Andrew Thompson
@ImposeCost
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Head of Global Signals Operations @Google Threat Intelligence Group via @Mandiant acquisition. Posts are attributable to me—not my employer. Former @USMC.
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Joined June 2017
I grew up in organizations that taught lowest level problem solving. "Escalation" being seen as reserved for the truly unsolvable. It encourages "small unit leadership." As leaders, if you cultivate "escalation culture," you will find yourself mired in increasingly juvenile
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Today, the US, UK and Australia designated Russian bulletproof hosting provider Media Land LLC for enabling ransomware operations, while OFAC separately sanctioned former Olympian Ryan Wedding's drug trafficking network. Both actions trace millions in crypto transactions. Learn
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Joint sanctions of Russian bulletproof hosting providers enabling ransomware attacks; U.S. targets laundering of drug trafficking network.
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Only 3 in 10 Veterans know about 0% down home loans. Join our mission to help veterans find their way home.
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On my way to @CYBERWARCON. I won't be able to stay late, but I'm looking forward to connecting with everyone.
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ASK YOUR LEADERS WHAT THEY ARE READING AND CONSIDER READING IT. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Frameworks that are too complicated to be adopted are not good. Good frameworks are flexible enough to accommodate some volume of gotchas while not so amorphous that they try to be everything to everyone. I will probably overshoot on this one, but: good frameworks are probably
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Listen and learn the vocabulary of the people you serve and your leaders, and strongly consider appropriately adopting it.
@ImposeCost @KyleTDavis1 mastering stakeholder priorities + vocabulary through lurking in their meetings, an ~immersive~ experience
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In intelligence you go through this arc where you learn the ways you're told to do things are absolute followed by learning that they aren't, and even the same country's various intelligence entities don't even do things exactly the same. How I approach the issue is removing the
@KyleTDavis1 Requirements are such an interesting subject to me. I find people get wrapped around the axel in debates about how to "properly" do them, but "properly" is really just the way they learned. At a fundamental level, you need to appropriately scope what you will produce
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@Underrated_Dom @dom_lucre People are allowed to react in relation to their own circumstances and life
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These records indicate that someone successfully impersonated the FBI in order to get me swatted. I was already aware this had happened but had to wait nearly a year to get the document that proves it. My reports to the Dallas Police Department about this have gone unanswered.
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Today, we introduced Gemini 3, our most intelligent model to date, now available to Google Cloud customers in Gemini Enterprise and Vertex AI. https://t.co/gS1xEWfx8c
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"Youngest Marine at the Marine Corps Ball was born in 2007."
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📣 Everything defenders need to know about UNC1549: a deep dive analysis of suspected Iran-nexus espionage targeting the aerospace, aviation, and defense industries in the Middle East. Dive into the details: https://t.co/N2KBeHdJ7z
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Today is my alive day... it's like a second birthday. #Fallujah #Marines #USMarines #Veteran #CombatVeteran
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@acrognali @henloitsjoyce "Stay strapped or get clapped" is slang meaning: carry a firearm ("strapped") for protection, or risk getting shot ("clapped"). It's often used in contexts of self-defense in dangerous areas.
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@ImposeCost @vxunderground These cyber hands are rated A for adversaries.
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