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[Pavol Lupták @wilderko]

The Proton Problem - Proton has handed over user data in response to over 40,000 government orders since 2017. Their own transparency report shows a 94% compliance rate. Here's everything they don't want you to know, sourced from their own documents.
https://t.co/9UONxAUMR5

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@aricchen @AJOPersonal Every little printer device for labels apps ect they make and put in Amazon and app stores ect

[Aric Chen @aricchen]

🚨 Fake Chinese USB drives infiltrated Japan’s military — and sensitive secrets may have already been stolen for nearly a YEAR.

For eleven months, China-linked malware sat inside Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). Not in a sandbox. Not on some peripheral office network. Inside Middle Army headquarters in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture. On computers wired to closed systems that move troops.

Nikkei Asia put it into daylight on June 25.

Read the numbers slowly. Six of eight counterfeit thumb drives carried the same malware. More than 50 of roughly 480 unit computers had them inserted at some point. Nearly half of those touched were on closed networks handling classified data, including unit command and control. The infection ran from March 2024 to February 2025. The only reason anyone caught it: one soldier's computer started running slow.

The drives themselves are the part that should stop every defense procurement officer in the Indo-Pacific cold. Labeled one terabyte, actually 240 gigabytes. Cheap microSD cards inside a counterfeit shell, malware preloaded at the factory. They were logged as transfers from Ishikawa Prefecture during Noto Peninsula earthquake relief. Ishikawa told Nikkei it has no record of buying them. No invoice. No paper trail. They just appeared inside a military supply line during a national emergency.

JGSDF's public line is that no actual system damage has been confirmed. The strain matches samples U.S. cybersecurity firms have previously tied to Chinese state-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) operators. That is not a final attribution. It is also not nothing.

And here is the part democracies cannot keep brushing off. Nikkei's follow-up reporting found the same counterfeit drives, same malware family, sold across Japanese and international online retailers at roughly half the market price, with confirmed infections already inside Japanese factories and research institutions. The same vector has been used against government and telecom targets in Vietnam and Australia.

This is what supply-chain warfare looks like in 2026. Not a zero-day. Not a phishing campaign. A counterfeit USB drive, mass-produced in a Chinese factory, fed into procurement through disaster-relief chaos and a price tag, then plugged into a network that moves troops.

Allied militaries — JGSDF, the Republic of China (Taiwan) Armed Forces, the United States, Australia — need a hardware whitelist for classified systems. Not an antivirus that politely skips the USB slot. Not the honor system. Not next budget cycle.

Beijing's cheapest weapon is not a missile. It is the device you bought on sale.

Somebody plugged it in.

ACI — Aric Chen | Insights

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@Liberfach0 Too bad it’s staged ….

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@Rioll12 @tendenciaytuits But drugging and robbing and killing foreign gringos is cool right ?

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@harlemedic @snlyngaas FAIL lol

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@bxieus Guy in the back is def gay im sure that goes over well in Beijing

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@georgesttock Fake

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@saarth_ @zachxbt

[SONIA @S0N_IA]

🚨 CHINA LE ROBÓ LA IA A ANTHROPIC.

Y lo hicieron durante 45 días seguidos.

Anthropic acaba de acusar a Alibaba de lanzar el mayor ataque de robo de IA de la historia.

El objetivo: extraer las capacidades de Claude… sin pagar ni un dólar.

Cómo lo hicieron:

→ Crearon casi 25.000 cuentas falsas
→ Ejecutaron 28,8 millones de conversaciones con Claude
→ Todo entre el 22 de abril y el 5 de junio de 2026

El método se llama “ataque de destilación”.

Básicamente: entrenan tu propio modelo… con las respuestas del modelo de tu competidor.

Anthropic tiene a Claude bloqueado en China.

Alibaba encontró la forma de saltárselo igualmente.

Y no fue solo Alibaba.

DeepSeek, Moonshot AI y MiniMax también están en la lista.

Anthropic ya envió una carta al Senado y a la Casa Blanca.

Piden medidas urgentes.

La guerra por la IA no es solo tecnológica.

Es una guerra de espionaje industrial.

Y acaba de hacerse pública.

[TRM Labs @trmlabs]

Since 2019, Iran-linked wallets have moved over USD 3.84 billion in transactions through crypto exchange CoinEx, according to TRM Labs research cited in a new @WSJ investigation.

By 2024, CoinEx had replaced Binance as the largest foreign counterparty to Iran's Nobitex exchange, with over USD 763 million moving between the two in 2025. TRM also traced funds from wallets attributed to Iran's central bank — including amounts linked to Bybit theft proceeds — through CoinEx.

Read the full piece from WSJ here 👉 https://t.co/muvRP5U9Ck

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

NEW: Russia cracked activist's phone with Cellebrite.

Hunted for political terms

We @citizenlab found it. Russia's own official docs confirm they did it.

@brewerov was sentenced to 4 years in prison.

Thing is, @cellebrite had officially cancelled Russia's contract.. 1/

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@Unveiled_ChinaX Wonderful

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

A shadow network operating for the Chinese Communist Party just successfully hijacked millions in New York City taxpayer funds through raw, unchecked local political corruption.

On June 24, 2026, federal prosecutors unsealed a damning 13-count bribery and wire fraud indictment. Authorities arrested Frank Carone, the former Chief of Staff to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, alongside Yan Po Zhu, a wealthy Chinese real estate developer.

The conspiracy ignited in 2022 during the height of the New York City migrant crisis. Carone allegedly abused his powerful administrative position to force through a lucrative 6.8 million dollar emergency housing contract for Zhu's Queens hotel. This action completely bypassed repeated rejections from housing officials who had already declared the site entirely unfit.

In exchange, Zhu allegedly funneled 120,000 dollars in bribes disguised as sham legal retainer fees to quietly pay off Carone’s personal credit cards. By July 2024, as federal investigators closed in, the co-conspirators panicked, fabricating a backdated promissory note and deleting text messages to erase the digital paper trail.

The national security implications are staggering. Investigative reports published on June 25, 2026, revealed that Zhu was the primary financial lifeline for the American Changle Association, bankrolling it with a 100,000 dollar donation. This is the exact front organization exposed for operating an illegal, secret Chinese police station in Manhattan to target and repress dissidents on behalf of Beijing.

Zhu also maintains long-standing ties to suspected CCP agent Linda Sun, the former New York state aide accused of deep foreign infiltration. Following a federal raid on his Long Island mansion where a cache of weapons was seized, Zhu was hit with a massive 8 million dollar bond as an extreme flight risk to a nation with no U.S. extradition treaty.

While the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, this timeline shows how foreign regimes can weaponize local political greed to compromise critical American infrastructure. Public trust must be fiercely guarded against those who treat national security and public service as a personal goldmine.

#NYC #NewYork #CCP #NationalSecurity #MigrantCrisis #FBI #Corruption #EricAdams #BreakingNews

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@DarkWebInformer But is it real or a scam lol

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@vxunderground Arabic site from the git creator too https://t.co/bGWfOOC3r4

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@RoundtableSpace Arabic site …. https://t.co/bGWfOOC3r4 smh 🤦‍♂️

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@kidpakerot What about android 🤖? Cheaper phones an easier for a lot of ppl probably

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@ArtenesDev @kidpakerot It can be pricey but try residential proxies and for best use dedicated residential proxy per acc. That way only that acc uses the ip

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@kidpakerot Warmr