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Account age
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📊 Post engagement
54
Avg engagement / post
2.8%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: If you're following the situation in Iran, this one is of intere · 209 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.06 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
5.3×
Follows 366 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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“I wish the frontier labs spent as much time on teaching their models to write secure infrastructure as they are spending on them exploiting vulnerabilities.”
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-models-escaped-containment-and-hacked-hugging…
More than just Pegasus, the whistleblowers described how different aspects of spying in Morocco work, in a very detailed way.
We published a follow-up to the Pegasus-spyware today
Some links:
https://forbiddenstories.org/projects_posts/pegasus-project-inside-moroccos-spying-machine/
Spiegel, gift link
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/marokko-wie-das-land-die-digita…
So, Enisa, the cybersecurity agency of the EU, releases a yearly Threat Landscape. In the 2025 edition, they've used AI. And the AI introcuded loads of errors. Five percent of all the links end up 404
One of the researchers.(@wavehackr) t…
"Die Zeit" reveals that German foreign intelligence, in a multi-year campaign, intercepted Barack Obama's phone calls while aboard Air Force One because the encryption was flawed. Angela Merkel didn't know about it.
https://www.zeit.de/po…
"The computer contained a complex system of individually encrypted hard drives with 33 terabytes of stolen data, carefully organized into more than 4,000 folders. "
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-dutch-hacking-spree/?accessToken=e…
I’ve been writing a lot of stories about state-sponsored cyberespionage by China. The case we’re revealing today is a prime example of this, telling the story of a five-year campaign against one of the key players in 🇩🇪 the Volkswagen grou…
While working on #VulkanFiles, I received a tip: an interesting file had been dropped on Virustotal. It turned out to be the master’s thesis by Evgenii Serebriakov, the person who’s heading infamous Sandworm team, part of Russia's militar…
Researchers with the Chaos Computer Club bought items on eBay that turned out to have stored iris scans of 2,632 people, mostly from people living in Iraq and Afghanistan. But also data from members of the U.S. Army:
From the NYT:
"detaile…
Hey. got a quick announcement. Starting next month, i'll join "paper trail media", a german media startup focused on investigative journalism.
They're the ones who did
– Panama Papers
– Xinjiang Police Files
– Pegasus Project (NSO and ha…
Re-sharing this over here because it might be of interest to the people on this instance (also, it's sort of an introduction :ablobcool:).
I recently gave a talk at the Virusbulletin-conference on how reporters find and fact-check storie…
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Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 54 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
80/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~2.8% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Hi there. I. am working as a reporter and covering cybersecurity, mostly I'm interested in APT-related research. I'm with "paper trail media" and Der Spiegel.
If you want to check out the work I'm doing, here are some useful links: https://linktr.ee/hakantanriverdi
I gave a presentation at Virusbulletin this year in which I describe the process of reporting and then fact-checking tips I get while working on these types of stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtlTF1Ajjdw
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