Nate Beach-Westmoreland's Starter Pack
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@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@josephcox.bsky.social
Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
@ninajankowicz.com
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org 🙅🏻♀️ Author, disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse. 😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult
@agreenberg.bsky.social
Writer for WIRED. Author of SANDWORM. New book, TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out now. agreenberg@wired.com. Andy.01 on Signal.
@kevincollier.bsky.social
I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.
@dmitri.silverado.org
Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber Chairman @silverado.org Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS Co-Founder CrowdStrike @DAlperovitch elsewhere
@ridt.bsky.social
Author of ACTIVE MEASURES, RISE OF THE MACHINES, CYBER WAR WILL NOT TAKE PLACE, "Attributing Cyber Attacks," more. Johns Hopkins, Alperovitch Institute.
@kevinrothrock.me
Russia watcher supreme. @meduza.io English-language managing editor. (Check my Bluesky Anglophone Russia list.) Based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
@lorenzofb.bsky.social
Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch. Tweets about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 Past lives: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED.
@kimzetter.bsky.social
Journalist - cyber/natn'l security. Speaker. Author - COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon Signal: KimZ.42 https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp/0770436196 https://www.zetter-zeroday.com
@zachsdorfman.bsky.social
National Security Reporter. Features in Politico, Rolling Stone, Wired, Foreign Policy. Working on a book on the history of deep cover for Penguin-Random House. It’s always Berlin 1989 somewhere. Email: thebrushpass1@protonmail.com
@ellenwapo.bsky.social
Intelligence and national security reporter at The Washington Post. Reach me securely on Signal at Ellen.626.
@ericjgeller.com
Senior reporter at Cybersecurity Dive covering all things digital security. I also co-host Hoth Takes. | Send me tips: bit.ly/contactejg
@jennamclaughlin.bsky.social
NPR Cybersecurity Correspondent (currently) reporting on the transformation of the federal government including by DOGE. Send me a tip: Text JennaMcLaughlin.54 on Signal from personal (nonwork) devices.
@olgs7.bsky.social
Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
@ajvicens.bsky.social
Cybersecurity correspondent at Reuters; former Mother Jones, CyberScoop. Will bore you with skateboarding, UFO lore or Denver Broncos minutiae on request. Signal: ajvicens.57, additional contact methods: https://tinyurl.com/47jc45h7
@rgblights.bsky.social
Cyber guy. Former NSA cybersecurity director and chief of TAO. Lover of memes. Warning - occasional outrageous Christmas light content.
@selenalarson.bsky.social
cyber, dogs, sports, memes. she/her. podcaster. "bluesky's humblest resident nailfluencer 💅" - Jerry my heart is in the west 🌵🌊
@chrisbing.bsky.social
@propublica.org reporter: hacking, intelligence and foreign affairs. @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social grad. 📧email: christopher.bing@propublica.org / 📞Signal:771-217-8550. More contact info: http://bit.ly/2wagIS7
@shanehuntley.bsky.social
Aussie security / tech guy. Google Threat Intelligence. Co-founder Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Tweets are my own not my employers.
@leefosterintel.bsky.social
AI Security / Cyber Threat Intel / Disinformation / Influence Operations. Founder aspectlabs.ai, Adjunct at Johns Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies, formerly Director of Influence Ops Analysis at Mandiant. All views my own etc.
@pylos.co
Threat Intel / CTI / OT / ICS / Critical Infra stuff along with other things. I genuinely care, and wish others did too. Website: pylos.co Training/Consulting: paralus.co
@campuscodi.risky.biz
☆ Cybersecurity reporter ★ Newsletters at Risky Business #infosec #cybersecurity https://risky.biz
@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social
Security & Privacy. Data Protection. Research. Engineering. Analyst. Policy. W3C. Consultant. Author. King’s College London/War Studies. lukaszolejnik.com/books blog.lukaszolejnik.com techletters.substack.com
@dagrano.bsky.social
Fmr. NSC Director, Intelligence. Director, Threat Disruption @ Meta. Rescue Dog Pilot, Flight Instructor, Former Big Hair Practitioner 🏳️🌈
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
@jags.bsky.social
Executive Director for Intelligence and Security Research @ SentinelOne. Distinguished Fellow and Adj Professor @ Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute. Three Buddy Problem Co-Host. LABScon Founder, Cyber Paleontologist, Fourth-Party Collector.
@moore.bsky.social
Cyber-warfare | PhD from KCL | Author of 'Offensive Cyber Operations' | Security @ Meta
@maxwsmeets.bsky.social
Author of No Shortcuts & Ransom War Co-director Virtual Routes (https://virtual-routes.org/), previously ECCRI Managing Editor Binding Hook (https://bindinghook.com) Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich
@charles.dardaman.com
Security | Hacking | Malware | Reverse Engineering | Co-Founder | CTO | Product | MSAI - UT
@silascutler.bsky.social
You may know me from your server logs. Malware, Hacks, Internet Scanning, CTI w00w00, Censys, IST
@clintwatts.bsky.social
Current: Microsoft, NBC/MSNBC Former: US Army, FBI Clintwatts.substack.com
@snlyngaas.bsky.social
Cybersecurity reporter, CNN. Signal +1-202-355-8471. sean[dot]lyngaas@cnn[dot]com
@wylienewmark.bsky.social
cyber(punk) threat intel. cyber operations, counterintelligence, russia, iran. i see kanly today in everything. “bloody inertia interspersed with bouts of bloody frenzy.” creator: #FUZZYSNUGGLYDUCK, drilangleton, Beff Horn. opinions are my own.
@hultquist.bsky.social
Mandiant Intelligence at Google. CYBERWARCON and SLEUTHCON founder. Johns Hopkins professor. Army vet.
@gregotto.bsky.social
@gregotto from twitter, now on bluesky. Editor-in-Chief at CyberScoop. Better with words than I am with code.
@hatr.bsky.social
reporter covering cyber (both crime and state-sponsored) for Der Spiegel and ZDF, short overview at https://linktr.ee/hakantanriverdi
@activemeasures.bsky.social
Active Measures, LLC is a full service research and writing firm. For details see activemeasuresllc dot com or reach out to walkin [at] activemeasuresllc [dot] com.
@kikta.net
// Somehow a CISO // JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute adjunct // @istorg.bsky.social adjunct sr tech advisor // Former USCYBERCOM/CNMF // Retired US Marine Corps // Personal views and invective
@thepacketrat.net
Birb stalker. Cat tree. Cyber Threat Researcher. Recovering cyber and natsec journalist. Navy vet. Meme war survivor. Creator of CyberThreaterator and Sean's Vuln Emotes (SVE) #Baltimore @thepacketrat everywhere since 1994. https://falling-anvil.com
@gabagool.ing
fka @gabbyroncone on twitter. mission tech lead for RU & Eastern European APT ops @Google. views expressed here are mine, not my employer’s. she/her.
@hostilespectrum.bsky.social
Former intel, now academic @NDU_CIC, @TheKrulakCenter, @SIWPSColumbia @ColumbiaSIPA, @CyberStatecraft, @ElliottSchoolGW, @PAISWarwick. Apolitical, views=own
@uticaeric.bsky.social
Former intelligence and policy professional, lawyer, investor, and soldier. In a kind of exile, approaching what's next. “…and that's how I know he can be beaten. Because he's a fanatic. And the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.”
@bushidotoken.net
🇬🇧 | Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Team Cymru | Co-author SANS FOR589 | Co-founder Curated Intel
@natebeachw.bsky.social
Cyber threat analyst focused on state-aligned adversaries. Opinions are my own, not my employer's. #threatintel #infosec #osint