Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 3/4/23
Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 3/4/23
Wirecard's profound ties to Russian intelligence, Viasat hack took months to reveal, The fall of UK digital policymaking, 28,000 apps receive TikTok data, OSINT firm tracks Russian soldiers
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How the Biggest Fraud in German History Unravelled
The New Yorker’s Ben Taub has this in-depth investigation into how Germany’s once once-feted financial services company Wirecard, which was embraced by the country’s elite and government as Europe’s answer to PayPal and collapsed in 2020 after nearly $2 billion was discovered missing from the company’s accounts, had profound ties to Russian intelligence.
It is unclear what [Wirecards’ COO Jan Marsalek] was up to. He seemed to take every opportunity to play a part in political matters, no matter how strange or futile. At one point, he involved himsel…
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