Athlete, Security Researcher, and Threat Hunter. Views are my own.
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Joined April 2008
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1/ We just released our Q4 Adversarial Threat Report focused on our work to investigate and disrupt abusive spyware activity around the world. Our report includes findings on 8 surveillance-for-hire firms from Italy, Spain, and the UAE. We also share detailed recommendations for what a stronger whole-of-society response from governments, private industry should look like to help combat spyware abuses.
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Our team has just put out the latest quarterly adversarial threat report. Read all about all the great work our threat intel investigators do across cyber espionage and coordinated inauthentic behavior: about.fb.com/news/2023/05/me…
Andrew Blaich retweeted
NEW: @Meta’s Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report, featuring malware research, espionage takedowns, and disruptions of covert influence operations from:
China (two networks)
Iran
USA and Venezuela
Georgia
Togo and Burkina Faso
about.fb.com/news/2023/05/me…
Andrew Blaich retweeted
1/ We just shared three reports based on our threat research into influence ops and cyber-espionage activity this past year
🫡 Lookback at 200+ CIB disruptions
🕵️♂️ Surveillance-for-Hire investigations
👨⚖️ Policy recs to tackle the surveillance industry
A 🧵 on our findings
Andrew Blaich retweeted
1/ We just shared new security research by our malware discovery team into 400+ malicious iOS and Android apps. They were designed to steal people's Facebook login info 🧵 about.fb.com/news/2022/10/pr…
Andrew Blaich retweeted
🚨BREAKING🚨
@Meta took down two covert influence ops:
Big one from Russia🇷🇺 targeting Europe with spoofed media websites like the Guardian and Spiegel
First one from China 🇨🇳 to focus on both sides of domestic US 🇺🇸 politics and Czech-China relations.
about.fb.com/news/2022/09/re…
Andrew Blaich retweeted
Just as we hoped would happen, the prosecutor declined to file charges in the absurd F12 hacking case. It’s done. You may now resume use of your keyboard and all its keys.
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Andrew Blaich retweeted
Was talking to a friend yesterday about why the security industry proliferates charlatans (esp in vendors). Apologies for the length but thought I would post my theory:
Security is one of the few markets where information asymmetry rewards vendors who lie to their buyers.
1/n
Andrew Blaich retweeted
1/ With the launch of our threat report into the surveillance-for-hire industry yesterday, adding a few things here that people can do to protect themselves from these types of threats online. xitter.cf/ngleicher/status/14715…
1/ Today we shared a Threat Report on the surveillance-for-hire industry: a secretive global industry of entities that make hacking tools and spyware, sell them to anyone who will pay, and target victims indiscriminately. about.fb.com/news/2021/12/ta…
Andrew Blaich retweeted
1/ Today we released our research into the Surveillance-for-Hire industry. It includes 7 enforcements against surveillance entities from India, Israel, China, and North Macedonia and recommendations for holding this industry accountable. 🧵: about.fb.com/news/2021/12/ta…
Andrew Blaich retweeted
In the wake of fascinating technical feats that simultaneously enable dubious and necessary practices, I'm confronted with our collective difficulty with moral ambiguity. The difficult truth is that all of the following statements can be (and likely are) true at once–
Andrew Blaich retweeted
Today we're publishing a detailed technical writeup of FORCEDENTRY, the zero-click iMessage exploit linked by Citizen Lab to the exploitation of journalists,
activists and dissidents around the world. googleprojectzero.blogspot.c…
Andrew Blaich retweeted
IDA Pro… now $5,000 a year and stops working the day you stop paying… #wtf
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It is with great sadness that the Dark Reading team shares the passing of our co-founder and editor-in-chief, Tim Wilson. Tim was a gifted reporter and editor, and a dear friend and colleague to many in the cybersecurity community. He will be deeply missed informatech.co/3D1jUBr
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It is out! developer.oculus.com/blog/un…
