Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Weeks of 8/21/23 and 8/28/23

Inside Coffee Co.'s computer intrusion, Unmasking Trickbot, Criminal use of credit headers, Brazil's Instagram stolen account retrieval boom, Chinese sextortionists exploit X's blue check policy, more

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What the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia?

Anna Bower, Lawfare’s Legal Fellow and Courts Correspondent, delivers this opus on the computer intrusion that occurred in Coffee County, GA, which figures prominently in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s election interference indictment, outlining in detail how Cathy Latham, a public school teacher and chairwoman of the Coffee County GOP, and local election officials, aided by shady cybersecurity characters, worked to “unlawfully access secure voting equipment and voter data” and “stole data, including ballot images, voting equipment software and personal vo…