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Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:<p>NEW: </p><p>Paying cyberattackers is wrong, right? Should Taos County's incident be an exception?</p><p>CAUTION: Post contains mention of CSA:</p><p><a href="https://databreaches.net/2025/07/23/paying-cyberattackers-is-wrong-right-should-taos-countys-incident-be-an-exception/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">databreaches.net/2025/07/23/pa</span><span class="invisible">ying-cyberattackers-is-wrong-right-should-taos-countys-incident-be-an-exception/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/databreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>databreach</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/extortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extortion</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/govsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>govsec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a></p>
Todd needs beer, badly. 🍻<p>They finally got me. Meta has essentially locked me out of Instagram (pictured) and Facebook. I can either...</p><p>* confirm that they can process my personal data for ads</p><p>or</p><p>* pay them €7.99/month on Instagram to "unlock" my account and not process my personal data for ads; plus €5.99/month on Facebook as my accounts aren't linked</p><p>Kind of reads like extortion to me.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/extortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extortion</span></a></p>
Kat O’Brien<p>Trump is building a machine to disappear people, violating due process, ignoring ethics and international law to do so. He is pressuring other countries to take migrants in exchange for better treatment &amp; perks from the U.S.(aka extortion).<br>Gift link.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/migration-deportation-sudan-trump.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/migration-deportation-sudan-trump.html</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/extortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extortion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>This term,🚨Trump's made 99 visits to his properties, incl 62 visits to his golf courses, a 37%⬆️from last term.</p><p>Foreign govt officials from 10 countries have made 19 visits to his props, with st govt officials visiting 17X in the last 6 months. Special interest grps, pol CMTEs &amp; foreign govts have held 49 events at his props, 16X than this time in his 1st term.</p><p>He's promoted his props by mentioning them 57X, a 78%⬆️from the 1st term.<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Bribery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bribery</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Extortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extortion</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Emoluments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emoluments</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/trumps-term-2-corruption-by-the-numbers-more-golf-trips-more-foreign-visitors-and-more-profits/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">citizensforethics.org/reports-</span><span class="invisible">investigations/crew-reports/trumps-term-2-corruption-by-the-numbers-more-golf-trips-more-foreign-visitors-and-more-profits/</span></a></p>

As Trump takes a beating from his MAGA crowd for his handling of the case of #Epstein,🚨his St Dept decimated its office combating human trafficking.

#StDept cut 1,353 jobs. RIF targeted foreign policy goals: don’t align with MAGA values incl offices that promote democracy, combat genocide & violent extremism, help resolve armed conflicts, & supported women’s rights.

#Corruption #HumanTrafficking #Bribery #Extortion... extolled, but only for #TrumpRegime /cronies.
#USPol motherjones.com/politics/2025/

Mother JonesThe State Department guts its office combating human traffickingThe cuts come as Trump reels from MAGA anger over sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

#UK Charges Four in ‘Scattered Spider’ #Ransom Group

Authorities in the #UnitedKingdom this week arrested four alleged members of “Scattered Spider,” a prolific data theft and #extortion group whose recent victims include multiple airlines and the U.K. retail chain Marks & Spencer.
#privacy #scatteredspider

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/uk

krebsonsecurity.comUK Arrests Four in ‘Scattered Spider’ Ransom Group – Krebs on Security
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…"We thought they had enough sway to talk to the right people. Obviously, that proved incorrect," Dustin Stewart, #Trump's deputy special envoy for hostage affairs, who was involved in the initiative, told Reuters.

#Congo has become a focus of #US diplomatic efforts to end the decades-long conflict in the east & help American companies access critical #minerals, making the country ripe territory for endeavours [pillaging] such as this mission.

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Reuters pieced together the course of events by speaking to the 3 Americans on the trip, a #State Dept ofcl involved in the initiative, & 2 people the trio met during their brief stay in #Congo's capital Kinshasa.

The story of the ill-fated venture, which has not previously been reported, provides a glimpse of how the #Trump admin…works through *unconventional* channels in pursuit of *deals* to bring Americans home….

Even more arrests! Reuters reports:

Four people have been arrested as part of a police investigation into cyberattacks that disrupted the operations of retailers Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods, Britain's National Crime Agency said.

The cyberattack on M&S was the most serious, costing it about 300 million pounds ($409 million) in lost operating profit.

The NCA said two males aged 19, another aged 17, and a 20-year-old female were apprehended in the West Midlands, central England, and London on Thursday on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, blackmail, money laundering and participating in the activities of an organised crime group.

More at reuters.com/business/retail-co

At U.S. request, France jails Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of ransomware conspiracy:

meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/10/a

France and the U.S. appear to be collaborating quite a bit. The U.S. will be seeking his extradition.

The report doesn't mention what #ransomware group Kasatkin was allegedly involved with, and I don't see any case docketed against Kasatkin on PACER.

Meduza · At U.S. request, France jails Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of ransomware conspiracyBy Meduza

Kentfield Hospital is a critical care hospital in California. They appear to have been the victim of a cyberattack by World Leaks, who claim to use an exfiltration-extortion model.

The hospital has not responded to an inquiry sent to it over the weekend, so they have neither confirmed nor denied any attack at this point, but I was able to preview the data tranche and reported on it all here:

databreaches.net/2025/07/05/ke

"Iran-linked hackers threatened to disclose more emails stolen from President Donald Trump's circle, after distributing a prior batch to the media ahead of the 2024 US election.

Group leaked documents from Republican president's campaign last year. US has said group known as Robert works for Iran's Revolutionary Guards."

Karma!
#Iran #Hackers #Extortion #Trump #TrumpRegime #USPol
reuters.com/legal/government/i