David Burge

@iowahawkblog

Happy John Bender Day to all who celebrate

1:23 PM · Mar 25, 2024

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1772313267291005130

Seven Hackers Associated with Chinese Government Charged with Computer Intrusions Targeting Perceived Critics of China and U.S. Businesses and Politicians

Defendants Operated as Part of the APT31 Hacking Group in Support of China’s Ministry of State Security’s Transnational Repression, Economic Espionage and Foreign Intelligence Objectives

Monday, March 25, 2024

View the indictment here.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1345141/dl?inline

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/seven-hackers-associated-chinese-government-charged-computer-intrusions-targeting-perceived

Treasury Sanctions China-Linked Hackers for Targeting U.S. Critical Infrastructure

March 25, 2024

The U.S. and UK take action against actors affiliated with the Chinese state-sponsored APT 31 hacking group.

WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, Limited (Wuhan XRZ), a Wuhan, China-based Ministry of State Security (MSS) front company that has served as cover for multiple malicious cyber operations. OFAC is also designating Zhao Guangzong and Ni Gaobin, two Chinese nationals affiliated with Wuhan XRZ, for their roles in malicious cyber operations targeting U.S. entities that operate within U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, directly endangering U.S. national security. This action is part of a collaborative effort with the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of State, and the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2205

Five Arrested in South Texas for Allegedly Trafficking Military Grade Firearms to Mexican Drug Cartel

Monday, March 25, 2024

SAN ANTONIO – Five individuals were arrested in Laredo, Hebbronville and Falls City Wednesday for allegedly trafficking military grade firearms to a drug cartel in Mexico.

According to court documents, Gerardo Rafael Perez Jr. aka “Jerry,” 23, of Laredo, allegedly coordinated the acquisition of more than 100 firearms throughout Texas to be smuggled across the international border and delivered to a drug trafficking cartel in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Perez’s organization allegedly used straw purchasers, including co-defendants Francisco Alejandro Benavides aka “Frankie,” 23, and Mark Anthony Trevino Jr., 24, to procure the firearms from a variety of sources in the Western, Southern, and Northern Districts of Texas. Court documents allege that the organization would acquire guns from unlicensed dealers of firearms, or from federal firearm licensees, where straw purchasers would make false representations to secure the firearms.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/five-arrested-south-texas-allegedly-trafficking-military-grade-firearms-mexican-drug

>The high-powered firearms allegedly acquired by Perez’s organization included FNH SCAR rifles, Barrett .50 caliber rifles, FNH M294S rifles, and M1919 rifles.

First joint meeting of the working group under the Inter-parliamentary Commission on Cooperation between the National People's Congress and the State Duma was held in Beijing

Meeting participants discussed issues of ensuring state sovereignty and security, countering foreign pressure and influence

March 25, 2024, 13:44

https://archive.is/xJjV0

http://duma.gov.ru/en/news/59052/

Victims of Communism

@VoCommunism

Vladimir Lenin died in 1924.

He left behind a legacy of mass murder, starvation, terror, and oppression.

Remember the victims.

12:50 PM · Mar 25, 2024

https://twitter.com/VoCommunism/status/1772304940339445982