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by notuger 1555 days ago
the telegram channel name is related to a big hack activity in brazil last year, they always share brazilian news..
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It's also a relatively easy, cheap and common opsec strategy to mask your geographic location by constantly sharing news from a place you're not actually located at. Same as saying "good morning" every day to your "team" when actually it's night at your location.
I read years ago that the US "SEAL Team 6" was named to throw off adversaries (primarily Russia at the time; maybe again now?) that the US actually HAD at least 6 SEAL teams.
TFA said they started by targeting South American organisations, it tallies that they could be Brazilian.
This is reminding me of L in Death Note describing how he tracked Kira down to a particular Japanese neighborhood