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Matthijs R. Koot

@cyberwar.nl

IT, privacy, security, democracy. PhD. PGP: 51F9 8FC9 C92A 1165 (http://keybase.io/mrkoot). Employed as IT security specialist. Mastodon: @mrkoot@infosec.exchange LinkedIn: /in/mrkoot

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Tor Project@torproject.org · 2d ago

🚨 New app alert! Android app called Snowflake Volunteer for those willing to help people reach the Tor network and circumvent censorship from their mobile devices. Built open-source by Bloco, an Android app studio from Portugal. ❄️👉 blog.torproject.org/snowflake-vo...

Snowflake Volunteer, an Android app to help people bypass censorship | Tor Project

There are many ways to help people bypass censorship with Snowflake–a browser extension, using Orbot or Tor Browser, website embedding etc. We set out to experiment with a new mechanism and test an An...

blog.torproject.org

Anti-Fascism and Far Right@ffrafaction.bsky.social · 4d ago

Users on a niche far-right imageboard dedicated to coordinating online harassment campaigns have spent the last year developing artificial intelligence tools meant to help them surface private personal information for the targets of their abuse - aka ‘doxxing’ openmeasures.io/soyjak-ai-do...

Users on This Far-Right Imageboard Are Building ‘Fully Autonomous AI Doxxing’ Tools - Open Measures

Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online content that impacts public discourse and global events.

openmeasures.io

Peter Schrijver@psguu.bsky.social · last wk.

Short note to highlight today's charges against Telegram founder Pavel Durov and my own research into the use of Telegram by the Ukrainian intelligence services: ‘Neutral Telegram’ has become contested intelligence infrastructure; Durov is standing in the middle of it substack.com/@peterschrij...

Peter Schrijver (@peterschrijver672321)

‘Neutral Telegram’ has become contested intelligence infrastructure; Durov is standing in the middle of it Today, on 29 July 2026, the Russian security service FSB charged Telegram founder Pavel Duro...

substack.com

Matthijs R. Koot@cyberwar.nl · 2w ago

Re: possible misuse of espionage in Serbia, involving the “Pixel Move” mobile phone tracking device by the Bulgarian company Circles which is capable of intercepting voice communications, messages and internet traffic: thegeopost.com/en/news/komi...

European Commission concerned about HRW findings on possible misuse of espionage in Serbia - The Geopost

Share the newsThe European Commission has expressed concern about reports of possible misuse of spy and forensic tools for mobile phones to

thegeopost.com

Martin Matishak@martinmatishak.bsky.social · 4w ago

The structure was briefed to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week when he visited Fort Meade, Maryland, which is home to both NSA and U.S. Cyber Command. The Pentagon chief shared a picture of a TAO hat he had signed on his official X account. therecord.media/nsa-revives-...

NSA revives 'Tailored Access Operations' name for elite hacking unit

NSA last week changed the moniker of its Office of Computer Network Operations (CNO) back to Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a name that is sure to elicit nostalgia among the broader digital communi...

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Saskia Dekkers@saskiadekkers.bsky.social · 4w ago

« The real damage, however, is psychological and political. While we were able to remove the threats from our systems, what we cannot so easily remove is the knowledge that a dictatorship’s security service has walked all over our private and professional lives. That feeling stays.»

Szabolcs Panyi@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 4w ago

👀🕵️ Russian SVR and GRU hackers spent a month inside a Belgrade think tank's inboxes, reading 28K emails. As Serbia heads toward elections, the attack reveals a darker pattern: Moscow and Belgrade often chase the same enemies. Read @vsquare.bsky.social's interview with @srdjancvijic.bsky.social👇

Huib Modderkolk@huibmodderkolk.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: Despite persistent warnings from American and British officials, Dutch intelligence agencies refused to believe Putin would invade Ukraine in 2022. Insiders reveal how it all went so wrong. ‘This was the highest-stakes game I’ve ever played.’ www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

‘Unique source’ blinded Dutch intelligence agencies to Putin’s invasion: ‘What a fuck-up’

Despite persistent warnings from American and British officials, the Dutch intelligence agencies refused to believe Putin would invade Ukraine in 2022. An investigation by de Volkskrant reveals how…

volkskrant.nl

Jason Kikta@kikta.net · 4w ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA No idea what the specific impetus was, but years of yolo posting random crap and ignoring DoD regulations on social media certainly didn’t help.

A tweet by the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade: Effective immediately, the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) is not an Army organization authorized to manage an official social media account and is directed to close and archive all brigade accounts pursuant to the Army records management policy. The @780thC is as a Major Subordinate Command under the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, while also serving under the operational control of U.S. Army Cyber Command. You are invited to subscribe to their social media pages. The Brigade is waiting on further instructions; however, it has been a privilege to be in this space. [picture with unit logo and text] Effective immediately, the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) is not an Army organization authorized to manage an official social media presence and is directed to close and archive all accounts pursuant to the Army records management policy. The 780 MI BDE (CY) is as a Major Subordinate Command under the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, while also serving under the operational control of U.S. Army Cyber Command. You are invited to subscribe to their social media pages. It has been a privilege to be in this space.
Bart Groothuis@bartgroothuis.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here’s the action plan from the European Commission digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/e... Here are the recommendations for businesses by ENISA www.enisa.europa.eu/publications...

EU Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

The European Commission has presented an Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence to support the safe and responsible use of AI while strengthening Europe's cybersecurity.

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

Bart Groothuis@bartgroothuis.bsky.social · 4w ago

Business leaders should take good note of the action plan on AI and cyber security the European Commission and ENISA put forward today. It’s not business as usual anymore. You have a few months to fix software vulnerabilities and the recommendations below will help you to do so 👇

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change “We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs

The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...

404media.co

Max Bernhard@mxbernhard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The director of Russia’s FSB ... cautioned regional security chiefs last week that Russia’s vast surveillance apparatus had become a vulnerability — turning the authoritarian regime’s tools to monitor its own citizens into a weakness its enemies could exploit" www.ft.com/content/6f4d...

New AI espionage powers trigger Putin camera scare

Russia paused surveillance system after killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader exposed how AI can be used on CCTV data to target enemies

ft.com