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New, by me: Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform they operated under assumed names.

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A screenshot of two Twitter/X posts from the IRIS C2 account. One features a still shot from a video of a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader standing on a green field waving pom-poms and looking to the left. The caption reads: POV: You stopped screwing around with vendor bug bounties and make a lucrative living selling to Western exploit brokers instead. The post below that says, "Mom, how did we get so rich?" The reply: "Your father stopped d*cking around with bug bounty programs and sold his exploits to western governments."

Alt...A screenshot of two Twitter/X posts from the IRIS C2 account. One features a still shot from a video of a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader standing on a green field waving pom-poms and looking to the left. The caption reads: POV: You stopped screwing around with vendor bug bounties and make a lucrative living selling to Western exploit brokers instead. The post below that says, "Mom, how did we get so rich?" The reply: "Your father stopped d*cking around with bug bounty programs and sold his exploits to western governments."

A photo of Burkman (left) and Wohl) outside his Arlington, Va. in a 2020 press conference where they made up sexual assault allegations against public figures. Burkman is and standing at a podium in a blue suit. Wohl, also in a blue suit and tie, stands to the right of Burkman, looking down.

Alt...A photo of Burkman (left) and Wohl) outside his Arlington, Va. in a 2020 press conference where they made up sexual assault allegations against public figures. Burkman is and standing at a podium in a blue suit. Wohl, also in a blue suit and tie, stands to the right of Burkman, looking down.

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    "Help EFF Cut the AI Hype"

    "It's just the opposite for EFF. In the global race to build and dominate the AI industry, it can sure seem like the interests of ordinary people sit last on the agenda."

    eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/help

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      🔒 A 19-year-old cybercriminal was caught despite using a VPN across multiple countries - because Windows has a tracking number built into every install that a VPN can't hide.

      Peter Stokes, arrested in Finland in April and extradited to the US last week, is tied to Scattered Spider, the hacking group behind the 2023 MGM and Caesars casino breaches. The group is linked to 100+ intrusions and over $100 million in extortion.

      The FBI didn't crack his VPN. Microsoft handed over his Global Device ID (GDID), a unique identifier baked into every Windows installation at setup. It doesn't change when you update, switch networks, or use a VPN. The only way to reset it is a full OS reinstall.

      Investigators matched Stokes's GDID across IP addresses in Estonia, New York, and Thailand, correlating with login times on his Snapchat, Apple, and Facebook accounts. The same device that breached a luxury jewelry retailer and demanded $8 million in ransom also logged into Snapchat and a video game from his real network.

      So while VPNs mask your IP address, they were never designed to hide device-level identifiers embedded in your operating system. The tracking can live one layer deeper than the one most people defend.

      Read more:
      itnews.com.au/news/microsoft-d
      databreachtoday.com/scattered-

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        Cape was founded by privacy-first innovators with deep expertise in security, telecom, and technology—built on the belief you can stay connected without compromising your privacy. As noted in The News, “a company is finally trying to seriously address privacy issues with aging telecommunications networks.” Learn more: cape.co/about 🔒📡🛡️

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          [?]DigitalEscapeTools » 🌐
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          A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability called Bad Epoll lets an unprivileged local user gain root access on affected Linux systems and Android devices.

          The flaw is notable because it exists in the same kernel code where Anthropic's AI model Mythos previously found a different vulnerability, but missed this one. A patch is available, and affected systems should be updated.

          Read more:
          digitalescapetools.com/2026/07

            [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 » 🌐
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            "Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses of the notorious surveillance tool. This has reignited fresh controversy over governments abusing spyware to collect information about their critics.

            The researchers at the University of Toronto’s digital rights unit The Citizen Lab say the confirmed phone hacking of Greek journalist and former politician Stelios Kouloglou during 2022 and 2023 marks the first time that a member of the European Parliament’s PEGA committee, tasked with investigating phone spyware attacks by European governments, has been publicly identified as a victim of spyware.

            Kouloglou told TechCrunch in a phone call that the deliberate compromise of his phone was “reckless.” One serving European lawmaker described the hacking of Kouloglou’s phone as a “direct attack on the rule of law,” and called on the European Commission to take concrete action by imposing strict limits on the use of spyware across the 27 member-state bloc."

            techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/poli

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              [?]Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 » 🌐
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              "Since 2020, Palantir, the controversial US data surveillance firm with links to Israeli abuses in occupied Palestine, has won over £670m in contracts with British civil and defence industries, raising both ethical and national-security concerns among politicians and campaigners.

              Chief among those are a £330m contract with the NHS and a £240m deal with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), alongside a £15m contract related to Britain’s nuclear deterrent.

              Despite a lack of transparency around the extent of Palantir’s deals in the UK’s public services, at least 34 contracts have been uncovered within sectors including the police, child social care, refugee schemes and the environment.

              In January 2024, Palantir announced a partnership with the Israeli Ministry of Defence to deploy its technology in support of “war related missions” that use drone-fired missiles to target civilians in Gaza, including journalists and aid workers.

              In April 2025, Palantir's chief executive Alex Karp responded to accusations that Palantir technology had enabled the killing of Palestinians in Gaza by saying “mostly terrorists, that’s true”."

              middleeasteye.net/news/palanti

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                [?]Indigo Privacy » 🌐
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                CDN providers that serve cached content log IP address, request metadata, and geolocation for every visitor to every site they serve.

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                    Drop Site News: A Third Party Breached The Intercept’s Signal Tip Line and Has Been Soliciting Whistleblowers

                    The news outlet changed its tip line this week, but has not informed potential sources or the public of the breach.

                    dropsitenews.com/p/intercept-s

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                      [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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                      Online scams and violence [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                      What does a widowed tailor in Kurdistan, a sheep farmer in Kyrgyzstan and an engineer in Russia have in common? Romance scams. They and almost 50,000 other people are victims of online fraud carried out by one person who was trafficked and beaten at a scam compound in Myanmar. How did he pull off such a feat? American AI and tech.

                      Read more about the AP/"FRONTLINE" investigation:
                      flip.it/oSeWrO

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                          “"The # TrumpAdministration ’s new drug strategy does more than escalate the war on fentanyl. It sketches the architecture for a national # surveillance system built from some of Americans’ most personal data: prescr...”

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