Very well-paid victims. According to the indictment, “Commentator-1”—whose 2.4 million YouTube subscriber numbers matched Johnson’s—was paid $400,000 a month for four weekly videos, plus a $100,000 signing bonus. “Someone please victimize me with $400k a month,” cracked lawyer Damin Toell on X.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-indicted-covertly-funding-and-directing-us-company-published-thousands

YouTube removes Tenet Media channel over alleged ties to Russian disinformation effort

https://therecord.media/youtube-removes-tenet-media-russian-ties

Tim "its squeaky bum time" for you "they" are coming after you now - after all the screaming that "they" will come after "you" next - carful what you wish for Mr "bean"ie hat

both Pool and Johnson claimed they were unwitting victims.

Tenet Media (known as "U.S. Company-1" in the indictment) is a right-leaning content creation company focusing on YouTube and social media. This company allegedly accepted $9.7 million dollars in funding from RT to parrot Russian talking points as directed by Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanassvia

The full indictment is here:

(PDF)

https://share.counter.social/s/4184c7

Oopsie Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and others you got played woulda Adam an Eve it 😝

Additional: Friday 6th September: staying with Russia theme - How Russia Today infiltrated Right-wing media

Multiple countries stopped carrying the RT news channel after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, so Russia needed to find another way to disseminate state-sponsored propaganda.

https://youtu.be/Yzaeeynpo1s

Doppelganger’s foreign malign influence efforts were not directed solely against audiences in the United States. Other targets of the perpetrators’ propaganda included Germany, Mexico, and Israel, among others.

ICYMI

Doppelganger – Media clones serving Russian propaganda

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112643479071009162

This announcement follows the designation of actors involved in Doppelganger announced by the Treasury Department in March

/nosanitize

https://vmm0dj30.r.us-east-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fhome.treasury.gov%2Fnews%2Fpress-releases%2Fjy2195%3Futm_medium=email%26utm_source=govdelivery/1/01000191be104440-359d8f36-c9ed-4091-98ab-d28ec7dc8a9b-000000/TTf56XNwl_FEn5At6qVT5zUK1KI=390

In conjunction with the domain seizures, the U.S. Treasury Department announced the designation of 10 individuals and two entities as part of a coordinated response to Russia’s malign influence efforts targeting the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2559

Wed 4th September:

Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere - Influence Operation Relied on Influencers, AI-Generated Content, Paid Social Media Advertisements, and Social Media Accounts to Drive Internet Traffic to Cybersquatted and Other Domains

(PDF file)

Doppelganger affidavit

https://share.counter.social/s/e63dd7

Young wolves learn

Old wolves know

The most dangerous vulnerability you've never heard of - Active Directory Certificate Services vulnerabilities.

#Cybersecurity #CoSoSec #InfoSec

Breaking Down AD CS Vulnerabilities: Insights for InfoSec Professionals

explore why AD CS vulnerabilities are so dangerous and how they work.

https://thehackernews.com/2024/08/breaking-down-ad-cs-vulnerabilities.html

@process true though 😂😂

@arthurpendragon @rpardee they do it by getting Internet service providers to block access

And set fines if they don't as well as doing same with app stores who'll have to remove any app, like X, or face fines - daily fines as well

@rpardee

"justice gave internet service providers and app stores five days to block access to X, and said the platform will stay suspended until it complies with his orders. He established the same deadline for app stores to remove virtual private networks, or VPNs, and set a daily fine of 50,000 reais ($8,900) for people or companies using them to access X."

They can fine ISPs and VPNs as well as app stores that's the levers they pull to enforce it

@SatuUnelmia Microsoft told the researchers that there are too many variables, making exploiting these flaws highly unlikely.

As a result, the company has no plans to patch the flaws, stating, "Microsoft considers these issues low risk, and some of their applications, they claim, need to allow loading of unsigned libraries to support plugins and have declined to fix the issues,” the researchers said in the blog post.

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/how-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-microsoft-apps-for-macos-pave-the-way-to-stealing-permissions/

Israel has spent the past 10 months mapping out every inch of southern Lebanon finding every base, every tunnel, every supply depot. - Every single Gaza strike brought the possibility of mass casualties, but in Gaza, this was a feature, not a bug for HAMAS. HAMAS needs civilian casualties because they cannot win a fight against Israel. The world must be so horrified that they end the conflict with a cease-fire and a cease-fire means a HAMAS win.

#Israel #Gaza #Lebanon

https://open.substack.com/pub/ryanmcbeth/p/why-striking-lebanon-is-different

Project 2025 and the military

#Project25

This video concentrates on the "Good, the Bad and the Ugly" of the plan

https://youtu.be/_14lMXTyyk8

#ChromeOS now let's users add One Drive to files as well as Microsoft 365 word, excel, PowerPoint files

You can have google drive & one drive linked to files if needed

@process 😂😂

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The case is one of many that Backpage has faced regarding sexual exploitation over the last decade, having shuttered its “Adult Services” ads section in 2017 in response to pressure from lawmakers and critics

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/10/14223770/backpage-closes-goverment-pressure

Two other Backpage executives — former chief financial officer John Brunst and executive vice president Scott Spear — received 10-year prison sentences on Wednesday after being convicted of money laundering and prostitution facilitation last year.

Michael Lacey, a founder of the defunct classified site Backpage.com, received a five-year prison sentence on Wednesday and was fined $3 million.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-owners-notorious-prostitution-website-backpagecom-sentenced

Lacey was found guilty of money laundering last year in a sweeping case that alleged Backpage executives promoted and profited from prostitution.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/9/17216988/backpage-founders-federal-charges-prostitution-money-laundering-shutdown

He still faces about 30 related charges, according to the Associated Press.

https://apnews.com/article/backpage-prostitution-sex-ads-michael-lacey-sentencing-fdc90e3293eec40a2f63d2e0d828ff5f