The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) claims that Stern, the leader of the Trickbot and Conti cybercrime gangs, is a 36-year-old Russian named Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/germany-doxxes-conti-ransomware-and-trickbot-ring-leader/

The future is here...

#AI

Well, well, well, look who just got sanctioned in the EU: Stark Industries Solutions! It's about freaking time.

I spent about six months last year researching and writing a deep dive into Stark, its origins, owners and ties to Russian disinformation campaigns and DDoS.

Here's the EU annoucement: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/05/20/russia-s-war-of-aggression-against-ukraine-eu-agrees-17th-package-of-sanctions/

Here's my story from last year: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/stark-industries-solutions-an-iron-hammer-in-the-cloud/

Initial Access! Danger .rdp file delivery! encoded rdp files autorunning connections on delivery
https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/rogue-rdp-revisiting-initial-access-methods/

New by me - breaking down the attacks on UK highstreet retailers

https://doublepulsar.com/dragonforce-ransomware-cartel-attacks-on-uk-high-street-retailers-walking-in-the-front-door-52ed8ba68534

From @cyb3rops

https://blog.cloudflare.com/password-reuse-rampant-half-user-logins-compromised/

the only way for cloudflare to have this data is if it is inside the ssl channel, analyzing traffic to their customers who are logging in.

ssssoooooooo i guess this makes the cloudflare logs a massive target for nation states now?

https://youtube.com/shorts/NIOlSPUhB3I?si=-J44IN6zJm7M_fdW

US Senator calls out state interference and IT systems lockout by DOGE #USSenator #StateInterference #ITSystems #Doge

1,000 buildings destroyed in Pacific Palisades fire in Los Angeles
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #PalisadeFire

@agreenberg @micahflee

Billionaires destroyed constitutional democracy in the USA to enrich themselves at the expense of the taxpayers & voters.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/doge-deregulation-donald-trump-elon-musk-1235190794/

Hans Gruber has started his descent. Happy Holidays!

#diehardisachristmasmovie

@GossiTheDog Only buying EDR after the ransom event.

@GossiTheDog 🤮 When tech is part of the problem, not the solution as it was 20 years ago 😢

@carnage4life Elon publicly stating he doesn't like Sam Altman after having worked with him. Who to be most wary of Elon or Sam? Maybe both

@carnage4life When ActiveSync became available for the iPhone March 2008 then iphone3G launched July 2008 is when it killed RIM Blackberry business phones

@GossiTheDog Pretty sure hes going to use AI to help slash jobs in the public sector

@carnage4life I'm pretty sure they're going to try out the "your role can be replaced with AI" across the public sector board and many thousands of jobs will go.

@dannyjpalmer Hope it returns to working order soon. Recently invested in one from XUM myself

@GossiTheDog Its the Musk future whether we want it or not. We've seen the Sci-Fi films, now we can witness the change to Robocop, Total Recall and Running man in real-time.

@elonmusk Had to check how real this was and found the transcript on the Trump website. Point 4 will affect a lot of companies including cyber - https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/president-donald-j-trump-free-speech-policy-initiative