Money that cannot be spent outside a single video game does not usually draw the attention of a tax authority. Fortnite’s in-game currency did, for a stretch that ran at least from October 2019 to February 12, 2020, when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) listed it on a webpage as a form of reportable virtual … Read more
Two waves, one number Russian forces spent much of 2021 massing near Ukraine’s borders in two separate waves: an initial buildup in March and April that partly withdrew by June, and a second buildup beginning in October that, by December, had placed more than 100,000 troops on three sides of the country, including Belarus to … Read more
A partial copy, with a short note attached The National Security Archive’s Guatemala collection includes a two-part document titled “Campaign plan Firmeza 83-1 and Appendix 1 (Intelligence)” (cataloged in the collection’s Spanish-language index as “Documento 10: Plan de Campaña Firmeza 83-1 y Anexo ‘Uno’ (Inteligencia)”), dated August 1983. The posting describes it as a partial … Read more
Seven Signatures, One Report A file that looks like random noise is not the same thing as random noise. One component in the Infamous Chisel malware framework maintains a running log of every file it has already transmitted: up to 16,384 MD5 hashes, written as raw binary data, stored inside a hidden file named google.index. … Read more
What the File Is The title “ANOTHER UAC-0010 STORY” reads like something filed by a researcher who has written enough of these reports to have a naming convention for them. The document was produced by the Cyber Incidents Response Operational Centre, a sub-unit of Ukraine’s State Cyber Protection Centre (SCPC), published in January 2023 with … Read more
A letter in a Prime Minister’s file Three handwritten pages filed inside a Prime Minister’s Office record, cataloged as PREM 13/2412 at The National Archives, carry a date of June 1968 and signatures collected under a single collective name: “Women Workers at Fords of Dagenham.” The document is addressed to Harold Wilson. The National Archives … Read more
Three Files, One Archive, a Specific Date The paperwork arrived in public view on March 15, 2024, when John Greenewald of The Black Vault published a consolidated document archive covering Saudi nationals who departed the United States in the days following September 11, 2001. Three distinct records constitute the set. The first is a 40-page … Read more
What the Record Actually Is The joint analytical report produced by Ukraine’s Cyber Incidents Response Operational Centre (CIROC, a unit within the State Cyber Protection Centre of Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, abbreviated SSSCIP) and Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team carries a December 2023 publication date. The two … Read more
The Publication The National Security Archive at George Washington University has released English-language volumes of Anatoly Chernyaev’s private diary each May 25 since 2012, choosing that date because it is also Chernyaev’s birthday. On May 25, 2023, the series reached the 1983 volume, translated by Anna Melyakova and described by the Archive as appearing in … Read more
Stuttgart, March 16, 2023 Three items constitute the official documentary record of the Black Sea intercept: a declassified video, a storyboard of still images drawn from the same footage, and a press release. All three were published on March 16, 2023, by U.S. European Command, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. These documents are what the record … Read more