Raphael Satter

Raphael Satter

@raphae.li

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Raphael Satter
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SAO PAULO - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented fourth term […] in a shock result that defied polls, precedent and global ​anti-incumbent sentiment to put the brakes on a wave of right-wing election victories across Latin America. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

reuters.comLula, Brazil's iconic working class president, wins fourth term in dramatic comebackSenator Flavio Bolsonaro had finished first in the election's first round. The shock result defied polls, precedent and global ​anti-incumbent sentiment to put the brakes on a wave of right-wing elect...
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New: Serbian opposition to take power after Vucic concedes. Spyware angle: Researchers say they've found evidence that at least 16 opponents were put under digital surveillance, some using the notorious Pegasus phone hacking tool. www.reuters.com/world/europe... bsky.app/profile/raph...

reuters.comSerbia's Vucic concedes defeat to student led movement in parliamentary electionSerbia's Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat to ​the student-led protest movement in ‌parliamentary elections on Sunday.
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New: Serbian opposition figures have been targeted using spyware — including one who was allegedly hacking using Pegasus. The country’s parliamentary election is Sunday. www.reuters.com/technology/t...

reuters.comTwo Serbian opposition figures targeted with spyware, research group saysTwo Serbian opposition figures were recently targeted with powerful cyberespionage tools, according to one of the men and a report issued on Monday by the Canadian cyber watchdog group ​Citizen Lab.
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I imagine their "for you" feed gets better as you subscribe to more publications but yikes that's depressing.

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SEVEN months later, Navigate360 has a statement out: www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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I received this statement from Navigate360 overnight: "We are currently working to determine whether we have experienced an incident involving our computer network and, if so, the extensiveness of the incident and the information involved." Our story: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Scoop: Matthew Prince of Cloudflare tells me and @ajvicens.bsky.social he is aware of "a bunch of additional severe vulnerabilities that are present in other pieces of critical software." Experts are forecasting more PHP-style update scrambles around the corner. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

reuters.comAI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts sayAdvances in artificial intelligence have uncovered a stream of new software vulnerabilities that are almost ​certain to trigger more disruption along the lines of the outages that percolated across gl...
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The way this story is written it suggests -- but stops short of saying outright -- that, thanks to a turncoat in Russian military intelligence, the Dutch discovered the iOS vulnerability that the Russians had been using take screenshots of Jared Kushner's phone and helped themselves to it.

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The story doesn't say outright that the Dutch used the Russians' method for getting into the phone, instead saying that they "found a vulnerability." Curious. Also curious that a vulnerability would allow a spy service to take screenshots but not steal files. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

vanityfair.comThe Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in TransfersAn exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former sen...

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Eric Geller
@ericjgeller.com

My takeaway from this is that Trump sees his national cyber director all the time!

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Trump: National cyber director Sean... Camin... chkro... Where are you Sean? Where da hell... I gotta get this name so perfeck. Cairncross.

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Charles Mok
@charlesmok.bsky.social

- Dutch, French, Danish, and Finnish govts take sites offline as hackers exploit weaknesses - European and Asian cyber agencies urge users to update or take sites down immediately - PHP developers say fix is now live, prompting scramble to update sites across the web www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

reuters.comGovernment websites go dark after AI-discovered flaw sparks security scrambleGovernment websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline on Wednesday after the disclosure of ​critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language sent website operators around the world sc...

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Frank Bajak
@fbajak.bsky.social

For three days last week, Elon Musk’s throttling of Starshield satellite Internet service dropped many Ukrainian attack drones from the sky. It saved ”many lives and many trucks for Russia” and cost Ukraine “much more blood, our blood“ a UKR assault unit leader says. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/w...

nytimes.comWhen Starshield Cut Out, Ukrainian Drones Fell From the SkiesUkraine says it still doesn’t know why the military satellite internet service, a sister to Starlink, was abruptly throttled, leaving troops vulnerable to Russian attacks.
Raphael Satter
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I know there's been debate since the emergence of Mythos over what these cyber capable models will mean for the internet in practice. Some said from the beginning that a 'vulnpocalypse' was upon us; others were more skeptical. Six months on from the release of Mythos, has anyone switched sides?