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Alexander Martin

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Journalist covering cybersecurity and intelligence. UK Editor at The Record from Recorded Future News. Dad of two. 🏠 Sheffield 📧 [email protected] 📱 Signal: AlexanderMartin.79

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · Sep 2

My mum was recently among the many women who annually are diagnosed with breast cancer. I’m running the Gainsborough Half Marathon this November, hoping to raise funds for Breast Cancer Now supporting vital research that improves outcomes for women like her.

Thank you for any support you can offer!

Gainsborough Morton 10k & Half Marathon November 2025

Hey there, thanks so much for checking out my givestar campaign. This already makes you a big deal! givestar take fundraising seriously and treat each and...

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 3h

Russia is behind a campaign of cyberattacks, sabotage and provocation across Europe, according to the president of the European Commission, who warned on Wednesday morning: “It is time to call it by its name. This is hybrid warfare, and we have to take it very seriously.”

Russia is at ‘hybrid war’ with Europe, warns EU chief, calling for members ‘to take it very seriously’

European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen urged the EU to “urgently equip itself with a strategic capacity to respond” to Russian hybrid warfare.

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Latika M Bourke @latikambourke.com · 6h

Gosh a punchy statement from the Czechs on the Gaza flotilla. Essentially saying their attention-seeking stunt overburdened consular staff putting other citizens at risk.

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure if you're joking, but of course it already exists without a blockchain: contentauthenticity.org

Content Authenticity Initiative

Join the movement for content authenticity and provenance. The CAI is a global community promoting adoption of the C2PA Content Credentials standard.

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The Banshee Queen 👑 @cyberoverdrive.bsky.social · 13d

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...

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Great to see the impressive agenda for Binding Hook Live is now public! I'm really excited for this event!

Agenda - Binding Hook Live

Agenda 8:30 AM Arrival & Registration 9:30 AM Welcome Max Smeets, Co-Director, Virtual Routes 9:35 AM Keynote | What's Next for Chinese Cyber Strategy? Adam Segal, Ira A. Lipman chair, Emerging Techno...

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 1d

“Criminals were able to sneak into Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire during daylight hours on Saturday and take fuel from a tanker belonging to a civilian contractor.”

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Security breach at army camp as fence cut and fuel stolen

British troops have been told to be on high alert after the break-in and theft at Larkhill Camp, amid concerns over security at military sites

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 2d

It's great to see editorials in the Financial Times and The Guardian, a column in The Times and an article in The New York Times, raising questions about the government's policy response to ransomware. We've been doing that for a while too, and I've written a little about that here. ⤵️

It's great to see editorials in the Financial Times and The Guardian, a column in The Times and an article in The New York Times, raising questions about the government's policy response to… |...

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 2d

My heart goes out to all of those Oracle customers facing malicious extortion attempts. Sorry, there's a ransomware attack now too?

Oracle links extortion campaign to bugs addressed in July patch

Incident responders at Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) released a warning about the incident on Wednesday evening, telling Recorded Future News in an email that they are tracking ...

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 12d

Scoop: Britain’s replacement service for its failed national reporting center for fraud and financially motivated cybercrime, Action Fraud, is to be named Report Fraud when it is publicly launched later this year, according to multiple sources.

As fraud surges, UK prepares to replace its broken reporting service

Action Fraud is out, and Report Fraud is in. U.K. authorities say the latest version of a national reporting center for financially motivated cybercrime and other fraud will go live later this year.

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 13d

📌 reminder to myself to read the McCullough Review

Chief Constable's statement following the publication of the McCullough Review | PSNI

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has today, Wednesday 24 September, published the McCullough Review. Commenting on the publication of the Report, Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said: “In June 2024...

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 14d

In his forties! So much for those rumoured Scattered Spider links...

"NCA officers detained a man in his forties from West Sussex on suspicion of computer crime. He was later released on conditional bail, the agency said on Wednesday."

UK authorities announce arrest in cyberattack that disrupted European airports

Britain's National Crime Agency said it arrested a man on suspicion of computer crimes related to a widely disruptive attack on airport check-in systems.

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 15d

At least that's available on Android! I think iPhones need to be on lockdown mode for any similar protection...

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 15d

So I think the issue could be overwhelming the 4G network and having mobile devices drop down to 2G, which a malicious base station could then exploit to collect the comms.

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 15d

Actually measurements of the wind by two people in a shared geography could be used to create a key... I think anything other a zero-entropy space in the information theory sense (which I think is impossible) is capable of encoding communications. I'll explain in a letter to the Secret Service...

Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 15d

Maybe the wind? Any object like an apple could have some kind of code cut into it. Any human activity could be used to encode a message.

Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 15d

I'm struggling to think of anything that cannot be used to conduct encrypted communications.

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 15d

I'm sorry, should have included it in the original post. NYT here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N.

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 15d

I'm struggling to think of anything that cannot be used to conduct encrypted communications.

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 19d

Access instructions available from a verified YouTube account (www.youtube.com/@MI6) in French, Spanish, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi and Russian, alongside a video of “fictional brave individuals from around the world who have taken the courageous decision to make contact with MI6 using Silent Courier.”

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 19d

The United Kingdom’s foreign intelligence agency launched a darkweb portal on Friday to recruit spies “anywhere in the world with access to sensitive information relating to terrorism or hostile intelligence activity.”

MI6 launches darkweb portal to recruit foreign spies

Britain's foreign intelligence agency has a new darkweb site for foreigners to share "sensitive information on global instability, international terrorism or hostile state intelligence activity."

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 20d

Please note: Contempt of court laws prohibit prejudicing a jury trial by suggesting suspects' guilt or innocence, publishing details regarding their past convictions, or speculating about the character of the defendants.

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 20d

The specific charges against both men include “conspiracy to commit an unauthorised act in relation to a computer causing / creating risk of serious damage to human welfare/national security,” the maximum sentence for which is life imprisonment.

Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 20d

Breaking: Two suspected members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective have been arrested and charged in the United Kingdom following an investigation into the hack of Transport for London last year.

➡️ Thalha Jubair, 19, from East London
➡️ Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall

Two teenage suspected Scattered Spider members charged in UK over TfL hack

A 19-year-old and an 18-year-old have been arrested and charged in the hack of London's transport agency in 2024 — an attack attributed to the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective.

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 21d

Shares in a British automaker supplier plummeted 55% Wednesday as it warned that a cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover was impacting its business, adding to concerns that the incident is sending a “shockwave” through the country’s industrial sector, according to a senior politician.

JLR ‘cyber shockwave ripping through UK industry’ as supplier share price plummets by 55%

Shares in Autins, a company providing specialist insulation components for Jaguar vehicles, opened 55% below its Tuesday closing price on the AIM exchange for smaller companies.

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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 21d

And that's after people from the four segments of Italy finish arguing.

Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 21d

The company subsequently denied its systems or users were “compromised” although it has not responded to repeated requests for clarification about whether its services played a role in the attack, for instance by support staff being socially engineered by the perpetrators seeking access credentials.