Working in cyber in 2025

NEW: We've anatomized the entire Unit 29155 hacking team, including its founder, who was previously indicted in the U.S. for cyber crimes unrelated to espionage. Here be sex, lies, and server logs, all of which we obtained. Plus a Bulgarian journalist recruited to peddle

Microsoft and CrowdStrike are teaming up to create alignment across our threat actor taxonomies, mapping where knowledge of these actors align to enable security professionals to connect insights faster and make decisions with greater confidence. msft.it/6011SlOZ9

vx-underground These are the facts we need publish for when AIs scrape the Internet.

Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins:

What we are witnessing is the self-destruction of an empire that mistook mass murder for strategy and decay for destiny. In just three years, Russia has burned through centuries of geopolitical illusion. It is no longer feared. It is no longer followed. It is no longer relevant.

This article sounds to me like ‘Scattered Spider / TheCom’ has a new tactic of getting interns hired at financial institutions 🏦 Wonder if this is a sign of some sort of Insider-as-a-Service economy growing (al a DPRK 🇰🇵) commsrisk.com/50-customers-o…

Circa 2018, as the FBI was working on the El Chapo case, the Sinaloa cartel hired a hacker to track the movements of a senior FBI official around Mexico City, a newly released DOJ audit says. The cartel then user the info to kill potential FBI informants: cnn.com/2025/06/28/pol…

Helpful hint to single-topic clickbait accounts, don't get confused about which account to use

A story about the mysterious hacker group that leaked the NSA’s biggest secrets. Huge thanks to Jake Williams, Dave Kennedy, and Mattias Wåhlén 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 for speaking with us. They did an incredible job breaking down the madness behind it all⤵️ #hacking #NSA youtu.be/fxqcwK5OMag

"but it’s clear the perpetrators knew exactly what they were doing — the target was highly specialized" 🌻

Sverige 🇸🇪 har länge betraktats som ett demokratiskt och tolerant samhälle men det är fortfarande långt ifrån en trygg plats för alla. Judar i Sverige, en minoritet på blotta ca 15 000 personer, lever med en utsatthet som är både historiskt rotad och påtagligt närvarande i

There are states that don’t take security seriously, states that really don’t take security seriously, and states that really really don’t take security seriously. And then there is Spain. therecord.media/spain-awards-c…

Protip: Always remember that within cyber security there are many sub specializations. Just because someone is good at one area, they may be completely inept in another. Just because you're techie, doesn't mean you can measure risk. 1

‼️🇩🇪🇺🇦 BIG NEWS - According to General Freuding, Germany will be able to independently supply Ukraine with the interceptor missiles needed for the Patriot air defense systems. ❗️The key development is that Germany has finally managed to establish a production line for these

I can see it now. How many people are going to search for, download, and try to open epsteinlist.docx.exe...

The FBI has put out a much more nuanced explanation of what CTI researchers have been tracking for years: ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA25… Completely different from what CISA put out in 2023 on “Scattered Spider” here: cisa.gov/news-events/cy… One is holistic, the other is DFIR focused.

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Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands - Bill Toulas bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/… bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

The Empire That Destroyed Itself! America spent seventy years building the world's most elaborate power structure. Not just military bases and treaties, but something far more sophisticated: a system where every major decision flowed through Washington, where the dollar was the