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D,Petkow writes:
The honeymoon is over.
In 2024, French authorities nabbed Telegram founder Pavel Durov and the Kremlin had a geopolitical meltdown over their definition of 'freedom of speech.'
Now the FSB has issued its own international arrest warrant for Durov, charging him with 'facilitating terrorism.'
According to DW, the FSB is furious that Telegram's lack of moderation is biting them back.
They claim Ukrainian intelligence has been using Telegram dating bots to pose as young women, lure Russian teens, and get them to commit arson and sabotage against police stations. Essentially: 'Hot singles in your area want to burn down a draft office.'
Classic hypocrisy. Kremlin suddenly discovers unmoderated free speech isn't fun when it's happening in their own backyard and reverts to the trusty authoritarian playbook. Meanwhile, Telegram learns that playing neutral command-and-control platform for a ground war is a great way to end up on everyone's most-wanted list.
The official Telegram response on X/twitter is just a middle finger from Durov himself.
Durov thought he could ignore law enforcement forever, but it may turn out doing nothing unites East and West in the race to lock him up.
184434456
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D,Petkow writes:
Another day, another twitter/X scam, but this time involving the
official gold-verified accounts of both SPACEX and STARLINK, and another
gold-verified account, which is now suspended.
An account called "Sam Catman" somehow obtained an official SpaceXAI-affiliated *gold* badge and posted promotion for a new meme coin on Robinhood Chain.
Shortly afterward, the verified @SpaceXAI and Starlink accounts
reposted it, giving the scam instant credibility to millions of followers.
The token pumped hard before the expected rug pull. The original
posts have since been deleted.
As of now, there has been zero official acknowledgment or statement
from SpaceXAI, Starlink, or Elon Musk about how a high-profile
corporate account cluster was compromised so easily — or how the
"official affiliate" badge system was abused.
Full
story
As a result more than 120 000 USD have been stolen and laundered (so
far), how convenient.
Classic reminder that even the biggest names in tech can get owned
by a cartoon cat shilling a concurrency "memecoin". The gold badge
was apparently worth its weight in rug residue.
The lack of transparency also says plenty, as if never of this ever happened.
184401686
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D,Petkow writes:
Web Bros’ Latest Genius Move: Drop a Zip, Ship Malware
Cloudflare, Vercel, and Netlify have all launched their own “Drop”
services: upload a zip, get a live site instantly on their edge
networks.
Authentication and abuse protection? That’s for later.
Right now it’s pure vibes.
This is peak industry brain rot.
In a world already drowning in phishing, malware, and scam sites,
these platforms just rolled out the easiest, fastest way for bad
actors to host malicious content.
Drag-and-drop phishing kits on workers.dev, instant fake login pages
on Vercel, malware droppers on Netlify — all live in seconds with
zero friction.
No real verification. No serious upfront checks. Just “move fast and
let the internet clean up our mess."
The hopium these web bros are smoking must be nuclear grade quality. They’ve
spent years building trust in their platforms, only to turn them
into free malware CDNs for anyone with a zip file.This isn’t
democratizing the web.
This is handing phishers and scammers the keys with a smile.
Brilliant strategy, truly.
Nota bene — apparently real world bad actors beat red teams in
abusing those new "services".
Slow clap
Apparently all the web bros are drinking the same hopium-flavored
cool aid, where no phishers, c2s, implants and bad actors exist
whatsoever.
https://cloudflare.com/drop/
Same concept from vercel and netlify
https://vercel.com/drop
https://app.netlify.com/drop
https://x.com/JCyberSec_/statu...
Try a DAP.LIVE or URLSCAN.IO query to see abuse and workers.dev (and
pages.dev and r2.dev for that matter) — for each valid deployment,
there are hundreds of confirmed fraud scams.
Nice statistics, which will only get worse now.
Good job.
180044444
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D,Petkow writes:
Singapore is often hailed as one of the world’s most ultra-modern hubs — a place of gleaming skyscrapers, cutting-edge fintech, and futuristic urban planning. Yet, beneath the polished surface, the city-state still enforces some of the strictest old-school punishments imaginable.
In a move that stunned many outside observers, Parliament recently passed a law mandating at least six strokes of the cane for scammers and money mules. With scams making up nearly 60% of reported crimes and billions lost since 2020, the government argues that harsh deterrence is necessary.
It’s a striking contrast: a nation leading in smart cities and AI governance, while simultaneously wielding rattan canes against fraudsters. This duality — hyper-modern yet deeply traditional — is part of what makes Singapore fascinating, and sometimes bewildering, to the rest of the world.
https://says.com/my/news/singa...
http://metro.co.uk/2025/11/08/...
