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.
YouTube removes Tenet Media channel over alleged ties to Russian disinformation effort
https://therecord.media/youtube-removes-tenet-media-russian-ties
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.
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
This announcement follows the designation of actors involved in Doppelganger announced by the Treasury Department in March
/nosanitize
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.
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
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
"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.
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.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ryanmcbeth/p/why-striking-lebanon-is-different
Project 2025 and the military
This video concentrates on the "Good, the Bad and the Ugly" of the plan
#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
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.
He still faces about 30 related charges, according to the Associated Press.
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