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Aaron Stephens

@x04steve

@Mandiant Intelligence 🦅 Enabling analysts with tools and automation, usually in Python. Music is cool too.

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calendar_today13-08-2014 21:37:21

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Alexander Leslie(@aejleslie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Unreal. 👏🏻 🚓 🚨

“A transnational cybercrime operation was taken down this week after law enforcement agencies from 34 countries coordinated on nearly 3,500 arrests and the seizure of about $300 million in stolen funds.”

(via jon greig / The Record From Recorded Future News) therecord.media/interpol-seize…

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Dan Black(@DanWBlack) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Is there another example where a country has directly self-attributed a wiper like this?

gur.gov.ua/content/zlam-f…

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BleepingComputer(@BleepinComputer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kelvin Security hacking group leader arrested in Spain - Bill Toulas
bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

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Tom Winter(@Tom_Winter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING | NBC News: There have been multiple people shot as a result of an active shooter incident on the campus of UNLV near Beam Hall in Las Vegas, NV, according to police.

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Heidi Przybyla 🌺(@HeidiReports) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW @POLITICO Investigation: most conservative briefs in high-profile cases have links to a small cadre of activists aligned with Leonard Leo.

A first-of-its-kind review confirming the following:
(THREAD)

Video:
politico.com/video/2023/11/…

Story:
politico.com/news/2023/12/0…

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Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸(@alexplitsas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“A former American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s government” apnews.com/article/fbi-cu…

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Andrew Thompson(@ImposeCost) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Threat reduction state on state is very hard, which is why I imagine it wasn't emphasized much in cybersecurity thought leadership. Threat reduction, absent a decisive war, comes after many years of effective employment of tools of national power if ever.

However, now that…

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Kevin Collier(@kevincollier) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Jaw on the floor. Victor Zhora sacked. He'd became, astoundingly, a fixture at US cyber conferences, taking a train to Poland to fly to here multiple times a year to give talks and court government and private sector cyber folks while the war raged.
reuters.com/world/europe/t…

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Kaitlan Collins(@kaitlancollins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

President Biden, in a very forceful statement, makes his stance clear and says he told Prime Minister Netanyahu that if what happened to Israel happened to the U.S., the response would be “swift and decisive.”

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John Scott-Railton(@jsrailton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨BREAKING: mercenary spyware targeting across / X replies to:

❌🇺🇸 US congresspeople
❌ 🇪🇺EU & Asian officials
❌ Journalists

Reports by Amnesty Tech w/independent investigation & confirmation by us Citizen Lab 1/
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

🚨BREAKING: #predator mercenary spyware targeting across #Twitter/ @X replies to: ❌🇺🇸 US congresspeople ❌ 🇪🇺EU & Asian officials ❌ Journalists Reports by @AmnestyTech w/independent investigation & confirmation by us @citizenlab 1/ amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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Wesley Shields(@wxs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You owe me the crispest of high fives, Steve. I'd add check marks next to debug and load config but I don't do emojis in tweets. ;)

github.com/VirusTotal/yar…

I'll take this opportunity to talk about how to solve the bootstrapping problem here. It's a long thread, so buckle up!

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Andrew Thompson(@ImposeCost) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Part of the issue with the arguments I'm seeing about the labels used to describe intrusion group attribution is the projected assumption that the label is inherently intended to represent a solid line and block hierarchical structure instead of other options to include ephemeral…

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Jessica Berlin(@berlin_bridge) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have unofficial confirmation from 🇺🇦 sources: Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Viktor was killed in today’s strike in .
Sokolov personally ordered missile strikes on civilian targets in & would’ve been indicted as a war criminal had he survived.

I have unofficial confirmation from 🇺🇦 sources: Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Viktor #Sokolov was killed in today’s strike in #Sevastopol. Sokolov personally ordered missile strikes on civilian targets in #Ukraine & would’ve been indicted as a war criminal had he survived.
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Aaron Stephens(@x04steve) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Always nice to see others profile network infrastructure using scan data. The hard part with vendors like this is always attribution boundaries. citizenlab.ca/2023/09/predat…

Always nice to see others profile network infrastructure using scan data. The hard part with vendors like this is always attribution boundaries. citizenlab.ca/2023/09/predat…
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