11 years ago, a pivotal moment took place in the history of Ukraine. The Berkut special police unit killed 48 people in the center of Kyiv, Yanukovych fled, and the Russians started a war against Ukraine. Share this thread. It`s huge. 👇

⚠️ 🇺🇲 The FBI's own internal memo now assumes the worst case as its working premise: ShinyHunters likely stole personal data on every current and former bureau employee, not a subset. That includes Social Security numbers, home addresses, TSA PreCheck IDs that could track undercover agents' travel, psychiatric and medical records, and, most dangerously, unit assignments naming who works counterintelligence, narcotics, and Russian, Chinese and Iranian threat desks specifically, exactly the personnel foreign intelligence services would most want catalogued. Ciaran Martin, who used to run the UK's own cyberdefense agency, said this could rank worse than the 2015 OPM breach, and his reasoning is precise: "you knew the Chinese weren't going to sell or publish it." OPM was state espionage, quiet by design. ShinyHunters is a criminal extortion group that explicitly threatened to dump the data unless the FBI retracted a public advisory calling them out for harassment tactics, then reversed itself Monday, claiming it never intended to publish anything and calling the whole episode "a marketing campaign to protect our business." That walkback doesn't reduce the exposure. Security researchers are explicit that unpublished data can still be sold quietly to criminal networks or foreign governments, arguably the more dangerous outcome, since a public dump at least tells victims what's exposed. The technical root cause connects this directly to a vulnerability CISA had already flagged as high-risk months earlier. Google's own threat intelligence team reported ShinyHunters running a "mass exploitation" campaign against a PeopleSoft bug publicly disclosed and patched back in June, the same flaw investigators now believe breached the FBI. A federal agency running human-resources software with a known, patched vulnerability, three months after the patch existed, is the kind of institutional lag that turns a fixable bug into a historic breach. 🇳🇱 The Dutch arrest adds an odd coda rather than a resolution. Pepijn van der Stap, a convicted hacker who had rebuilt his public reputation as a reformed security professional working at a legitimate cybersecurity firm, was arrested in a raid involving flash-bang grenades, and his own former employer says an outside investigation has so far found no evidence he compromised the company or its clients. ShinyHunters itself denies any association with him. Whether his arrest connects meaningfully to the FBI breach at all is still unclear, a loose thread in an investigation whose central finding, that a government law enforcement agency doesn't know the true scope of its own employee data exposure, is already established regardless of how that thread resolves.

The updated @Google satellite images of #Gaza are quite incredible, for all to see...

Deputy Director at the FBI Leaves His Job “Andrew Bailey, who has served as deputy director of the FBI as part of an unusual leadership arrangement, is leaving the job after a little more than a year, the second such departure amid the turbulence in federal law... 1/2

JUST IN: Governor Brian Kemp is suspending Georgia's gas tax for the next month after declaring a state of emergency due to "global market volatility," according to a release: newschannel9.com/news/local/…

Kokomo is an American stained glass company who have been operating for 137 years — they even survived the Great Depression. They just announced they’ll be stopping all production, citing rising costs and other challenges for their decision. kokomolantern.com/blog/c/0/i…

A US ban on diesel exports that’s under consideration by Trump would increase gasoline prices, the boss of French oil major TotalEnergies said bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Netanyahu asked UAE leader to deny Haaretz Oct. 7 warning report in secret visit haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…

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🤬 Russian sources posted footage showing the bodies of residents of occupied Oleshky, on the left bank of the Dnipro River, who were reportedly trying to travel in search of food when they were killed by landmines.

I still remember date night in Wisconsin in the early years—Walmart and Dairy Queen😂

russian 18th CAA Unmanned Systems Regiment dropping a charge on a civilian walking her dogs in Kherson. 46.621594, 32.579608 @GeoConfirmed @Cen4infoRes

Dear Friends! We're so impressed by the "Russia is not my enemy" flash mob! And we fully share this idea! We're Russians and we're not your enemies! Warmongers should hear this. #NietOnzeOorlog

Eleven days before the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, Egypt's intelligence chief made a secret mission to Israel to warn officials of a possible assault. He was on the ground just 67 minutes, so intent he had to come in person. @vmsalama has the receipts. theatlantic.com/national-sec…

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced the “Army of Robots,” an initiative aimed at accelerating battlefield robotics and reducing risks to soldiers. He says humanoid robots should evacuate wounded troops, deliver ammunition, conduct reconnaissance, clear and lay mines, defend positions and strike targets. The initiative will invest in defense-tech companies, launch R&D projects, test systems with the military and scale solutions that work on the battlefield. #Ukraine

The Pentagon quietly added 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines to the Iran war casualty count.

🚨#BREAKING: Trump administration is reportedly laying groundwork for a U.S. invasion of Cuba within months.

First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS toast Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, with Elon Musk looking on, as @POTUS host a State Dinner at the White House.