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Ryan Gallagher

@rj_gallagher
65 posts
2024-10-21
New: Documents reveal a comprehensive Russian hacking campaign targeting Georgia for espionage & sabotage. Energy grid, central bank, telcos, finance ministry, foreign ministry were compromised in a years-long secret campaign that began in 2017. Pertinent this week amid elections
2024-10-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: a Russian espionage and hacking campaign targeted Georgia for years and breached its Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry, central bank, and more

Bloomberg : X: @willneal93 , @martijnrasser , @rj_gallagher , and @albertonardelli X: Will Neal / @willneal93 : Well this is a pretty chilling read. https://www.bloomberg.com/... ...

2024-03-07
Bing is now the only US/Western search platform accessible on China's version of the internet, which is tightly controlled by its so-called “Great Firewall”. Google & Yahoo are now unavailable, as are social media sites like Facebook, Snapchat & X.
2024-03-07 View on X
Bloomberg

How Microsoft has run a Chinese version of Bing since 2009, helping Beijing maintain its Great Firewall; China accounted for 1.8% of Microsoft's sales in 2020

The company's search engine does good business in China, a market Google and Facebook abandoned years ago.

New: Inside Microsoft's Bing search engine in China, which is censoring information on human rights, democracy, climate change & much more to satisfy China's authoritarian government: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-03-07 View on X
Bloomberg

How Microsoft has run a Chinese version of Bing since 2009, helping Beijing maintain its Great Firewall; China accounted for 1.8% of Microsoft's sales in 2020

The company's search engine does good business in China, a market Google and Facebook abandoned years ago.

Microsoft said its Chinese version of Bing is “the least censored search engine” in the country & that it'd rather have a presence there than not. “We only censor a result in response to a narrow legal order that we conclude obligates us to do so,” said a company spokesman.
2024-03-07 View on X
Bloomberg

How Microsoft has run a Chinese version of Bing since 2009, helping Beijing maintain its Great Firewall; China accounted for 1.8% of Microsoft's sales in 2020

The company's search engine does good business in China, a market Google and Facebook abandoned years ago.

Current & former employees provided a candid insight into Microsoft's secretive Chinese operation. They revealed a sophisticated censorship system that utilises machine learning & is centered on an expanding blacklist of thousands of websites & phrases.
2024-03-07 View on X
Bloomberg

How Microsoft has run a Chinese version of Bing since 2009, helping Beijing maintain its Great Firewall; China accounted for 1.8% of Microsoft's sales in 2020

The company's search engine does good business in China, a market Google and Facebook abandoned years ago.

2024-02-27
Sandvine was originally founded in Canada & was acquired by US-based private equity firm Francisco Partners in 2017. More about Francisco Partners & its role profiting from repressive surveillance & censorship: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-02-27 View on X
Bloomberg

The US adds Sandvine to its entity list, banning the networking equipment company from obtaining US tech, for supplying Egypt with equipment used for censorship

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg :

Comes after we reported in Sept that Sandvine had made sales worth more than $30 million in Egypt, including to state-owned Telecom Egypt, Vodafone Egypt & to government agencies including Egypt's Ministry of Defense & the National Telecom Regulation Authority....
2024-02-27 View on X
Bloomberg

The US adds Sandvine to its entity list, banning the networking equipment company from obtaining US tech, for supplying Egypt with equipment used for censorship

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg :

2023-02-05
I went to Ireland to hear about a horrific cyberattack on the country's hospitals, which unleashed chaos & risked lives. Spoke to two dozen people involved & tracked down an ex-member of the criminal gang responsible. “We were plunged into darkness.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-02-05 View on X
Bloomberg

Interviews detail the Conti ransomware group's 2021 attack on Ireland's public health system; Conti seemingly called off the hack without getting a ransom

focus on creating distrust within the groups. https://twitter.com/... Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : I went to Ireland to hear about a horrific cyberattack on the country's hospi...

2023-02-04
I went to Ireland to hear about a horrific cyberattack on the country's hospitals, which unleashed chaos & risked lives. Spoke to two dozen people involved & tracked down an ex-member of the criminal gang responsible. “We were plunged into darkness.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-02-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Interviews detail the Conti ransomware group's 2021 attack on Ireland's public health system; Conti seemingly called off the hack without receiving a ransom

At first the attack on Ireland's public-health system fell into a depressingly familiar pattern.

2022-11-12
Also: We're told Musk laid off an entire information security team at Twitter that oversaw sharing of user data with advertisers & research partners, a move that triggered internal concerns about vulnerability to security threats & potential violations of FTC rules.
2022-11-12 View on X
Washington Post

Internal note: Twitter temporarily disabled signing up for Twitter Blue to “help address impersonation issues” affecting brands, politicians, and celebrities

and they were amazing. It didn't take long before the fun accounts became parody fake accounts of real people. Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__ : A lot of people on this site who spe...

Also: We're told Musk laid off an entire information security team at Twitter that oversaw sharing of user data with advertisers & research partners, a move that triggered internal concerns about vulnerability to security threats & potential violations of FTC rules.
2022-11-12 View on X
New York Times

An internal Twitter log shows that more than 140,000 accounts had signed up for the new Twitter Blue as of November 10

The social media service, which is undergoing changes from its new owner Elon Musk, has descended into a messy swirl of spoof messages and parody accounts.

2022-06-16
...I sent them a selection of random photos of Belarus citizens & they entered them into their database. Within minutes they had the correct name & bio for each person. It's a fascinating example of how technology is strengthening this resistance campaign: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-16 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at hacking group Cyber Partisans, which seeks to overthrow Belarus' government and has disrupted Russia's supply lines in Belarus for the war in Ukraine

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business , @rj_gallagher , @chafkin , and @rj_gallagher Tweets: @business : Belarusian hackers and dissidents determined to overthrow Preside...

New: I spoke with some of the hackers & dissidents waging a covert war of sabotage against the authoritarian regimes of Belarus's Lukashenko & Russia's Putin. They are setting a new model for revolutionary groups. Here's their story: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-06-16 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at hacking group Cyber Partisans, which seeks to overthrow Belarus' government and has disrupted Russia's supply lines in Belarus for the war in Ukraine

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business , @rj_gallagher , @chafkin , and @rj_gallagher Tweets: @business : Belarusian hackers and dissidents determined to overthrow Preside...

2021-12-18
Meta on Thursday named four Israeli firms as having been involved in providing the “surveillance-for-hire” services — Cobwebs Technologies, Cognyte, Black Cube & Bluehawk CI — in addition to India's BellTrox, North Macedonia's Cytrox & an unknown entity in China.
2021-12-18 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta bans seven surveillance-for-hire groups, including Cytrox, removing over 1,500 Facebook and Instagram accounts and alerting 50K users who were targeted

Cytrox is one of seven surveillance companies now banned from Meta's platforms  —  While NSO Group was taking flak for hacking …

2021-12-17
Meta on Thursday named four Israeli firms as having been involved in providing the “surveillance-for-hire” services — Cobwebs Technologies, Cognyte, Black Cube & Bluehawk CI — in addition to India's BellTrox, North Macedonia's Cytrox & an unknown entity in China.
2021-12-17 View on X
The Citizen Lab

Two Egyptians living in exile had their iPhones compromised in June 2021 using Predator spyware built by North Macedonian developer Cytrox

Key Findings  — Two Egyptians—exiled politician Ayman Nour and the host of a popular news program (who wishes to remain anonymous) …

Meta on Thursday named four Israeli firms as having been involved in providing the “surveillance-for-hire” services — Cobwebs Technologies, Cognyte, Black Cube & Bluehawk CI — in addition to India's BellTrox, North Macedonia's Cytrox & an unknown entity in China.
2021-12-17 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta bans seven surveillance-for-hire groups, including Cytrox, removing over 1,500 Facebook and Instagram accounts and alerting 50K users who were targeted

Cytrox is one of seven surveillance companies now banned from Meta's platforms  —  While NSO Group was taking flak for hacking …

2021-12-15
“The lack of regulation & accountability has brought unnecessary privacy & security risks to mobile users across the globe,” said Gary Miller, mobile security researcher at @CitizenLab. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-12-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Swiss company Mitto, which offers text message services to companies, tells clients co-founder Ilja Gorelik has departed after surveillance accusations

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg : Tweets: @rj_gallagher , @tsgiles , and @bradstone Tweets: Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : “The lack of regulation & accountability has brought unnece...

2021-12-06
New: Executive at Swiss Tech Company Said to Operate Secret Surveillance Operation https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-12-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Swiss company Mitto, which offers automated text messages to companies in 100+ countries, helped governments secretly surveil mobile phone users

Mitto AG's network used to track people via mobile phones, former employees say.  —  The co-founder of a company that has been trusted …

2021-08-25
Data obtained by the hackers could be of major significance in the long-term, according to experts, bolstering international efforts to sanction Lukashenko & his subordinates, as the trove provides evidence of officials ordering beatings of citizens during last year's protests: https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-25 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, a hacking group that has released a huge data trove, including from the government and police, to undermine Lukashenko

They also obtained - mortality statistics indicating that thousands more people in Belarus died from Covid-19 than the govt has publicly acknowledged - video footage from police drones & detention centers - And they've hacked & sabotaged 240+ surveillance cameras in Belarus https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-25 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, a hacking group that has released a huge data trove, including from the government and police, to undermine Lukashenko