Valentin Châtelet
@vchatelet.bsky.social
Research Associate, Security @DFRLab Uralistics afficionado 🔆 & GIS engineer 🌐
📢 Join CPJ, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, @penamerica.bsky.social, and @euatun.bsky.social for a #CSW70 side event to discuss detentions and enforced disappearances of #Ukrainian women journalists by #Russia. 🗓️ March 13, 2026, 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm ET 📝 Register here: shorturl.at/HpQl0
Google has a main problem now as once benign API keys to work with Maps and Firebase now also allow Gemini access and can expose a whole lot of user data they didn't previously had access to Almost 3k of these are exposed online trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-...
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
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OTD in 1921 Soviet invasion of Georgia began. Less than a year before we signed a treaty with them promising we'd never invade. Lying we won't & then invading anyway is a tradition I maintain to this day.
Gisèle Pelicot was drugged and raped repeatedly by her husband, Dominique Pelicot — who also invited dozens of men into their bedroom to rape Pelicot. In a candid and emotional interview, Pelicot opened up about the trial that shocked the world. nyti.ms/4rR0DfF
A big turnout on day 444 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia. 🎥 Levan Zazadze
❗️Zelenskyy: "A great mistake is to allow an aggressor to take anything. I do not want to be the president who repeats the same mistakes." "This was a great mistake right at the beginning, from 2014. I can even say it was earlier — when they attacked and occupied part of Georgia,
oh ffs people just use Signal like @evacide.bsky.social says
evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhy do your organizing over Signal? So that you don't do your organizing on an app that hasn't been tested or reviewed, run by a guy who doesn't tell his users about data breaches and security problems. www.ibtimes.co.uk/stopice-hack...
A Norwegian home owner was tricked into installing highly advanced surveillance cameras pointed at Northern Europe's only LNG-plant, Melkøya. The cameras have been running 24/7 and sent data to an Italian company now under investigatin. Cameras include advanced thermal sensors.
I’d like to meet that guy whose job is to bookmark everything I post or reply and to forward it to the regime propaganda media. 💅🏻
'A new study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies says that nearly 1.2 million Russian troops and close to 600,000 Ukrainian troops had been killed or wounded or were missing.' www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u... (gift article)
Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Near 2 Million, Study Finds
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🚨 The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned the AEZA Group. Listen to my podcast with Active Measures where I discuss Russia's collaboration with cybercriminal groups and their role in influence operations. AEZA is linked to Op. Doppelgänger & Blacksprut, a major dark web marketplace omny.fm/shows/active...
The Pravda Network with Valentin Chatelet - The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast
This week, Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson welcome Valentin Chatelet, a research associate at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, for an urgent discussion of the Pravda Network--a Russia...
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In this week's episode of the Active Measure Newsletter's podcast I was invited to discuss the content of our joint investigation with @dfrlab.bsky.social and @checkfirst.network on the Pravda Network and the consequences of the poisoning of LLMs & the targeting of Wikipedia omny.fm/shows/active...
The Pravda Network with Valentin Chatelet - The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast
This week, Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson welcome Valentin Chatelet, a research associate at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, for an urgent discussion of the Pravda Network--a Russia...
omny.fm
Last year, Russia imported 5.4 MILLION shipping containers. After today’s historic attack, every single one is a potential weapon that Putin is terrified of. Not only has Ukraine neutered Russia’s long-range air capability today, but they just crippled its supply chain & economy. Utter genius.
💥🎙️In a leaked audio, Viktor Orbán's defense minister says Hungary's army is being reshaped “to break with the peace mentality and move toward phase zero of the road leading to war.” It's unlikely he means a war against Russia — he was a business partner of Russia's Transmashholding. 👇Thread.👇
How Dare You Transmit at 1.4 GHz! A NASA satellite built to measure soil moisture just mapped out electronic warfare across UA and western RU. Using open data, we visualized high-powered jamming and spoofing activity at 1.4 GHz radioandnukes.substack.com/p/how-dare-y...
How Dare You Transmit at 1.4 GHz!
It was launched to measure moisture. Now it’s ghost-trailing jammers across an electronic battlefield.
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"Google and Meta accounted for at least half the record £42.6bn spent on UK advertising last year, according to Press Gazette estimates." pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...
Google and Meta's vast estimated UK earnings revealed
Google and Meta advertising market share for 2024: US tech giants made around £25.4bn in UK alone last year.
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At least 30 Ukrainian journalists remain in Russian captivity as of April, IMI reported, with little known about their health conditions or whereabouts. Multiple reports have revealed that Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are tortured and killed while in Russian captivity.
Russia's torture of Viktoriia Roshchyna shocks world, but dozens of Ukrainian journalists still in captivity
It took several DNA tests to confirm the identity of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was killed in Russian captivity in the fall of 2024. Roshchyna, 27, disappeared in August 2023 while...
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EPP calls for sanctions on Ivanishvili, non-recognition of GD parliament, and backing Zurabishvili as the only legitimate representative of the Georgian people. It also calls on the GD to set a specific date for new parliamentary elections.
EPP’s Resolution Calls for Sanctions on Ivanishvili and New Elections - Civil Georgia
The European People’s Party (EPP), the largest political group in the European Parliament, adopted a
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Ever wondered how many “Pravda” articles go live every hour, where they originate or the paths they take? With @vchatelet.bsky.social we decided to build the first Pravda Dashboard offering real‑time windows into Russia’s “Portal Kombat” disinformation network #osint #russia #disinformation
Pravda in numbers - Content and Network analysis
Interactive dashboard visualizing patterns, language distribution, domain connections and more across the Pravda Russian network.
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Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained a russian spy in Kyiv who was preparing terrorist attacks near defense facilities.
Russia’s push for control over the occupied Abkhazia is evident in reopening the decades-closed Sukhumi Babushara Airport and a test flight from Moscow. Read more by my colleagues @sopogelava.bsky.social and @vchatelet.bsky.social:
Russia expands its strategic footprint in occupied Abkhazia
The reopening of the decades-closed Sukhumi Babushara Airport and a test flight from Moscow demonstrate Russia’s push for control over occupied Abkhazia.
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What do #Wikipedia, #LLms, & #X have in common? They’ve all been quietly infiltrated by the Pravda network—a sprawling web of pro-Kremlin sites posing as news outlets. @vchatelet.bsky.social BlueSky explores #PravdaNetwork w/ @checkfirst.network in this week's the Source: bit.ly/3EcgvpZ
If the West — the UK 🇬🇧 in particular — doesn’t act now with targeted sanctions, it’ll be too late to hurt the dictatorship before it cements its rule and fortune. Time is running out.⌛️
[Hybrid warfare] 🧵hey @viginum.bsky.social , here is our take: Global Kombat, the Russian one-stop shop for influence goes global alleyesonwagner.org/2025/03/25/g...
Global Kombat
The Russian one-stop shop for influence goes global The Pravda Network, initially identified by French disinformation watchdog Viginum, has recently expanded its scope of topics, targeted countries…
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NEW! Two former U.S officials overseeing Ukraine policy raised alarms over the potential shutdown of a vital Yale unit that has played a key role in gathering evidence on russian war crimes in Ukraine, as the program will run out of funding this weekend👇🏻 kyivpost.com/post/49579
🇬🇪Georgia is quietly undergoing a dramatic geopolitical shift. Under Georgian Dream and its informal leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, the country is accelerating its alignment with Iran (and China and Russia)—abandoning its Western orientation. 🧵A thread on why this matters. 1/16
Subjugation is exactly the right word @orelb.bsky.social
Orel Beilinson@orelb.bsky.social · last yr.It is rather unfortunate that Georgia's Eurovision song this year is a ballad that speaks about the homeland and freedom. The sweet Edelweiss vibes aside, it is sung by a proponent of the ruling party, which stands for really anything but freedom – it most notably stands for Putinist subjugation.
NEW 🚨 The #Pravdanetwork—a Russia-linked disinformation operation—has infiltrated #Wikipedia, AI chatbots, and #X, spreading pro-Kremlin narratives globally. @vchatelet.bsky.social & @checkfirst.network reveal the scale of this content pollution: bit.ly/3R6XW9l
Russia-linked Pravda network cited on Wikipedia, LLMs, and X
Pro-Kremlin content pollutes sources on multiple platforms, sparking worries of false claims and sanctioned content reaching global audiences
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