by Scott Stedman and Jackie Singh This piece originally appeared in Forensic News on August 1, 2022. The Russian oligarch who once purchased one of Donald Trump’s properties for $95 million hired a team of private agents to spy on a romantic partner in New York, Las Vegas, and Los…

While France, Norway, and Germany sounded the alarm, America didn’t, despite the massive connection to a U.S.-based private military firm mired in previous surveillance scandals and founded by a former CIA employee. Then, a popular sports journalist recently critical of Qatar dies suddenly under mysterious circumstances while at the stadium…

So, who was it? I have an idea. Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and several of his associates have been indicted today by the U.S. Department of Justice for sanctions evasion and obstruction of justice. Here is the Reuters piece: U.S. unseals indictment against Oleg Deripaska for violating sanctions NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unsealed an indictment accusing the Russian industrialist…www.reuters.com

The fraudsters who tried to steal multiple presidential elections by psychologically targeting Americans via stolen Facebook data at Cambridge Analytica got their new firms bailed out by the U.S. Government . In case you hadn’t heard, the White House’s Twitter account recently went fully off the rails. In a demonstration…

A rapid analysis to try and untangle a few things. Dear Reader, here is the ‘bottom line, up front’: An influence operation that centers TikTok as a cause of concern has re-emerged with new data and purveyors. Early reviews by independent security experts indicate that the dataset does not appear…

He says he was deployed to Iraq. We have no real reason to believe otherwise. But is the Governor of Florida lying about this photo? A few weeks back, I was reading an old article about Ron DeSantis from his time campaigning in Florida, and I came across this photograph. …

Is the world of blockchain as intimidating as it sounds? Information security consultant Jackie Singh interviewed Web3 security practitioners to get their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in securing these new internet technologies. Interviews have been edited and condensed for clarity. When my partner, Jason, unexpectedly received an offer…

Chaos Actors have yet again rigged up a fresh scandal by claiming new data belonging to the President’s son has leaked via 4chan. Who’s interested? Dear Reader, Mass surveillance of BitTorrent downloads has been around for a long time. Recently, some of the world’s political chaos actors decided to try…