Paul Wright
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Paul Wright
@londoncity325.bsky.social
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With over 30 years of experience, Paul has developed notable expertise in cybercrime, intelligence (OSINT and HUMINT) and digital forensics
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⚠️WEEK 4: THE AMPLIFICATION FILES - WRAP UP⚠️

In Weeks 1 - 3, The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tracked the same boiler room investment fraud operation as it picked up credibility at each stop.

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Fraud is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the UK, but the system established to deal with it has been plagued with problems. For years, victims have been forced to endure a confusing and frustrating reporting process through Action Fraud.

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Why Britain's New Ransomware Bill
Could Actually Make a Difference (If It Ever Passes)

In the House of Commons, Bradley Thomas MP used a Ten-Minute Rule motion to introduce the Cyber Extortion and Ransomware (Reporting) Bill

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🕵️‍♂️ Exploring the New Frontiers of OSINT — A Fresh Collection by Brad Snyder

OSINT continues to evolve at a breathtaking pace, bridging the worlds of cybersecurity, geopolitics, and digital forensics.

👉 Read it here: OSINT-Related Articles – October 2025 Collection
What does the AWS outage mean for OSINT practitioners and investigators? This latest analysis puts it into perspective.

If you’re an investigator or OSINT professional and haven’t considered this question, you need to read this!

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The Hidden Dangers of AWS Outages for OSINT Practitioners
When Amazon Web Services (AWS) experiences a major outage, its effects go well beyond e-commerce or entertainment streaming. For…
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Brad Snyder created an OSINT LinkTree for a number of links and RSS pages that he has collected and regularly updates.

OSINT-Related Updated Articles, 20251017

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Week 3 of the Amplification Files from The Coalition of Cyber Investigators looks at the role the world's biggest business news platform played in unwittingly amplifying the fraudulent messages of a fake fund manager and boiler room investment scam.

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The Amplification Files — Week 3: how a Yahoo Finance listing gives scams a lift
In weeks 1 and 2, we showed how a criminal boiler room operation hijacked Penn Park Capital Management Limited’s identity and presented…
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The Missing Pillar: Why the NCSC's Annual Reviews Overlook Open-Source Intelligence as a Pillar of Cybersecurity
A Critical Flaw in the UK's Cyber Defence Strategy

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The Missing Pillar: Why the NCSC’s Annual Reviews Overlook Open-Source Intelligence as a Pillar of…
A Critical Flaw in the UK’s Cyber Defence Strategy
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This is Week 2 of The Amplification Files, in which The Coalition of Cyber Investigators tells the story of how a boiler room investment scam operation credentialed itself on one of the most respected sources of financial information in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

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The Amplification Files — Week 2: The Frankfurt Stock Exchange
When Fraud Was Amplified in Frankfurt
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📕 New Beginners Guide published 📕

Windows 10 support ends tomorrow. Millions of devices will shift from “managed risk” to “forever day” exposure - especially in OT/ICS.

To help, The Coalition of Cyber Investigators and Graybox Security have teamed up.

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Managing Unsupported Technology: A Beginner's Guide to OSINT-Enabled Cybersecurity
Enter nearly any large organisation and you’ll notice a corner where an older system still runs quietly. It might be a payroll database…
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Hackers calling themselves Radiant tried to extort nursery chain Kido Schools by publishing stolen data and images of thousands of children online, but after public outrage, they removed the posts, claimed to have deleted the files, and even apologised.

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🚨 This one hit different — When hackers go after toddlers
Honestly? I’ve been involved in cybercrime for years, and I thought I’d seen it all. Then this children’s nursery thing happened, and… wow…
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When the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) Regulatory News Service (RNS) - authorised by the FCA as a Primary Information Provider in the UK - carried bogus bulletins, fraudsters gained credibility they never earned.

Case 1 of #TheAmplificationFiles is live.

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The Coalition of Cyber Investigators explores how OSINT can play a pivotal role in strengthening, testing, and safeguarding digital identity frameworks.

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OSINT and Digital ID Cards:
Are We All Becoming Digital Ghosts?
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Children's names, pictures, and addresses were stolen in a nursery chain hack. Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names, and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain.

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🚨 This one hit different — When hackers go after toddlers
Honestly? I’ve been involved in cybercrime for years, and I thought I’d seen it all. Then this children’s nursery thing happened, and… wow…
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A Raw Take on OSINT's Broken State - Time for Real Change

Brett Redman's article hit readers like a cold splash of reality. It's about time someone said it. He is spot-on about platform bias, but that's scratching the surface of the inconsistencies we see in OSINT.

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A Raw Take on OSINT’s Broken State — Time for Real Change
Brett Redman’s article “What Does OSINT Really Mean Anymore?” hit readers like a cold splash of reality — frankly, it’s about time someone…
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To mark their 50th published article, The Coalition of Cyber Investigators look back at the evolution of deception over the last 50 years and the role that OSINT now plays in unmasking it.

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Fifty Years of Deception: From Forged Letters to Synthetic Identities
INTRODUCTION
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The recent launch of MI6’s “Silent Courier” dark web platform marks a major change in intelligence recruitment methods, but it also reveals serious vulnerabilities in the OSINT environment that security experts should be alert to.

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OSINT Security Threats
MI6’s Dark Web Recruitment and Information Warfare Vulnerabilities
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