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Scott Stedman

@scottmstedman
30 posts
2022-10-10
What began as a tip from @thomasafine turned into a story I spent months investigating and reporting which turned into @janboehm raising the awareness in Germany. Now, shockwaves and calls for accountability are being felt in the German government. https://forensicnews.net/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-10 View on X
Reuters

German media reports the government plans to dismiss cybersecurity chief Arne Schoenbohm over possible contacts with Russian security services

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants to dismiss the country's cybersecurity chief due to possible contacts with people involved …

2022-03-12
Secret bank records, penthouses, Bored Ape Yacht Club, real yachts, the mass importation of sex toys from China, wage theft, allegations of an offshore Facebook bribery scandal. This story truly has everything. https://forensicnews.net/...
2022-03-12 View on X
Forensic News

An investigation into OnlyFans owner Leo Radvinsky, who has attracted law enforcement scrutiny amid reports of wage theft and potential underage sexual activity

The first digital trace of Leo Radvinsky dates back to 1997 when Radvinsky, then just 15-years-old, acted as a webmaster … Tweets: @scottmstedman , @labarbarapalmer , @scottmstedma...

The research for this article took me longer than any story I've ever written. Hope you'll give it a read, even though it'll take about 25 minutes. https://forensicnews.net/...
2022-03-12 View on X
Forensic News

An investigation into OnlyFans owner Leo Radvinsky, who has attracted law enforcement scrutiny amid reports of wage theft and potential underage sexual activity

The first digital trace of Leo Radvinsky dates back to 1997 when Radvinsky, then just 15-years-old, acted as a webmaster … Tweets: @scottmstedman , @labarbarapalmer , @scottmstedma...

NEW: I spent 18 months investigating the owner of @OnlyFans. From a teenage hacker to an NFT whale who is accused of bribing senior Facebook employees in a covert offshore scheme, this is the dubious financial and business history of Leo Radvinsky. https://forensicnews.net/...
2022-03-12 View on X
Forensic News

An investigation into OnlyFans owner Leo Radvinsky, who has attracted law enforcement scrutiny amid reports of wage theft and potential underage sexual activity

The first digital trace of Leo Radvinsky dates back to 1997 when Radvinsky, then just 15-years-old, acted as a webmaster … Tweets: @scottmstedman , @labarbarapalmer , @scottmstedma...

2021-09-18
My god. “in October 2019, all 15 of the top pages targeting Christian Americans, 10 of the top 15 Facebook pages targeting Black Americans, and four of the top 12 Facebook pages targeting Native Americans were being run by troll farms.” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2021-09-18 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages

foreign organizations that strategically target these groups for financial and possibly political gain. https://twitter.com/... Ella Dawson / @brosandprose : “In October 2019, all ...

2021-09-17
My god. “in October 2019, all 15 of the top pages targeting Christian Americans, 10 of the top 15 Facebook pages targeting Black Americans, and four of the top 12 Facebook pages targeting Native Americans were being run by troll farms.” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2021-09-17 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages

In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian … Tweets: @_karenhao , @profcarroll , @melissaryan , @adam_...

2021-09-15
DOJ to NSO Group: We are coming. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-15 View on X
The Record

DOJ court documents: three former US intel operatives, who worked as mercenary hackers for the UAE, face charges of conspiring to violate hacking laws

The US Department of Justice has fined three former NSA employees who worked as hackers-for-hire for a United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company. Source: U.S. Department of Justic...

We never got an answer as to why Michael Flynn got paid by NSO Group. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-15 View on X
The Record

DOJ court documents: three former US intel operatives, who worked as mercenary hackers for the UAE, face charges of conspiring to violate hacking laws

The US Department of Justice has fined three former NSA employees who worked as hackers-for-hire for a United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company. Source: U.S. Department of Justic...

2021-07-29
How does one investigate one's own decisions (to issue spyware export licenses to autocratic regimes)...? https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-29 View on X
MIT Technology Review

NSO Group confirms that Israeli government officials opened an investigation and visited NSO's Tel Aviv office on Wednesday to assess Pegasus abuse allegations

‘We want them to check everything,’ says CEO of cybersecurity company implicated in campaigns against politicians, activists and other notable figures.

2021-07-21
“It will always be my word against the evidence” -NSO Group CEO. Well said. The evidence will always win. https://www.calcalistech.com/ ...
2021-07-21 View on X
CTech

NSO CEO claims leaked list of 50K+ phone numbers potentially targeted with NSO spyware has “nothing to do with us” and had first heard about the list last month

“It will always be my word against the evidence” -NSO Group CEO. Well said. The evidence will always win. https://www.calcalistech.com/ ...
2021-07-21 View on X
Washington Post

Phone numbers belonging to ten prime ministers, three presidents, and a king were among the list of 50K potential NSO targets, leaked to Amnesty International

Spies for centuries have trained their sights on those who shape destinies of nations: presidents, prime ministers, kings.

2021-07-16
NSO Group-linked company Candiru found operating in Russia even though their terms say they don't operate there. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-16 View on X
VICE

Microsoft and Citizen Lab say government hackers from several countries have used spyware from Israeli vendor Candiru that uses two 0-day exploits in Windows

Microsoft and Citizen Lab found a new kind of spyware made by the mysterious Israeli vendor Candiru, and targeting someone in Europe based on their political beliefs.

2021-03-10
Tech privacy is a civil rights issue of the 21st century. Use @brave. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-10 View on X
Wall Street Journal

In a privacy policy update, T-Mobile says it will automatically enroll all subscribers in an ad program informed by their online activity, starting on April 26

Wireless carrier tells subscribers it could share their browsing, app data and other online activity with advertisers unless they opt out

2020-12-22
WOW! Huge news. Major corporations are assembling against NSO Group. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-22 View on X
Reuters

Microsoft, Alphabet, Cisco, LinkedIn, GitHub, VMware, and the Internet Association file an amicus brief in support of WhatsApp in the WhatsApp v. NSO Group case

(Reuters) - Tech giants Microsoft, Alphabet , Cisco, and VMware on Monday joined Facebook's legal battle against hacking company NSO …

2020-12-19
“Like other SolarWinds customers, we have been actively looking for indicators of this actor and can confirm that we detected malicious Solar Winds binaries in our environment, which we isolated and removed,” a Microsoft spokesperson said https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-12-19 View on X
Yahoo News

Sources: hackers conducted a test run of the SolarWinds breach in October 2019, with a version of the malware that didn't have a backdoor embedded in it

Kim Zetter / Yahoo News :

“Like other SolarWinds customers, we have been actively looking for indicators of this actor and can confirm that we detected malicious Solar Winds binaries in our environment, which we isolated and removed,” a Microsoft spokesperson said https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-12-19 View on X
Reuters

An analysis of publicly available web records shows SolarWinds hackers accessed the networks at Cox Communications and the local government in Pima County, AZ

LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected Russian hackers accessed the systems of a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona …

2020-12-18
“Like other SolarWinds customers, we have been actively looking for indicators of this actor and can confirm that we detected malicious Solar Winds binaries in our environment, which we isolated and removed,” a Microsoft spokesperson said https://www.reuters.com/...
2020-12-18 View on X
Microsoft On the Issues

Microsoft identified 40+ customers targeted in the SolarWinds hack, 80% in the US, says the attack is “ongoing” and calls for a global cybersecurity response

The final weeks of a challenging year have proven even more difficult with the recent exposure of the world's latest serious nation-state cyberattack.

2020-12-06
Bloomberg quickly touches on Radvinsky's sketchy past but doesn't addresses massive problems with OnlyFans. Dozens of people have told me that they had money stolen, entire account balances siphoned without their knowledge or detailed explanation. https://www.google.com/...
2020-12-06 View on X
Bloomberg

OnlyFans says it will generate $2B+ in sales in 2020, now has 85M users, is adding around 500K users a day, and is paying out $200M+ a month to its 1M+ creators

New link at Bloomberg

2020-07-19
For these 8 accounts, it is the worst case scenario. Private data accessed and downloaded. Likely no way to get it back. https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-19 View on X
Twitter

Twitter provides an overview of what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, how it reacted, and the next steps

As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.

We live in the dumbest timeline. “the attack was not the work of a nation-state or a sophisticated group of hackers. Instead, it was done by a group of young people — one of whom says he lives at home with his mother” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-07-19 View on X
Twitter

Twitter provides an overview of what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, how it reacted, and the next steps

As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.