoint issues of strategic interest to China. www.recordedfuture.com/research/red...

RedNovember Targets Government, Defense, and Technology Organizations

RedNovember, a likely Chinese state-sponsored cyber-espionage group, has targeted global government, defense, and tech sectors using advanced tools like Pantegana and Cobalt Strike. Discover the lates...

www.recordedfuture.com

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 1h

Here's the concern: It's technically possible for a committed amateur to make chem or bioweapons (variants of smallpox, polio, anthrax). The information's out there on the internet. It's just obscure and incredibly hard to learn. But now we're building "PhD level custom tutors" for everyone.

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 2h

New: We jailbroke four versions of ChatGPT to get instructions on how to create viruses and chemical weapons.

The instructions were all flawed, and the it didn't work on GPT-5. But 4 of the 5 big AI companies have internally found their top models are close to being able to tutor bioterrorists.

ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions

NBC News found that OpenAI’s models repeatedly provided answers on making chemical and biological weapons.

www.nbcnews.com

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: A prominent Italian businessman was reportedly targeted with Paragon spyware, widening the surveillance scandal in Italy, according to local news reports.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/i...

Italian businessman's phone reportedly targeted with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch

The alleged targeting of prominent Italian businessman Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone now widens the Paragon spyware scandal in Italy to victims beyond journalists and activists.

techcrunch.com

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BleepingComputer @bleepingcomputer.com · 23h

SonicWall has confirmed that all customers that used the company's cloud backup service are affected by the security breach last month.

SonicWall: Firewall configs stolen for all cloud backup customers

SonicWall has confirmed that all customers that used the company's cloud backup service are affected by the security breach last month.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 22h

Early damage assessment from Google on the cl0p-Oracle EBS mess:

"Dozens" of organizations believed to be affected. Large amounts of data thought to have been stolen.

More here: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

Oracle E-Business Suite Zero-Day Exploited in Widespread Extortion Campaign | Google Cloud Blog

A financially motivated actor conducting a large-scale extortion campaign under the CL0P brand by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite to steal customer data.

cloud.google.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

The real economy is already in a deep recession. The fake AI economy is a smokescreen. And now I'm afraid that the government will throw any amount of money at it to keep it from popping.

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns

According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...

www.techspot.com

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Mark Bowen @aratusofsicyon.bsky.social · 1d

" It was 2016. It's always 2016 with us. In our lives together, which are sweet in the way of rotting things, it is somehow permanently 2016."

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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever wanted to see two terminally online nerds really (and I mean *really*) get into the SVR deep lore while continuing the eternal goal of making 2016 last forever?

Gosh does @cyberwarcon.bsky.social have a talk for you!

Oil Into The Fire — CYBERWARCON

www.cyberwarcon.com

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The Banshee Queen 👑 @cyberoverdrive.bsky.social · 1d

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who works with satellite and 3D imagery, this project reinforced how crucial it is to question what’s rendered as truth.

Keep an eye out for some follow ups in different mediums looking ahead

Full story w/ @972mag.com via Oren Ziv:

www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

The TikTok outlines that a specific goal of these animations is to multiply their reach by cultivating secondary coverage

And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

These videos are produced in-house by a small animation cell in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, working mainly in After Effects + Blender

In a TikTok posted after Israel's June attacks on Iran, soldiers describe working weeks under “prime-minister-level secrecy” to prepare visuals

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

One of the earlier and most-viewed examples was an animation of Al Shifa Hospital, published in October 2023.

The “underground command room” was recycled from a 2022 IDF animation of an UNRWA school in Tel Al-Hawa; the street above was built from prefab @kb-3d.bsky.social storefronts

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

These assets have been used in IDF videos as recently as September 5, in an animation of the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City, which was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes the same day

In this video the ground itself is a patch-work quilt of third-party scans of pavement & parking lots

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

Hubert's assets, created as decorations for cyberpunk cityscapes, are used especially widely in animations that the IDF released during their strikes on Iran in June.

Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven't been paying attention to the Palestine Action protest arrests in the UK, you may not realize how truly absurd things have become.

Here's a good example: You can be arrested for holding up a magazine because its cover shows the sign, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Pro-Palestine protester arrested for holding up magazine at train station

A man has been arrested for holding up a magazine cover amid pro-Palestine protests in London.

www.thenational.scot

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hakan @hatr.bsky.social · 1d

WaPo analysis of "TikTok watch histories from 1,100 users", a database of roughly 15 million videos served during a six-month period.

"After five months, the data trends for both groups [power users, least actives], suggested features of compulsive behavior"

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/int...

How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

www.washingtonpost.com

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