Lord of the Flies: An Open-Source Investigation into Saud al-Qahtani

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Investigation links a Gmail, a royal-court email and a phone number to a verified Twitter account, ties the Nokia-team Hack Forums account to that Gmail, and documents purchase attempts from Hacking Team and NSO/Pegasus. Analysis finds roughly 24 hacking tools and services (Blackshades among them), a Twitter-account-manager and botnet infrastructure, a set of 22 domains with PII, a subdomain hosting hundreds of Canadian SMS logs, and domain renewals suggesting continued control.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:44Genesis of the Report
3. 12:36Targeting Social Media 1/2
4. 19:53Post-Report Developments 3/4

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