@googlecloud Threat Intel Comms Lead. I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. @markkarayan.bsky.social

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A few thoughts on election threats as we enter the final stretch. There is a pretty established history of last-minute activity from some of the foreign malign actors possibly in play and they are very aware of the unique criticality and opportunity in this short time frame. 1/x
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North Korea tonight appears to have conducted its First Launch this Year of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, with the Missile being launched at a High Vertical Angle and then Splashing-Down in the Sea of Japan. This is the First ICBM Test by North Korea since December 18th of 2023, when North Korea carried out a Successful Test of the Solid-Fuel “Hwaseong-18” Intercontinental Ballistic Missile; this Test also only comes a day after the South Korean Ministry of Defense had reported that North Korea was preparing to deploy a Road-Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, using a New 12-Axle Transporter, Erector, Launcher (TEL).
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Having ADD / ADHD is when you tell your wife you're going to clean the house and, naturally, you start with cleaning the outside windows instead of the laundry.
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23 Sep 2024
New blog post from Mandiant dives deeper into the North Korean remote IT worker problem. "I’ve spoken to dozens of Fortune 100 organizations that have accidentally hired North Korean IT workers," says @Mandiant CTO Charles Carmakal. cloud.google.com/blog/topics…
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The North Korean IT worker scheme makes "the need for vigilance and proactive measures even more crucial for HR leaders, hiring managers, and executives alike." via @aptwhatnow #HR #hiringmanager #recruitment shrm.org/executive-network/i…
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It's begun....
18 Sep 2024
BREAKING: The Fed cuts rates by half a point in a decisive bid to defend the US economy. Follow our coverage here: trib.al/mVlTFLC
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Legends never die
9 Sep 2024
BREAKING: James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars, has died at 93
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5 Sep 2024
New: Capitalizing on a post-Covid boom in remote work and advances in AI, North Koreans have duped U.S. employers into hiring them for hundreds—and potentially thousands—of low-level IT jobs, a scheme earning millions for DPRK's nuclear weapons program. wsj.com/tech/north-korean-sp…
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Trader Joe's store managers getting ready for pumpkin spice season

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25 Aug 2024
1/2 “HoW cOuLd YoU hIrE a DpRk It WoRkEr?” Easier to do than you think Razzle dazzle with some facilitators. Sprinkle in some stand ins for face time and drug tests…viola
24 Aug 2024
There is software that makes any job interview easy. The OfferGoose application listens to your interview and tells you the correct answers in real-time. It seems that now all interviews will only take place in the office.
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If you want to get a behind the scenes look into this investigation, check out our upcoming presentation at @mWISEConference where we'll share how @Mandiant, the FBI, & the U.S. Attorney's Office collaborated to bring cybercriminal Jesse Kipf to justice. mwise.mandiant.com/
On Tuesday, August 20th, 2024, the United States Department of Justice did a press release on the most intelligent person in world history. Jesse Kipf, 29 of Somerset, Kentucky, USA, owed a total of $195,758.65 in child support. Jesse, being a true intellectual, decided to the best decision was to compromise the United States Hawaii Death Registry System, using stolen credentials from a physician in a different state outside of Hawaii, and insert himself into the Death Registry. Additionally, he used his own name, Jesse Kipf, to assert his own death and certified his own death using the name Jesse Kipf tl;dr Jesse Kipf died, death was certified by the deceased Jesse Kipf and corpse of Jesse Kipf was verified by the deceased Jesse Kipf (recursive death certification and verification?) The death certificate was signed by a different physicians stolen signature. He was sentenced to 6 years and 7 months in prison for being a true intellectual.
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If there was ever a year for @Couchsurfing to get some free brand recognition....
6 Aug 2024
Like all regular people in America's heartland, JD Vance studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and wrote a bestseller trashing that community. Come on. I can't wait to debate the guy—that is, if he's willing to get off the couch and show up.
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4 Aug 2024
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Great mini documentary - especially loved seeing that Russian hackers with insider info still can't always figure out the market like the rest of us
In our brand new documentary “Putin’s Trader,” which is out today, this former Russian spy tells me attacks on Wall Street and American companies are a deliberate part of Vladimir Putin’s agenda.
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Things people in Colorado don’t believe in: 1. Discussing work /what you do for work 2. Replacing their brake lights
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PSA to any Olympians who see this: Please have 2FA/MFA enabled on all of your accounts, use a password manager, and change weak/re-used PWs. Many young folks become world-famous overnight, with tons of personal information about them being shared that attackers can use.
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Most of us aren't interesting targets for attackers/cyber stalkers, and a lot of these athletes have enjoyed that same anonymity til now. "So and so is up next. He/She grew up in <Your hometown>, and graduated from <school> *camera cuts to parents w/ their names*
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28 Jul 2024
Olympic athlete: *Makes one tiny mistake* Me: "Pathetic"
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“We sent them their Mac workstation, and the moment it was received, it immediately started to load malware.” Damn - North Korean IT workers have no chill. At least peruse the corporate discounts page first, my dude!
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The leaders of a Russian nationalist hacktivist group were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department on Friday over a January incident that caused overflowing water storage tanks in multiple counties in Texas. hubs.li/Q02HCWVP0
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