Mark Karayan

Steal 45GB of data from MSG and nobody panics...But you steal one trashcan from MSG, well then everyone loses their minds!

"Somehow, despite never submitting any of the paperwork they sent me -not the background check or identification info, not the domestic violence affidavit, none of it- ICE had apparently offered me a job." slate.com/news-and-pol...

Someone needs to write a more in-depth story about how Kim Jong Un is the OG diamond hands crypto bro. They were stealing Bitcoin when it was worth less than $1,000 and doubt they spent all of it at once. The amount they likely have in reserve that's gone up in value must be astronomical

Germany links 2024 cyberattack on German air traffic control to Russia's APT28. therecord.media/germany-summ... "APT28 has a long history of intrusions into logistics and transportation. In many cases it appears to be tied to a requirement to surveil military movements." - @hultquist.bsky.social

Might be one of the funniest lines written in sports journalism: "Off-ice officials realized that Mikkola couldn't have had an assist on the play -- since he had been ejected earlier in the period." www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...

Is it time to rename the "Streisand effect" to the "Kimmel effect"?

Breweries in every state need to collaborate to sell 12-packs, each containing their respective seasonal pumpkin beer, and brand it as a “pumpkin patch”.

This is also what junior Mandiant analysts say when they're being briefed on graduated threat groups.

We going to get an explanation on why half of Section 8 and all of Section 9 in Article 1 was removed from the online version of the U.S. Constitution on the Congress.gov site? Would love to see @politico.com or someone look into this web.archive.org/web/diff/202...

When the DnD party consisting of knights and Paladins rolls through town

VPN providers today

Can't wait to watch this @mikko.bsky.social! press.wbd.com/us/media-rel...

🔴SharePoint vulnerability update: "We assess that at least one of the actors responsible for this early exploitation is a China-nexus threat actor," Mandiant/Google Cloud CTO Charles Carmakal says in a statement sent to me just now. My earlier reporting: www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

Coinbase went full Les Grossman www.coinbase.com/blog/protect... "Instead of paying the $20 million ransom, we’re establishing a $20 million reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the attackers"

Tired: White smoke to announce a new Pope Wired: Catholic Priest DJing EDM to announce a new Pope www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuoJ...

Missed opportunity from CNN on picking the right photo for this story www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/w...

“So you’re saying less American actors and actresses will travel to France? How very sad for them.” -The French

From his résumé, Thomas from Tennessee looked perfect. A programmer for eight years—and he’d breezed through a coding test. In reality, Thomas is a North Korean IT worker, one of many deployed to work remotely for US companies in a global cybercrime op to bankroll the North Korean government.

Kim Chaek Uni of Tech. DPRK IT Workers supplying money to sanctioned Ryonbong. Client countries: US,UK, JP, UA, CN, BR. Cha Gang Song JangMyongSong KimMunSong Li Song Ryong Mun Ri Yong Kim Su Jin Choe Song Guk Paek Myong Ho Paek Choe Hyon Pyo Se Il Cha Gang Song home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...

The first two episodes of season 2 of The Last of Us is already better than the entire last season of Game of Thrones.

I feel like a North Korean IT Worker being employed by the FAA for a few months should be making bigger headlines. Yes, THAT FAA. All thanks to a Facilitator in Maryland. CC @dustinvolz.bsky.social

So I stuck up for Sean Plankey as future CISA, now time to stick up for Chris Krebs, past CISA - this shit is bonkers and should give pause to anyone even considering federal employment if this kind of shit is what you get for doing your job: www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Me, when a cybersecurity company does an April Fools stunt

What - and I can’t stress this enough - THE EVERLIVING FUCK sfstandard.com/2025/03/27/c...

Canadian customs: What do you have planned during your visit? Me: apologizing for America and watching the Leafs annihilate the Flyers.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...

North Korean threat groups right now

Heading into the weekend with a positive attitude

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"The administration claims this will save money by reducing maintenance costs and moving federal workers into leased office spaces." Imagine if a financial advisor told you to sell your paid-off property and to instead lease in a HCOL city to "save money". finance.yahoo.com/news/payback...

www.inversecos.com/2025/02/an-i... "In total, 54 jump servers and 5 proxy servers were used to perform the attack coming from 17 different countries..."

"This activity is yet another example of the lengths threat actors will go through to find novel methods to compromise sensitive, encrypted communications." - @danwblack.bsky.social Update your Signal app folks cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

"The employees were fired “without cause nor based on performance or conduct,” Spero said, and the emails were “from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address” — not a government email address." apnews.com/article/doge...

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access. It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

Lollll

Mahomes is going to be qualified start a landscaping business after the game if he keeps spending this much time face down in the grass

God damn it…she’s right y’all. Half-way through eating one I was regretting my choices, but then something magical happens

"The North Koreans also wrote him real-time answers through the Virtual Machine’s Notepad feature, Aidan said." Someday a North Korean IT Worker is going to defect and make a killing working as a FAANG career coach... sashaingber.substack.com/p/the-23-yea...