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Zach Edwards

@thezedwards
56 posts
2025-05-30
Our team @silentpush has been working on FUNNULL research for years now. Our piece from last year @ https://www.silentpush.com/... And this year's update on Infrastructure Laundering they do abusing major cloud providers https://www.silentpush.com/...
2025-05-30 View on X
TechCrunch

The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating “pig butchering” crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims

The U.S. government imposed sanctions on FUNNULL, a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running so-called …

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2025-02-02
X specifically setup bot defenses so that viewing tweets requires having an account. You can see in this video if you open a tweet in an incognito / non-logged-in state, then click “replies” you immediately are prompted w/ a login, then blocked from reading more. [video]
2025-02-02 View on X
The Desk

The US NTSB says it will not email news outlets and reporters with updates about the two recent plane crashes, and will instead post updates on its X account

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates …

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2024-09-27
X is locking accounts that link to the J.D. Vance report released by Ken Klippenstein. I assume they are locking all the accounts that linked to the old 2016 leaked docs too? Oh right, forgot this is a partisan network now. [image]
2024-09-27 View on X
The Verge

X is blocking links to Ken Klippenstein's newsletter with a hacked JD Vance dossier and has suspended Klippenstein's X account for posting Vance's personal info

X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that's alleged to be the Trump campaign's research …

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2024-07-23
Google's decision not to deprecate 3rd party cookies is further proof they can't be trusted with the responsibilities they have as a global data controller via Chrome. From bait and switches on their competitors to broken privacy promises to regulators. Absolute clown show.⛈️⚖️⛈️
2024-07-23 View on X
Digiday

Google says it won't be “deprecating third-party cookies” in Chrome and will instead keep working on “privacy-preserving alternatives” via Privacy Sandbox APIs

After much back and forth, Google has decided to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser.

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2024-04-05
If Meta couldn't keep Bright Data from scraping their publicly available content, what chance does G have of keeping OpenAI from doing the same to Youtube public content? The precedent around this is getting quite clear imnlo... 🖖🏻
2024-04-05 View on X
Bloomberg

YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini

depending on how it trains its Sora video tool Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : YouTube CEO's warning to OpenAI over Sora training data could backfire spectacularly Cecily Mauran /...

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2024-02-24
there's a toggle where you can expose your client IP address to end users who call you on X i'll definitely be turning this whole thing off once they make it available for my account 📴
2024-02-24 View on X
9to5Mac

X starts rolling out audio and video calling to all users, after previously limiting the feature to Premium subscribers; users can disable calling in settings

The social platform X introduced a new feature last year that lets users make and receive audio and video calls, just like apps such as FaceTime and WhatsApp.

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2023-02-18
Thank god @godaddy has finally admitted this! I did research on this for a long ass time, and was the first to point out that some of their infrastructure seemed to be compromised: https://victorymedium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-18 View on X
BleepingComputer

GoDaddy discovered a multiyear security breach in early December 2022 in which unknown attackers stole some source code and installed malware on its servers

Web hosting giant GoDaddy says they suffered a breach where unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware …

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2022-12-22
“In the end, we matched 70% of the accounts in Google's ad sellers list to one or more domains or apps, more than any dataset ProPublica is aware of. But we couldn't find all of Google's publisher partners.” 👀 https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-22 View on X
ProPublica

Google's Display Network, which places ads on 2M+ websites, lets site owners stay anonymous while putting ads beside pirated content, porn, and disinformation

In late 2021, the right-wing site Conservative Beaver published a story falsely claiming the FBI had arrested Pfizer's CEO for fraud. Tweets: @craigsilverman , @craigsilverman , @t...

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2022-09-29
What do these 4 websites & hundreds more have in common? 👀They were built by CIA to support encrypted messaging sessions between spies in the field and their U.S. handlers. Reuters is out today with a year-long investigation into the network @ https://www.reuters.com/... 🔊🚨🌩️ ⚖️ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-29 View on X
Reuters

An investigation shows the CIA failed to secure its messaging system used by Iranian spies, often hidden within websites, leading to capture, torture, and death

The spy was minutes from leaving Iran when he was nabbed.  —  Gholamreza Hosseini was at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran in late 2010, preparing for a flight to Bangkok.

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2022-09-27
Boom! My employer https://humansecutity.com/ just dropped a rare blog post about an *active data supply chain attack* currently abusing ~180+ Android & iOS mobile apps that are stealing ad revenue @ https://www.humansecurity.com/ ... This is your classic “ads off-screen” but it's a big one!🧵 https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-27 View on X
BleepingComputer

Researchers found 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple's App Store that engaged in ad fraud and collectively had 13M installs; Apple and Google removed them

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :

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2022-09-11
@PrivaCat It literally prevents advertisers from sharing custom audiences that's the #1 , #2, #3, #4, #5 ... etc purposes This fixes a massive exfiltration problem & breaks the business model of dozens of shady orgs. They are bankrupt as of today. Literally. cheers.
2022-09-11 View on X
Meta

Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to make it harder for attackers to scrape unauthorized data

similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers vio...

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If you are still creating static IDs (cough *hashed email schemes*) you are at a massive risk for exfiltration of audience data. Do this: “We created Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers (PFBIDs), which combine timestamps and FBIDs to generate a unique time-rotating identifier. ” https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-11 View on X
Meta

Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to make it harder for attackers to scrape unauthorized data

similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers vio...

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@PrivaCat With all due respect, it does a ton for user privacy + it creates a feedback loop to catch unregistered data brokers. It was *profitable* to scrape Facebook. You grab a userID + scrape their FB likes, and now you've got yourself a custom audience that can be sold and activated.
2022-09-11 View on X
Meta

Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to make it harder for attackers to scrape unauthorized data

similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers vio...

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I'm glad that Facebook finally took action to protect userIDs from scraping. It's hard to know if they ever ran an experiment that someone could have suggested which would have caught advertisers using scraped IDs- would be quite the problem for some orgs! https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-11 View on X
Meta

Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to make it harder for attackers to scrape unauthorized data

similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers vio...

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I almost want to call these “Canary UserIDs” — similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers violating the FB terms of service. f'ing brilliant. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-11 View on X
Meta

Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to make it harder for attackers to scrape unauthorized data

similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers vio...

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2022-09-10
I'm glad that Facebook finally took action to protect userIDs from scraping. It's hard to know if they ever ran an experiment that someone could have suggested which would have caught advertisers using scraped IDs- would be quite the problem for some orgs! https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-10 View on X
Meta

Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to deter unauthorized data scraping

Takeaways  — We changed how we use Facebook Identifiers (FBIDs) after we observed that unauthorized scraping often involves guessing content IDs or using purchased FBIDs.

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@PrivaCat With all due respect, it does a ton for user privacy + it creates a feedback loop to catch unregistered data brokers. It was *profitable* to scrape Facebook. You grab a userID + scrape their FB likes, and now you've got yourself a custom audience that can be sold and activated.
2022-09-10 View on X
Meta

Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to deter unauthorized data scraping

Takeaways  — We changed how we use Facebook Identifiers (FBIDs) after we observed that unauthorized scraping often involves guessing content IDs or using purchased FBIDs.

View original
I almost want to call these “Canary UserIDs” — similar to Canary tokens which provide the “canary in the coalmine feature” to alert when there is a problem. The new pFBIDs both protect user privacy BUT ALSO flag advertisers violating the FB terms of service. f'ing brilliant. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-10 View on X
Meta

Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to deter unauthorized data scraping

Takeaways  — We changed how we use Facebook Identifiers (FBIDs) after we observed that unauthorized scraping often involves guessing content IDs or using purchased FBIDs.

View original
If you are still creating static IDs (cough *hashed email schemes*) you are at a massive risk for exfiltration of audience data. Do this: “We created Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers (PFBIDs), which combine timestamps and FBIDs to generate a unique time-rotating identifier. ” https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-10 View on X
Meta

Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to deter unauthorized data scraping

Takeaways  — We changed how we use Facebook Identifiers (FBIDs) after we observed that unauthorized scraping often involves guessing content IDs or using purchased FBIDs.

View original
@PrivaCat It literally prevents advertisers from sharing custom audiences that's the #1 , #2, #3, #4, #5 ... etc purposes This fixes a massive exfiltration problem & breaks the business model of dozens of shady orgs. They are bankrupt as of today. Literally. cheers.
2022-09-10 View on X
Meta

Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to deter unauthorized data scraping

Takeaways  — We changed how we use Facebook Identifiers (FBIDs) after we observed that unauthorized scraping often involves guessing content IDs or using purchased FBIDs.

View original