Doesn't make any sense
nostr:nevent1qqsrh7tdwmw3frvgggq3wxx48lswnx0v0cs9udp6ysay93dlsht8hssppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsw8fveyjfne8ul9hurgjg9t6ectrc5sr7ap30dh9wlpzlde5hxvfqrqsqqqqqp4agdqf
US govt officials’ communications compromised in recent telecom hack
By Sergiu Gatlan
November 13, 2024 05:34 PM 0
Telecom hack
CISA and the FBI confirmed that Chinese hackers compromised the "private communications" of a "limited number" of government officials after breaching multiple U.S. broadband providers.
The attackers also stole other information from the companies' compromised systems, including information related to customer call records and law enforcement requests.
"Specifically, we have identified that PRC-affiliated actors have compromised networks at multiple telecommunications companies to enable the theft of customer call records data," the two agencies said in a joint statement issued on Wednesday.
They added that the attackers also compromised the "private communications of a limited number of individuals who are primarily involved in government or political activity" and stole "certain information that was subject to U.S. law enforcement requests pursuant to court orders."
This comes after CISA and the FBI confirmed the hack in late October after reports that a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon (aka Earth Estries, FamousSparrow, Ghost Emperor, and UNC2286) breached multiple broadband providers, including AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies.
Today's joint statement also confirms reports that the threat group had access to U.S. federal government systems used for court-authorized network wiretapping requests.
Hackers reportedly maintained access for months
While it's unknown when the telecom networks were first breached, people familiar with the matter told WSJ that the Chinese hackers had access "for months or longer," which allowed them to collect vast amounts of "internet traffic from internet service providers that count businesses large and small, and millions of Americans, as their customers."
Canada also revealed last month that China-backed threat actors targeted many Canadian government agencies and departments in broad network scans, including federal political parties, the Senate, and the House of Commons.
"They also targeted dozens of organizations, including democratic institutions, critical infrastructure, the defence sector, media organizations, think tanks and NGOs," the Government of Canada said.
Salt Typhoon is a sophisticated hacking group that has been active since at least 2019 and typically focuses on breaching government entities and telecommunications companies in Southeast Asia.
In similar yet unrelated attacks, another Chinese threat group tracked as Volt Typhoon hacked multiple ISPs and MSPs in the United States and India after breaching their corporate networks using credentials stolen by exploiting a Versa Director zero-day.
Actually... it's like 6 am in Moscow.
nostr:nevent1qqsx8p7sm9rda90hw0lqzlqds30srjeram7uu5x0jpyyeuahn3ce7dqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qaeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qxpqqqqqqzrrmuh7
https://www.cna.org/our-media/indepth/2019/07/isis-sinais-violent-start-to-2019
CNA
InDepthA Blog by CNA Experts on Important Issues Facing the Nation and the World
ISIS-Sinai's Violent Start to 2019
President Trump declared the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) defeated in December 2018. But the loss of its territorial “Caliphate” is only part of the longer struggle. ISIS remnants are still active in liberated areas of Iraq and Syria, and ISIS affiliates from West Africa to Southeast Asia continue operations apace. In the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, recent evidence suggests ISIS attacks are actually becoming more deadly.
In November 2017, Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi ordered his defense chief to destroy the ISIS affiliate in the country’s Sinai Peninsula. Three months later, the Egyptian military launched Operation SINAI 2018.
ISIS-Sinai is one of the more proficient ISIS affiliates and has fought a drawn-out insurgency against Egypt — a major U.S. ally — for years. The area in which it primarily operates, the northeast corner of the Sinai Peninsula, also borders on Israel, another significant U.S. ally. For these reasons, diminishing the ISIS-Sinai threat is a U.S. national security objective.
Unfortunately, it’s not going well. Egypt’s Operation SINAI 2018 continues — though that name is no longer used, so as not to remind anyone that the goal was to defeat ISIS-Sinai in three months. Halfway through 2019, ISIS-Sinai violence has been worse than in last half of 2018, and the trend continues to head in the wrong direction.
This analysis is based on ISIS’s figures, which the group has published since July 2018. These are obviously biased numbers, but the global terrorist group’s standardization of its weekly reporting of 1) number of attacks and 2) number of casualties makes it possible to identify trends, even if the numbers come from ISIS itself.
By its own counting, ISIS-Sinai killed or injured nearly 300 Egyptians from January to June 2019. The vast majority of these casualties are police and soldiers. A smaller number are fighters in militia the military has organized to fight the insurgents. The remainder are what ISIS calls “spies” or “collaborators”: locals who are — or at least are accused of — working with the state.
From the last quarter of 2018 to the second quarter of 2019, the number of claimed ISIS-Sinai attacks actually decreased by a quarter, from 81 to 60. But the number of alleged casualties grew to almost two-and-a-half times larger, from 80 to 196, pointing to a change in the type, target, and size of ISIS-Sinai attacks this year.
In the second half of 2018, ISIS-Sinai’s primary method of attack was detonating roadside improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to target Egyptian security forces. In recent years, the Egyptian military has adapted to this tactic by obtaining and operating more mine-resistant vehicles. This meant that when vehicles hit IEDs, the soldiers inside were less likely to be harmed. Attacks targeting individuals were also smaller — either planned to be smaller or simply less successful. From October through December 2018, number of declared casualties (80) was less than the number of declared attacks (81).
The severity of attacks has jumped in 2019, however. From January through March, ISIS-Sinai claimed 101 casualties in 48 attacks. For example, in February the group raided a military checkpoint south of North Sinai’s capital city, Al-Arish, attacking with explosives and gunfire before stealing weapons from the Egyptian army. ISIS-Sinai then nearly doubled its claimed casualty count to 196 in the second quarter of 2019—in just 12 more attacks than the first quarter of the year.
👇👇👇👇👇
From April to July, ISIS-Sinai claimed a number of large attacks, usually targeting Egyptian police checkpoints or convoys. In each of the previous three quarters, the group claimed just one week with a casualty count above 20. In the second quarter of 2019, ISIS-Sinai claimed four such high-impact weeks — allegedly killing or injuring 125 Egyptians in those weeks.
In June 2019, ISIS-Sinai twice successfully attacked Egyptian police checkpoints. Perhaps more worrisome, the group claimed the slaughter of 10 construction workers, whose “crime” was helping the Egyptian military build security infrastructure near the airport of Al-Arish.
The uptick in large militant operations and increase in claimed attacks against Egyptian civilians bodes poorly for Sinai security. This suggests that any positive early effects of Operation SINAI 2018 were not sustained. ISIS-Sinai appears to have recovered from military pressure, and the result for the remainder of 2019 is likely to be more violence.
If someone thinks you're full of shit
Just laugh
They've either made up their mind or baiting
The laughter will trigger their confirmation bias
They will act accordingly
Thusly becoming predictable while you're underestimated
How I feel about most people:
nostr:nevent1qqsfkm0lecvnplgngsuesvlg6zg83hdz38yj08xm7kg6jy0m0665yrgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsdxa405e4kyehla8m50nerhe7watepy3kawtyae709uxqchx5jnsgrqsqqqqqpd7znd9
All the time
nostr:nevent1qqsdh962fne9xjvlvmcz2cs2736syv3dxalknje2te9fyc834cld3qcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsyg85mzthj9yve5j9er2sj99zsn7k9ktukrak3duh5u8jfgtjk53dhypsgqqqqqqscape89
So rare
nostr:nevent1qqs8pnj5savdkm24k8veq4dmryd3u8xj22aplvt3ry6pz6x2mvsjecgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsqyl0rj68l4x2pdrxgkwsejqwkzcnzek3eg3lwna8ra8rt4t0sskqrqsqqqqqp7wk0mu
Found him trying to infiltrate ypj groups
I said he didn't smell like the others
He smells tainted with the stench of the enemy
But he's not saying or posting anything that confirms
.... then he was stalking Egyptian military and I was like isis is going to attack Egyptian mil personnel.... my evidence... nothing... but I was right.
I dropped it
So it's not my problem
nostr:nevent1qqsz0kgfsmf0cdc28h4rynvel0832ncumwrxvqmp2nq090md5e46xzqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygxjfmmruvsc3tjzeprsnyvxhrs9pkvanf8907ddw3rg2z56nsfy05psgqqqqqqsqpy9yk
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Saudi Arabia Isis supporter I was tracking years ago posted [22hrs ago]
"I stand with Muslim extremism"
Yeah.... and they said I was falsely Accusing and wrong.
🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
Lol
They just spelled it out
Yeah I get it
Being subtle gets tiring
https://x.com/YourAnonNews/status/1856529533391741354?t=I2Qae5WyH9AXWcRT63KBug&s=19
Become Anonymous. Put on a red hat, fit in. Listen to what they say closely, get involved in their politics, become trusted. Leak what you know.
Decentralized guerrilla resistance - crowd sourced information via Anonymous sources.
This is what needs to be happening.
Snow white and Ramen noodles *
nostr:nevent1qqs06ntrura3u74zjs9fhln0qm9n3jpxuvf39tsjw6fk5uart7vuezqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q6f80v03jrz9wgtyywzv3s6uwq5xenkdyu4le446ydpg2n2wpy37sxpqqqqqqze8n5nh
Other people:
Wtf are u talking about?
Me:
I'm just making a marker
😭
Ur just a crazy girl...
... oh... wait... aaahhh.... I see.
nostr:nevent1qqsqfvezqec5gtx4eyy690v9zmdxj9n3ddhzfxa634ltdvfhh3as8egpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsygxjfmmruvsc3tjzeprsnyvxhrs9pkvanf8907ddw3rg2z56nsfy05psgqqqqqqs2d5ll4
Thanks jack
nostr:nevent1qqsqtvsnfnt3njkedhxxlw0sleqypqyet0zradwjzwfjl80pn7r3maqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygyzxs0cs2mw40xjhfl3a7g24ktpeur54u2mnm6y5z0e6250h7lx5gpsgqqqqqqsk4p545
I'd obfuscate the most sensitive data so hard and not tell him shit and have a small circle of real loyalists to the country... not trump...
Need to know and ain't nobody need to know everything
Tired of being subtle
nostr:nevent1qqsglzuyy8rlhzugutnkfv2k52vswhk3smvy0ut8zvd3wqnxge9p6fqprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj730qgsdynhk8cep3zhy9jz8pxgcdw8q2rvemxjw2lu66azxs59f48qjglgrqsqqqqqpvzm6ng
Only time will tell
nostr:nevent1qqs2nw06wfjamkup5ghw2rz4aaayxau75wckn284slm78rlmc5yza5gpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q6f80v03jrz9wgtyywzv3s6uwq5xenkdyu4le446ydpg2n2wpy37sxpqqqqqqz095cq3
Snow white and Ramen noodles *
nostr:nevent1qqs06ntrura3u74zjs9fhln0qm9n3jpxuvf39tsjw6fk5uart7vuezqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q6f80v03jrz9wgtyywzv3s6uwq5xenkdyu4le446ydpg2n2wpy37sxpqqqqqqze8n5nh
Other people:
Wtf are u talking about?
Me:
I'm just making a marker
In fact
I literally don't want you to forget it
Also, don't call me babe or sir anymore.
Call me daddy uwu
nostr:nevent1qqszq8uj3m5vrkuxm73k8zva5yxmgkz3t53l8zzzj5jhayqqz387kkcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsdynhk8cep3zhy9jz8pxgcdw8q2rvemxjw2lu66azxs59f48qjglgrqsqqqqqp7mtdtf
Oddbean new post about login | logout
Notes by Unbothered_Unicorn | export