Good morning to all of you well rested infosec folks who are just now waking up to this newest catastrophe :)

Fine, fine, I’ll be nice. While you were sleeping, Google security notified of a long term (allegedly DPRK) SE campaign targeting infosec researchers on Twitter, ingratiating themselves into the community with minor research and blogs, then sending them malicious links and code.

The list of accounts is in the blog and 3 or 4 accounts were very active, messaged and drew in a ton of researchers, and successfully got some to execute malicious code in the name of exploit research. My thread is full of stories and screenshots. They hit a ton of people.

Here is the blog.

There are still a lot of unsubstantiated rumors and humble brags floating around about what else they did, so I would stick to the blog for now.

The past few days have been difficult as we witnessed the loss of two incredible performers. This is a tribute to the stories and magic they shared with us, that continue to live on.

RIP #SushantSinghRajput and #ChiranjeeviSarja

#Google The bullish setups often retrace/consolidate to regain further strength for an upmove. If you notice here, the stock is moving up with too many unfilled gaps indicating immense strength of the buyers.

1/ Yesterday’s closure of Stadia’s internal studios and business realignment shuttered Google’s cloud gaming platform strategy. In this thread I'll explain

2/ In the history of the game industry, first party content has been required for the success of platforms. Mario for Nintendo, Uncharted for Sony, HL2 for Steam. Microsoft knew this when they bought Bungie to release the Xbox.

3/ The only exception have been smart phones, which didn’t start as game platforms, and are only successful as game platforms without first party because Apple and Google have closed the ability for competition on their devices (hence recent antitrust.)

4/ Indeed, if Stadia was the only cloud gaming platform allowed on Android, given time, Stadia could have been successful without first party content. But Google wasn’t willing to do that, nor should it have done so.

5/ First party content is not just a way to start the engine, it is THE POINT of gaming platforms. No one wants a Nintendo Cube or Microsoft Box, they want fun games. There are lots of fun games today, and many places to get them from.