
Engineer | Investigator @meta, PhD in Applied Data Analytics x Criminology. #animalrights advocate. Founded @threatminer. Calisthenic hobbyist. Views are my own
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Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Notable discovery from @DragosInc on a newly weaponized ICS capability referred to as "FrostyGoop" used in a real-world disruptive event leading to a power outage in Western Ukraine in January 2024. This finding is important for the global Energy sector relying on internet-accessible ENCO devices.
“The fact that it can interact with devices remotely means it doesn't necessarily need to be deployed to a target environment,” [Magpie] Graham says. “You may potentially never see it in the environment, only its effects.”
A remotely deployable capability in-the-wild combined with prevalent exposure of ENCO devices is likely to increases the risk profile of horizontal escalations in the event of cyber-misfires resulting from testing, refinement, mis-attribution of infrastructure, or misguided cyber attacks.
In January, Russia-linked hackers used a new form of malware to sabotage monitoring equipment in a heating utility in Lviv, Ukraine, turning off heat and hot water to 600 buildings for close to 48 hours in the midst of freezing winter temperatures. wired.com/story/russia-ukrai…
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
ShodanHQ offers again a lifetime membership for one time 5 USD
(you have to login with a free account to see the offer) @shodanhq
account.shodan.io/billing/me…
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Financially motivated cybercriminal group Sangria Tempest (ELBRUS, FIN7) has come out of a long period of inactivity. The group was observed deploying the Clop ransomware in opportunistic attacks in April 2023, its first ransomware campaign since late 2021.
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Orqa claims a 'greedy former contractor' secretly installed malicious code into the headset's firmware years ago. But the contractor claims it all boils down to a licensing dispute. pcmag.com/news/headset-maker…
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Introducing VirusTotal Code Insight: empowering threat analysis with generative AI. This tool is based on Sec-PaLM (LLM) and helps explaining behavior of suspicious scripts. Code Insight is available now for all our users! More details by @bquintero: blog.virustotal.com/2023/04/…
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Today VirusTotal announced that each sample uploaded will be accompanied by "Code Insight". Code Insight uses Sec-PaLM, one of the generative AI models by Google, to explain what the malicious binary is doing.
Code Insight is available to all users.
tl;dr "they took my job"
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
A recent leak of sensitive US intelligence documents, including some marked “Top Secret”, has caught the attention of the US Justice Department and Pentagon. But where and how did these documents appear online? Bellingcat investigates: bellingcat.com/news/2023/04/…
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
In response to the #3CXpocalypse / #3CX, a group of us have put together a self-service site to look up if you were potentially impacted. If you're connecting from an IP address that was flagged, the header will turn red.
checkmyoperator.com/
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Journalists suspended from Twitter so far tonight:
• @atrupar (WaPo)
• @drewharwell (WaPo)
• @rmac18 (NYT)
• @donie (CNN)
• @mattbinder (Mashable)
• @micahflee (The Intercept)
• @webster (freelance)
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Just a reminder that Queen Elizabeth has reigned for 30% of U.S. history.
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
🧵Meet Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera, widow, jeweller, and socialite. The love child of a German father and a Peruvian mother, born in Callao, Peru, and abandoned in Moscow by her mother during the 1980 Olympic Games.
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
1/ We just released our Q2 Adversarial Threat Report. Highlights: 2 South Asian cyber-espionage ops, deep dive into a RU troll farm engaging around Ukraine, Philippines elections, and Emerging Harms cases from Greece, India, South Africa, and Indonesia 🧵 about.fb.com/news/2022/08/me…
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Chinese university students who applied for jobs as translators appear to have been unwittingly drawn into a life of espionage as part of Beijing’s industrial-scale intelligence regime.
Here is the FT’s investigation🧵 ft.com/content/2e4359e4-c0ca…
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
.@Atlassian has pushed fixed versions of Confluence Server and Data Center to address CVE-2022-26134! What a quick turnaround -- that is nice work. Everyone please update ASAP!
confluence.atlassian.com/doc…
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
BREAKING: The head of U.S. cyber command Paul Nakasone confirms that American military hackers have carried out cyberattacks in support of Ukraine
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Russian soldier using a hand-held periscope at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
t.me/ok_spn/18547
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
WOW.
Bloomberg finally opensourced memray—a new versatile memory profile for Python. Can't way to use it.
Thread 👇
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Even celebrities well known for their working-class upbringing are seen chiefly as upper class by younger respondents.
For example, the footballer Marcus Rashford is seen as upper class by 56 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds compared with 10.3 per cent of those aged 55-64.
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
Putin's barbaric killing in Bucha requires new sanctions immediately — oil and gas sanctions; all Russian banks out of Swift; all US companies out of Russia, by the end of the week.
Michael Yip | [email protected] retweeted
For the first time, our field investigators in #Ukraine have independently verified physical evidence of banned cluster munitions, the use of which violates international law.They have also collected testimony that documents Russian siege tactics. @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…





























