Corporate Governance & Cyber Defense

T oday the US Department of Treasury (and some US allies) announced new sanctions against Russian individuals and entities [1] [2] [3] . This is not new and the US department also starts adding crypto currency addresses (CYBER2 program) since last year. For OSINT analyst that like to do crypto currency investigations this information might be of interest ... unfortunately it is hard to get in an easy and structured way using https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/ To ease your work I compiled an Excel list: https://github.com/thomasbiege/OSINT/blob/main/financial-mapping/US-sanction-lists.xlsx Feel free to add new entries!   Best, Thomas

About 2 days ago bleepingcomputers reported about a leak of over 500.000.000 Facebook user records. Scratching the surface revealed that the data is available to nearly everyone. Here are some numbers to estimate the magnitute of the leak. 77 Gb of plaintext data from 105 countries world wide can be found on the Internet. Some indicators make clear that at least part of the data is from 2019, but only Facebook can make clear if there is also more current data included. The collections seem not to be from one web scraping session, but might be local web scraping campaigns in each country. Some file names are even in local languages. A world map with all countries (file size in MB).     Here are the top 20 based on file size in MB.   The data is of the following categories. name sex relationship status address employer email address (very seldom) year of birth (very seldom) telephone number (very seldom) some dates and IDs Note that citizens from various EU states are affected which is