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Welcome! We've been suspended on X. So we thought it would be a good time to start our TG chan to stay in touch with our followers.
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We believe we were targeted by the actor who previously took over Syrian government accounts.
vxunderground's account was quickly restored. Ours hasn't been restored yet. We're not sure if it will be.
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Someone on X says it was he who got us banned.
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Another day, our X account is still suspended. Appeal was sent yesterday.

X has become a weird platform where racist slurs get you boosted, but cybersecurity content gets you suspended.

Because cybersecurity is scary! πŸ‘€
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So we think our account might have gotten suspended because of threat actors who took over Syrian government accounts and started posting pro-Israel content and racist slurs.

They tagged our X account and several others. We're still looking into who else got suspended because of this.

Interesting story. More soon.
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So I have been having a lot of extra free time now since the ban. I hand washed my car. I did chores in and around the house.

It's awkward laying on the couch with my wife. Who is she? Haven't seen her in ages.

At the same time I see a lot of things passing by I want to write about, but I don't.

This just shows the importance of not putting all your eggs in one basket. Well I didn't put them all in one basket, but somehow X got more traction than other platforms.

Anyway, I would like to thank vxunderground and Solst/ICE for trying to help me in the background to get my account back.

This is a photo of a cat's ass, if any of you can share it with Nikita Bier maybe I will get unbanned instantly.
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‼️ AkzoNobel confirms they've been hit by a cyber attack.


We reached out to the threat actor behind the breach. They told us an affiliated partner hacked into their systems, extracted data and encrypted one of their branches.


According to them, AkzoNobel was using weak passwords and they brute forced their way in through Citrix Secure Access.
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We’re still banned from X.

Meanwhile on X πŸ˜‚
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Another one down. Threat actor 'John Lick' got caught thanks to ZachXBT's investigations.
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We're still fighting the suspension on X. Second appeal sent, no answer yet. We still have no idea why we're suspended. We still think we were targeted by a threat actor.

Meanwhile, we're going to use the EU Digital Services Act to force X to reach an out-of-court settlement before taking them to court.

This is me seeing X content today.

Hitler praise on X? No problem.
"Jews are cockroaches"? Algorithm loves it.
Blacks are dumb n****rs? Of course!
Cybersecurity content? SUSPENDED.

Make it make sense.
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We just found out X didn't even reply to our second appeal. So we sent a third one, this time with a more serious tone.

Combined with challenging them into an out-of-court settlement, we hope to have our account back next week.

If not, we will take X to court.
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