Sig. Ug.
@sigug.bsky.social
News, tech, cybercrime, Russia
You have precious little privacy in this global networked world; don't throw it away for a few clicks and likes.
You have precious little privacy in this global networked world; don't throw it away for a few clicks and likes.
Count on Telegram to bring depravity and lawlessness into peoples’ pockets around the world. It’s like a universal bulletproof hoster that allows every scammer and criminal to set up shop, no technical skills required.
Online black markets once lurked in the shadows of the dark web. Today, they’ve moved onto public platforms like Telegram—and are racking up historic illicit fortunes. www.wired.com/story/expire...
Chinese Crypto Scammers on Telegram Are Fueling the Biggest Darknet Markets Ever
Online black markets once lurked in the shadows of the dark web. Today, they’ve moved onto public platforms like Telegram—and are racking up historic illicit fortunes.
www.wired.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Count on Telegram to bring depravity and lawlessness into peoples’ pockets around the world. It’s like a universal bulletproof hoster that allows every scammer and criminal to set up shop, no technical skills required.
Russian word of the year according to Gramota.ru is зумер (name for a Gen-Z person), narrowly beating out выгорание (burnout), ред-флаг (red flag), and промрт (prompt).
December 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Russian word of the year according to Gramota.ru is зумер (name for a Gen-Z person), narrowly beating out выгорание (burnout), ред-флаг (red flag), and промрт (prompt).
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Oh. 👀 Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments, by @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...
www.propublica.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Oh. 👀 Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments, by @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
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Germany's Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius: “The only person who can immediately stop the war is Putin. Despite the efforts of Americans, Europeans, and Ukrainians to achieve a ceasefire, there are no signals from Moscow that Putin is interested in ending the war.”
December 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Germany's Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius: “The only person who can immediately stop the war is Putin. Despite the efforts of Americans, Europeans, and Ukrainians to achieve a ceasefire, there are no signals from Moscow that Putin is interested in ending the war.”
In the Russian city of Uzlovaya in Tula oblast, 39yo A.V. Federov is sentenced to 1 year and 9 months corrective labor for hacking online gaming accounts in February and March 2021. Sometimes it is really hard to understand Russian cybercrime investigative priorities. Did he hack the mayor’s kid?
December 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
In the Russian city of Uzlovaya in Tula oblast, 39yo A.V. Federov is sentenced to 1 year and 9 months corrective labor for hacking online gaming accounts in February and March 2021. Sometimes it is really hard to understand Russian cybercrime investigative priorities. Did he hack the mayor’s kid?
RBC reports a 44% increase in cryptocurrency mining in Russia over the past year, with around 196,900 units active now. In 2024, there had been only a 7% increase in mining. Growth in spite of the fact that several Russian regions have banned mining due to strain on electrical infrastructure.
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
RBC reports a 44% increase in cryptocurrency mining in Russia over the past year, with around 196,900 units active now. In 2024, there had been only a 7% increase in mining. Growth in spite of the fact that several Russian regions have banned mining due to strain on electrical infrastructure.
Hidden in a new law about online tobacco sales moving through the Russian Duma: a requirement that users registering Russian Internet domains in the TLDs .RU .РФ .SU identify themselves through the Gosuslugi government portal. No anonymous domains.
December 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hidden in a new law about online tobacco sales moving through the Russian Duma: a requirement that users registering Russian Internet domains in the TLDs .RU .РФ .SU identify themselves through the Gosuslugi government portal. No anonymous domains.
Large amounts of Russian data continue to be dumped on the Internet in the form of database leaks. The majority—73%—come from government sources, with retail and the service sector way behind.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8313330
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8313330
Хакеры власть не признают
Более 70% утечек данных в России за год пришлось на госсектор
www.kommersant.ru
December 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Large amounts of Russian data continue to be dumped on the Internet in the form of database leaks. The majority—73%—come from government sources, with retail and the service sector way behind.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8313330
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8313330
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How would this be worded any differently if it were issued by the Kremlin?
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
How would this be worded any differently if it were issued by the Kremlin?
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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at the development and evolution of organized crime in the Soviet Union. This includes the Thieves World, The Thief Law, and the Thief in Law. We look at how 1/2
youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc
youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc
December 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at the development and evolution of organized crime in the Soviet Union. This includes the Thieves World, The Thief Law, and the Thief in Law. We look at how 1/2
youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc
youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc
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Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
Happy Winter Solstice! As of a few minutes ago, it is winter in the northern hemisphere. Today is the shortest and darkest day of the year. After today, everything starts getting brighter, a little bit every day. Hope you are having a good holiday season!
December 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy Winter Solstice! As of a few minutes ago, it is winter in the northern hemisphere. Today is the shortest and darkest day of the year. After today, everything starts getting brighter, a little bit every day. Hope you are having a good holiday season!
Grim statistics quantifying the growing repression in Russia: 2025 has been a record-breaking year for prosecutions for treason, espionage, covert cooperation with foreign organizations, and aiding the enemy, according to research for the rights group Perviy Otdel. 1/
www.svoboda.org/a/pervyy-otd...
www.svoboda.org/a/pervyy-otd...
"Первый отдел": 2025 год стал рекордным по приговорам за шпионаж
Вынесены 468 приговоров
www.svoboda.org
December 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Grim statistics quantifying the growing repression in Russia: 2025 has been a record-breaking year for prosecutions for treason, espionage, covert cooperation with foreign organizations, and aiding the enemy, according to research for the rights group Perviy Otdel. 1/
www.svoboda.org/a/pervyy-otd...
www.svoboda.org/a/pervyy-otd...
The first veteran of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine to be granted a funeral in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior is… Sergey Orlov, head of the Espaniola unit made up of violent soccer thugs? An honor usually reserved for major national figures.
www.agents.media/komandir-ult...
www.agents.media/komandir-ult...
Командир ультраправой бригады «Эспаньола» станет первым участником войны в Украине, с которым простятся в храме Христа Спасителя • «Агентство»
Церемония прощания с создателем ультраправой бригады «Эспаньола» Сергеем «Испанцем» Орловым, который погиб при загадочных обстоятельствах, пройдет 22 декабря в храме Христа Спасителя в центре Москвы, ...
www.agents.media
December 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The first veteran of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine to be granted a funeral in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior is… Sergey Orlov, head of the Espaniola unit made up of violent soccer thugs? An honor usually reserved for major national figures.
www.agents.media/komandir-ult...
www.agents.media/komandir-ult...
Putin’s Russia has made “traditional values” almost a State ideology. As this video graphically shows, society needs to move on from some of those traditions.
Well, Putin met his current girlfriend when she was 17.
December 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Putin’s Russia has made “traditional values” almost a State ideology. As this video graphically shows, society needs to move on from some of those traditions.
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Appalling and alarming:
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Appalling and alarming:
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Ukrainian national Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak pleaded guilty to his role in launching Netflix ransomware attacks. He faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison.
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ukrai...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ukrai...
Ukrainian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Use Nefilim Ransomware to Attack Companies in the United States and Other Countries
A Ukrainian national pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud for his role in a series of international ransomware attacks.
www.justice.gov
December 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ukrainian national Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak pleaded guilty to his role in launching Netflix ransomware attacks. He faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison.
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ukrai...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ukrai...
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Former CIA officer @johnsipher.bsky.social joins Chris to unpack what the West gets wrong about Russian intelligence—from hostile counterintelligence to Putin’s use of active measures and reflexive control.
🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8
🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Former CIA officer @johnsipher.bsky.social joins Chris to unpack what the West gets wrong about Russian intelligence—from hostile counterintelligence to Putin’s use of active measures and reflexive control.
🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8
🎧 Audio: pod.fo/e/36a59d
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/EfRdJ98XJz8
People I grew up with watch this dangerous rabble-rousing daily and think they are getting the straight dope that the mainstream media is ignoring. 😱
1. “F*ck you Ben Shapiro and the midget horse you rode in on.”
Candace Owens, responding to Ben Shapiro’s speech at Turning Point USA, mainlines unquestionable Neo-Nazi propaganda, including dangerous Talmudic conspiracies.
Candace Owens, responding to Ben Shapiro’s speech at Turning Point USA, mainlines unquestionable Neo-Nazi propaganda, including dangerous Talmudic conspiracies.
December 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
People I grew up with watch this dangerous rabble-rousing daily and think they are getting the straight dope that the mainstream media is ignoring. 😱
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“Facing an economic spiral and depleted conventional forces, Vladimir Putin is entering a window of maximum danger. We must prepare not for a resurgent Russia but for a desperate one: 2026 will be the year of hybrid escalation.”
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
Russia is Losing – Time for Putin's 2026 Hybrid Escalation
2025 offered the most generous potential off-ramp for Vladimir Putin. He rejected it.
www.rusi.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“Facing an economic spiral and depleted conventional forces, Vladimir Putin is entering a window of maximum danger. We must prepare not for a resurgent Russia but for a desperate one: 2026 will be the year of hybrid escalation.”
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
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For folks going through the recently released files and need a better process, I would suggest you take a look at @micahflee.com book Hacks, Leaks and Revelations
hacksandleaks.com/contents.html
hacksandleaks.com/contents.html
Contents - Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations
Buy Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data by Micah Lee.
hacksandleaks.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
For folks going through the recently released files and need a better process, I would suggest you take a look at @micahflee.com book Hacks, Leaks and Revelations
hacksandleaks.com/contents.html
hacksandleaks.com/contents.html
Russian MVD head Kolokoltsev reports on Hydra, one of the most successful DNMs in history. From one key figure alone 39 properties and a luxury car were seized. In 2024, Stanislav Moiseev, one of the organizers, was sentenced to life in prison. /1
December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Russian MVD head Kolokoltsev reports on Hydra, one of the most successful DNMs in history. From one key figure alone 39 properties and a luxury car were seized. In 2024, Stanislav Moiseev, one of the organizers, was sentenced to life in prison. /1
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Russia is responsible for destructive and disruptive cyberattacks against Denmark
PDF: www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...
PDF: www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...
www.fe-ddis.dk
December 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Russia is responsible for destructive and disruptive cyberattacks against Denmark
PDF: www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...
PDF: www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...
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1/2 Excerpts from French Senator, Claude Malhuret’s Speech (Dec 15, 2025)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIdD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIdD...
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
1/2 Excerpts from French Senator, Claude Malhuret’s Speech (Dec 15, 2025)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIdD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIdD...
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