#iraq

The war against #Iran is like the war against #Iraq
but much... MUCH less believable.
Plus
MUCH worse conduct
with devastating consequences
a TOTAL clusterfuck !
This is because #Trump is an > idiot <.
MUCH stupider than #Bush...
A LOT stupider !

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An Iranian-aligned threat cluster used a convincing recruitment exercise to target a likely Iraqi software engineer connected to critical infrastructure. The campaign, tracked as Blinder Tunnel, paired a fake Dubai Airports careers portal with a weaponized Visual Studio project that could execute attacker code as soon as the victim opened the supposed coding test.

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 tracks the activity as CL-STA-1178 and assessed with high confidence that it has an Iranian nexus. Researchers found no evidence that Dubai Airports itself was breached or vulnerable; its identity was used as social engineering cover. Preparations date to November 2025, while the observed operation became active in March 2026.

A patient recruitment lure built trust firstThe initial package was an Inno Setup application named “Dubai Airport Careers.” It opened a local imitation of a recruitment site, accepted credentials supplied by the supposed hiring team and displayed a ten-question human-resources form. Investigators found that this first stage neither stole the entered information nor installed malware.

That restraint appears deliberate. By making the portal behave like a plausible application process, the operators reduced suspicion before delivering a personalized archive named DubaiAirport_Carrers_IT_Test.zip. Its instructions addressed the target and asked the candidate to open a C# flight-management project, then correct a simple loop error.

The technique exploits an important developer trust assumption: a source project looks like material to inspect, not an executable installer. Yet modern development environments evaluate project metadata automatically. The victim did not need to compile the program for the malicious chain to begin.

Visual Studio project launches the infectionA modified FlightManager.csproj abused Visual Studio’s background evaluation behavior. It created a misleading RuntimeBrokers directory beneath local application data and launched RuntimeBroker.exe. The attackers then altered an application configuration file to hijack AppDomainManager, causing malicious code to load before the legitimate host application.

The configuration also disabled Event Tracing for Windows, weakening a telemetry source defenders use to identify suspicious .NET execution. The chain proceeded through DLL sideloading: a renamed legitimate Visual Studio hosting binary loaded an attacker-controlled RuntimeBroker.dll, identified as the ShelbyLoader V2 loader.

ShelbyLoader established persistence with a registry Run value, collected a fingerprint of the host and communicated through GitHub’s API. It could upload system details, retrieve tasks and use encrypted information in GitHub issue comments as a fallback. GitHub removed infrastructure identified during the investigation.

Backdoor and tunnels support deeper accessThe loader decrypted ShelbyC2 V2, a backdoor capable of receiving operator commands. A component named PsProxy.dll executed commands through the PowerShell engine without launching the familiar PowerShell.exe process, helping activity blend past detections based only on process names.

The attackers also staged Blackwood, an in-memory wrapper around the Chisel tunneling utility. It could create encrypted tunnels and a reverse SOCKS proxy, providing a route to systems beyond the initially compromised workstation. In a critical-infrastructure environment, that capability turns one developer endpoint into a potential pivot point for long-term access.

Researchers associated the cluster with Iran through infrastructure, victim selection and an operational mistake: metadata in an audio file referenced an Iranian music site. Related credential-harvesting infrastructure also targeted an Israeli entity during May and June 2026.

Detection and prevention prioritiesOrganizations should treat unsolicited coding exercises as executable content. Candidates can verify recruiters through independent corporate channels and open unfamiliar projects only in disposable, isolated environments. Security teams should monitor development tools as closely as office documents and browsers.

Alert on unusual msbuild.exe activity and projects that launch processes during evaluation.

Investigate signed binaries loading unknown DLLs from user-writable directories.

Monitor changes to .NET configuration files and attempts to disable ETW.

Review GitHub API traffic that does not match normal repository workflows.

Isolate suspected hosts, rotate exposed credentials and examine lateral-movement paths.

The campaign succeeds by making each step look familiar: a job application, a coding task, Visual Studio components and GitHub traffic. Defenders need to evaluate the complete sequence rather than trusting any one legitimate-looking element. For engineering teams operating around sensitive infrastructure, project files from outside the organization warrant the same caution as macros, scripts and unsigned executables.

Nel giorno in cui Enrico Gabrielli (Calibro 35 etc.) pubblica "La milleundecima notte", un’opera ambientata durante la Seconda guerra del Golfo. Senza sovranità, gli Stati uniti lasciano l’ #Iraq ridotto a una colonia | il manifesto https://ilmanifesto.it/senza-sovranita-gli-stati-uniti-lasciano-liraq-ridotto-a-una-colonia

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#USA

Nel giorno in Enrico Gabrielli (Calibro 35 etc.) pubblica "La milleundecima notte", un’opera ambientata durante la Seconda guerra del Golfo. Senza sovranità, gli Stati uniti lasciano l’ #Iraq ridotto a una colonia | il manifesto https://ilmanifesto.it/senza-sovranita-gli-stati-uniti-lasciano-liraq-ridotto-a-una-colonia

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#USA

Nel giorno in Enrico Gabrielli (Calibro 35 etc.) pubblica un’opera ambientata durante la Seconda guerra del Golfo. Senza sovranità, gli Stati uniti lasciano l’ #Iraq ridotto a una colonia | il manifesto https://ilmanifesto.it/senza-sovranita-gli-stati-uniti-lasciano-liraq-ridotto-a-una-colonia

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#USA

I bought a DVD player from this gentleman a few years ago. It was used, blue- the exact blue of the gate to his shop. It still works perfectly. A few days ago, I sat down and watched Twilight on it again, which feels like an unnecessarily long story for a second-hand DVD player, but somehow it has become part of mine.

A few shops before him is another gentleman who sells DVDs, illegally produced, though I have never been particularly troubled by the technicalities.

I buy them even when I have no particular desire to watch them, because by now he expects at least one DVD from me whenever I pass his shop.

And I always buy one.

Gladly.

Over the years, I have accumulated an entire shelf of them. Most remain unwatched, quietly waiting for a future version of me who will apparently have far more free time than I do now. But I like seeing them there. They remind me of the street, of these small shops, and of the people who have slowly become part of its landscape without ever intending to.

The gentleman with the DVDs has no idea how much I value that little ritual.

He smiles whenever he sees me approaching, already knowing that I will stop.

And perhaps he does not know that, sometimes, a person’s smile can become worth more than everything they have to sell.

His is.

#baghdad #iraq #streetphotography

There is a little corner of Al-Rasheed Street where two old friends have been keeping watch over the world for more than thirty years.

One repairs watches, the other repairs glasses- their real business has always been keeping the rest of us oriented.

Every time I walk down that street and step through their doors, I am greeted with the same enormous smiles and invitations for tea.

It hardly matters what kind of day I am having. The moment I see them, something in me softens and perhaps that is one of the reasons I keep returning.

You come looking for a book, an old watch, a pair of glasses, some forgotten object from another decade- and instead you find people.

People who have been here long enough to become part of the landscape. People whose faces you begin to associate with the place itself.

For me, these two gentlemen are part of the memory of this street. And whenever I see them, with their familiar smiles and their inevitable invitation for tea, Al-Rasheed feels a little more like home.

I apologize for the man behind minding his business with his sandwich. I couldn’t miss that shot.

#streetphotography #baghdad #iraq

This stylish gentleman asked me to take a picture of him with a peace sign.

How can I say no?

He also wanted to know what I thought of his fit, immediate 10/10!

My camera did something funny with the colors but I don’t mind the results.

#streetphotography #portraitphotography

#baghdad #iraq

Baghdadi men and cats.

These gentlemen men spend their days at Al-Mutanabi and Al-Rasheed Streets. These are the kind of men who can turn a simple conversation into an argument about politics, literature, history or whatever else Baghdad has given them to disagree about.

Here to honor their lives, their hobbies, their jobs, their intellect and their smiles.

#baghdad #iraq #streetphotography

1500 anni fa, ci lasciava Teodorico. Due grandi novità per festeggiarloIl 30 agosto del 526 moriva Teodorico, esattamente 1500 anni fa.

Il suo grande regno, che pareva destinato a dominare l’Occidente per secoli a venire, gli sopravvisse non più di trent’anni: nel 553 moriva Teia, il suo ultimo successore.

Eppure, se la morte del Re e del Regno segnarono più o meno la fine dell’influenza di Teodorico sulla storia dell’Italia e dell’Occidente – sempre più dominati dai Franchi – lo stesso non può dirsi in cultura e nel mito.

Perché Teodorico era morto, ma il suo mito no.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/60EjfA8KYa7ihWlmuzNrNx?si=36a908bba1a442b6

Nuovo podcast “Teodorico, il primo re”Ho raccolto sette delle puntate storiche di Storia d’Italia (rimasterizzate, e con una nuova intro e outro) in modo da creare un nuovo podcast “tematico” come fatto per l’ascesa dell’Islam.

Può essere un’occasione per rinfrescare le conoscenze a proposito di Teodorico, dalle sue origine balcaniche ai suoi sogni di pace e dominio dell’Occidente.

Le puntate sono:

Introduzione

Ep 1: le avventure del giovane Teodorico

Ep 2: il ritorno del Re

Ep 3: la corona ferrea

Ep 4: Semper Augustus

Ep 4: battaglia per la Gallia

Ep 6: il crepuscolo di Teodorico

Ep 7: Imperatore dei Goti, re dei Romani

Ep 8 (inedito): il mito di Teodorico

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US Visa of Biden-awarded Iraqi National Revoked

The United States officially revoked the US visa of Taif Sami Mohammed Al Shakarchi, the Iraqi national who was awarded by the failed Biden Administration in 2022, according to US State Department citing her placement on the Terror Watchlist of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

In a New York Post report, Taif Sami Mohammed Al Shakarchi’s alleged links to the Islamic terrorist regime of Iran and Iran-backed militias in Iraq drew headlines. She was also the target of two Republicans in the US House of Representatives accused of being the “key enabler of terrorist funding in Iraq.”

To put things in perspective, posted below is the entire statement of the US State Department. Some parts in boldface…

The U.S. Department of State has revoked the visa of an Iraqi national who was presented an award by the Biden Administration for her purported role in fighting corruption and her advocacy for “gender equity.”

Taif Sami Mohammed Al Shakarchi was given the International Woman of Courage Award in 2022 by former Secretary of State (Antony Blinken) and former First Lady Jill Biden.

The award recognized “women from around the globe who have demonstrated exceptional courage, strength, and leadership in advocating for peace, justice, human rights, gender equity and equality, and the empowerment of women and girls, in all their diversity.”

This Iraqi national’s visa has now been revoked by the State Department following her placement on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Terror Watchlist. She is no longer present in the United States.

Under President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, suspected terrorists will never be allowed to remain in the United States.

Let me end this piece by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this development? Are you aware that Taif Sami Mohammed Al Shakarchi was Iraq’s Finance Minister from 2022 to 2026? Do you suspect Taif Sami Mohammed Al Shakarchi may have been involved in financing connected with Islamic terrorists? Should all her communications and interactions with the Islamic terrorist regime of Iran be investigated?

You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.

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Nations that, in courting reprieve from #Tehran, continue to replenish the very regime from which they seek protection — and now exceed the limits of #America ’s tolerance. #bessent #usa #trump #economic #dday

I think this statement refers more to #UAE #Oman and #Iraq than to #china so while china buys almost 90% of iran oil, it's the neighbouring gulf countries that do the money laundering and appease #iran in order not to get on iran's target list

https://archive.is/iS1RP#selection-1941.58-1941.227

“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” ― Anne Frank

#history #books #reading #photography #photo #fruit #uk #media #art #iraq