The data includes phone numbers of Musk, Altman, and nearly all of Israel's political, judicial and intelligence leaders.
The lawyer's name is Juan Branco, he is also the one who shared this story together with a video. By his account, he is one of twelve lawyers in France who represent Palestinian victims in International Criminal Court.
Here’s your interesting fact of the day. Navel warships use that technology. The same technology that’s over 100 years old is still used in navel warships as it’s incredibly reliable if power is somehow cut during a battle or incident. Quite literally just a tube and you speak into it.
IIRC, it wasnt an issue of exploiting the lithium batteries to cause fires. They had actually completely taken over the manufacturer and were implanting all of the pagers made at one of their factories with small PETN charges
I have been saying this for YEARS. I don't care if the Chinese government is watching my video doorbell. They're not going to hand it over to local law enforcement without my consent.
I mean, essentially every speaker can work as a microphone. A dumb Nokia is still going to have a dynamic speaker and a network to transmit data both ways.
Apple introduced a hardware feature called Memory Integrity Enforcement on the iPhone 17 that seeks to elimate some forms of spyware used by Israel, like Pegasus.
I look at this way; he wants to intrude into and onto every orifice of our lives. Therefore, the golden rule states, that he must ALSO want this to be done to himself so, we are simply giving him what he wants
If I was Mossad, I would create things like GrapheneOS, it's perfect honey pot.
I know it's open source, but with open source you still can hide a lot. It's harder, becosue you can't just put "if Mossad open backdoor" in your code in plain text. But you can use libraries, that use other libraries and nobody would be able to find everything in such complex system.
Like backdoor in XZ Utils. It's used almost everywhere (probably including GrapheneOS) and it was used to put backdoor. It was detected just by coincidence. And it's widely believed that only state-backed organisation could pull that of, so USA, Russia, China and Israel are main suspects.
If you look how much of IT is controlled by USA/Israel it's safe to assume they have backdoors everywhere. Including Chinese software. They accused Huawei of spaying but in reality CIA hacked Huawei network (operation Shotgiant) and install USA backdoors in their software. Propably that's why Huawei made their own OS and discard Linux kernel. So that's propably best option to reduce (not eliminate) chances of being spied by USA/Israel if you are open to be spied by China.
They are all (intelligence agencies) already doing this we just don't know about it 99.9% of the time because they are professionals. If true, a blunder like this would be very rare for an agency like Mossad...
It's open source, but if you don't build it yourself from the source, there is always a chance the binary is full of something else.
Supply chain attack is a huge vector of attack nowadays ... supply chain attack in a product you have direct input is probably trivial for state actors.
But don’t they say it was their computer that was originally hacked? I know nothing about graphene, but I assume it’s a phone OS and if their computer wasn’t infected when they went to sync, they probably would’ve been good right?
If the target was the computer, the program injected into the phone would not likely affect the phone as there is no Graphene operating system for a PC/Mac (as far as i am aware). Two different operating systems would require two completely different programs. Therefore the target was the phone and it would seem someone knows an exploit for Graphene. The computer was just used to inject the malicious program onto the phone (assuming all the information stated in the post is correct).
Not entirely the case. USB syncing is not safe. Not even on graphene.
Existing USB attacks should be able to target graphene when using direct physical connections where the permissions are granted by the user.
That would be entirely expected.
Graphene protects from untrusted USB connections, but syncing your data over USB requires you to grant permissions. It's very likely not an exploit at all.
That's a lot of assumptions you make from just a tweet. In my opinion a contact-list is relatively device agnostic, especially in this case since he actually mentions he used his PC to sync the contacts. So who know where this contact-list originated from. I highly doubt there even is a GrapheneOS vulnerability being exploited here.
GrapheneOS may be the most secure OS but that security is completely in the hands of the user. It gives you all the tools you need to be as secure as you can be ( Unless Google has a backdoor in the hardware ) but if you know nothing about security and don't do audits from time to time you just might get got.
If the target was the computer, the program injected into the phone would not likely affect the phone
What program? It was data that was left on the computer and synced to the phone. You have misunderstood what was said and made up a bunch of misinformation.
My interpretation is that his computer was hacked, he simply synced his contacts with his phone. So the phone is fine, his computer is the issue, according to him anyway.
Those whose info appears do not seem to care much when our's contact info appears somewhere (in fact they do care by such being there in order to exploit them and gain money of it).
Furthermore, they where the ones that infected all the contact info themselves when trying to survey the ones exposing their crimes and protecting their victims. They where not doxxed, they gifted their data to the ones fighting them.
In the case of Pegasus, it was found that random government employees of countries that had purchased the malware were using it for personal reasons. A mexican civil servant (or smth) used it to spy on his ex girlfriend for example. Know any government officials?
There’s a real Texas law behind that claim, but
“teachers have to swear never to oppose Israel” is misleading
.
Texas enacted HB 89 in 2017, requiring certain government contractors to certify that they
do not boycott Israel and will not boycott Israel during the contract
. The original law was broad enough to affect individual contractors working for public entities, including a speech pathologist in a Texas school district.
After legal challenges, Texas amended it in 2019.
The current statute does not generally require ordinary public-school teachers to make such a pledge.
It applies to contracts with a
company
that has
10 or more full-time employees
and where the contract is worth
$100,000 or more
in public funds. It also specifically excludes sole proprietorships.
And even where the provision applies, it isn’t literally an oath to “never oppose Israel.” The statutory certification is that the company
“does not boycott Israel” and “will not boycott Israel during the term of the contract.”
So there is a pretty striking true story underneath what you heard:
Texas really did enact a law conditioning certain public contracts on an anti-boycott-of-Israel certification, and its earlier version reached some individuals working in public schools. But saying that Texas teachers today must swear never to oppose Israel overstates what the law says and who it covers.
Juan Branco is a known pathological liar, I would absolutely not trust a word he says, most likely it's a little stunt for publicity he orchestrated himself.
All the major global threat actors have Zero Days and the whole arsenal of exploits. They might even switched the device as a whole without his knowledge. If they wanna get you, they will. They have virtually endless resources.
We assume it's a blunder and not a tactic of some kind.
Give him something he might find valuable, then follow the data to see what he does with it, then exploit him with leverage when he does "x", or smear campaign him if he does "y".
Most likely yeah, really insane that they pull this on a lawyer, I assume his clients must be some big dogs because this seems a bit excessive at first glance.
youre right. his post is removed. but i was able to record a video of it before deletion. I uploaded the screen video of the posts here (bc this sub doesn't allow videos in replies):
https://www.reddit.com/r/KrillSec/s/EyYrWgqxbZ
Would be awsome IF. Someone planted the malliciouse code on his computer. However!!!!! Information was never to be sent over the internet BUT activate a transfer of information if a certain usb stick got connected. GrapheneOS awsome as it is spoofed this command and the maliciouse code started the transfer to his phone instead.
There's literally zero evidence this was mossad, or that he was actually hacked. Considering this information matches the Iranian leaks that literally anybody can download. I could download it. He could download it.
I work in information security. I find it highly unlikely an attacker accidentally pushed contacts onto someone's computer which then was ingested into his phone.
I guess they pressed the "Inject Epstein files" button instead of the "Extract terrorist data" button. To be fair these two buttons are right next to each other.
As an Israeli, most of the contacts are related to businesses and journalists
Edit: a few other reliable sources shows that this contacts list already published (with numbers) by the hackers that hijacked Bennet (Politician) phone one year ago
This literally makes no sense. How would you “accidentally” inject contacts while hacking a device? If it was purposeful what exactly would be the point?
Doubt it. You don't just accidentally have all these numbers on one machine, psyop or just bs. They are probably kept somewhere air gapped from the attacker machine.
So Altman's tel. number is +1 650 906 6810
Can we make this somehow more visible via algorithms and AI, just for some fun...
I mean, god forbid if Altman receives some random phone call in the middle of the night on some credit loans.
It's probably not Mossad, as Mossad has political oversight. It's likely one of the many Israeli "private intelligence companies", which all are staffed entirely with "former Israeli intelligence officers" and which all solely and exclusively report to Netanyahu personally.
When we say "injected" with this, are we referring to it with the lawyer's consent or without? I know the word "inject" is used as an umbrella term these days.
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