Valentin Chรขtelet 's Avatar

Valentin Chรขtelet

@vchatelet

Research Associate, Security @DFRLab Uralistics afficionado ๐Ÿ”† & GIS engineer ๐ŸŒ

657
Followers
354
Following
17
Posts
13.09.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Valentin Chรขtelet @vchatelet

Post image

Google has a main problem now as once benign API keys to work with Maps and Firebase now also allow Gemini access and can expose a whole lot of user data they didn't previously had access to

Almost 3k of these are exposed online

trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-...

01.03.2026 13:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 23 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Preview
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

21.02.2026 02:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 3778 ๐Ÿ” 1519 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58 ๐Ÿ“Œ 143

Nailed it.

20.02.2026 03:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 8610 ๐Ÿ” 2498 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 334 ๐Ÿ“Œ 119

OTD in 1921 Soviet invasion of Georgia began. Less than a year before we signed a treaty with them promising we'd never invade.

Lying we won't & then invading anyway is a tradition I maintain to this day.

15.02.2026 13:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 778 ๐Ÿ” 191 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
A photo shows Gisรจle Pelicot  with the headline: The Woman at the Center of the French Rape Trial That Shocked the World

A photo shows Gisรจle Pelicot with the headline: The Woman at the Center of the French Rape Trial That Shocked the World

Gisรจle Pelicot was drugged and raped repeatedly by her husband, Dominique Pelicot โ€” who also invited dozens of men into their bedroom to rape Pelicot.

In a candid and emotional interview, Pelicot opened up about the trial that shocked the world. nyti.ms/4rR0DfF

15.02.2026 17:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 145 ๐Ÿ” 32 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Video thumbnail

A big turnout on day 444 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia.

๐ŸŽฅ Levan Zazadze

14.02.2026 17:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 208 ๐Ÿ” 77 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
Video thumbnail

โ—๏ธZelenskyy: "A great mistake is to allow an aggressor to take anything. I do not want to be the president who repeats the same mistakes."

"This was a great mistake right at the beginning, from 2014. I can even say it was earlier โ€” when they attacked and occupied part of Georgia,

15.02.2026 15:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 324 ๐Ÿ” 97 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

oh ffs people just use Signal like @evacide.bsky.social says

02.02.2026 15:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

A Norwegian home owner was tricked into installing highly advanced surveillance cameras pointed at Northern Europe's only LNG-plant, Melkรธya.

The cameras have been running 24/7 and sent data to an Italian company now under investigatin. Cameras include advanced thermal sensors.

31.01.2026 09:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 226 ๐Ÿ” 76 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Iโ€™d like to meet that guy whose job is to bookmark everything I post or reply and to forward it to the regime propaganda media.

๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿป

29.01.2026 23:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 61 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Near 2 Million, Study Finds

'A new study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies says that nearly 1.2 million Russian troops and close to 600,000 Ukrainian troops had been killed or wounded or were missing.' www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u... (gift article)

27.01.2026 20:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

One of the most interesting articles I worked on in 2023!

31.01.2026 00:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
The Pravda Network with Valentin Chatelet - The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast This week, Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson welcome Valentin Chatelet, a research associate at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, for an urgent discussion of the Pravda Network--a Russia...

๐Ÿšจ The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned the AEZA Group. Listen to my podcast with Active Measures where I discuss Russia's collaboration with cybercriminal groups and their role in influence operations. AEZA is linked to Op. Doppelgรคnger & Blacksprut, a major dark web marketplace omny.fm/shows/active...

01.07.2025 16:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
The Pravda Network with Valentin Chatelet - The Active Measures Newsletter Podcast This week, Jim Ludes and Mark Jacobson welcome Valentin Chatelet, a research associate at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, for an urgent discussion of the Pravda Network--a Russia...

In this week's episode of the Active Measure Newsletter's podcast I was invited to discuss the content of our joint investigation with @dfrlab.bsky.social and @checkfirst.network on the Pravda Network and the consequences of the poisoning of LLMs & the targeting of Wikipedia
omny.fm/shows/active...

30.06.2025 13:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photo of a shipping container which concealed the Ukrainian attack drones in a false roof.

A photo of a shipping container which concealed the Ukrainian attack drones in a false roof.

Last year, Russia imported 5.4 MILLION shipping containers.

After todayโ€™s historic attack, every single one is a potential weapon that Putin is terrified of.

Not only has Ukraine neutered Russiaโ€™s long-range air capability today, but they just crippled its supply chain & economy.

Utter genius.

01.06.2025 15:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 532 ๐Ÿ” 109 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16 ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
Post image

๐Ÿ’ฅ๐ŸŽ™๏ธIn a leaked audio, Viktor Orbรกn's defense minister says Hungary's army is being reshaped โ€œto break with the peace mentality and move toward phase zero of the road leading to war.โ€

It's unlikely he means a war against Russia โ€” he was a business partner of Russia's Transmashholding.

๐Ÿ‘‡Thread.๐Ÿ‘‡

08.05.2025 08:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 252 ๐Ÿ” 98 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14 ๐Ÿ“Œ 29
Preview
How Dare You Transmit at 1.4 GHz! It was launched to measure moisture. Now itโ€™s ghost-trailing jammers across an electronic battlefield.

How Dare You Transmit at 1.4 GHz!
A NASA satellite built to measure soil moisture just mapped out electronic warfare across UA and western RU. Using open data, we visualized high-powered jamming and spoofing activity at 1.4 GHz radioandnukes.substack.com/p/how-dare-y...

07.05.2025 14:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 179 ๐Ÿ” 44 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Preview
Google and Meta's vast estimated UK earnings revealed Google and Meta advertising market share for 2024: US tech giants made around ยฃ25.4bn in UK alone last year.

"Google and Meta accounted for at least half the record ยฃ42.6bn spent on UK advertising last year, according to Press Gazette estimates." pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/go...

01.05.2025 10:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Russia's torture of Viktoriia Roshchyna shocks world, but dozens of Ukrainian journalists still in captivity It took several DNA tests to confirm the identity of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was killed in Russian captivity in the fall of 2024. Roshchyna, 27, disappeared in August 2023 while...

At least 30 Ukrainian journalists remain in Russian captivity as of April, IMI reported, with little known about their health conditions or whereabouts. Multiple reports have revealed that Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are tortured and killed while in Russian captivity.

01.05.2025 10:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 353 ๐Ÿ” 176 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
Preview
EPPโ€™s Resolution Calls for Sanctions on Ivanishvili and New Elections - Civil Georgia The European Peopleโ€™s Party (EPP), the largest political group in the European Parliament, adopted a

EPP calls for sanctions on Ivanishvili, non-recognition of GD parliament, and backing Zurabishvili as the only legitimate representative of the Georgian people. It also calls on the GD to set a specific date for new parliamentary elections.

01.05.2025 10:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Pravda in numbers - Content and Network analysis Interactive dashboard visualizing patterns, language distribution, domain connections and more across the Pravda Russian network.

Ever wondered how many โ€œPravdaโ€ articles go live every hour, where they originate or the paths they take?

With @vchatelet.bsky.social we decided to build the first Pravda Dashboard offering realโ€‘time windows into Russiaโ€™s โ€œPortal Kombatโ€ disinformation network

#osint #russia #disinformation

18.04.2025 16:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained a russian spy in Kyiv who was preparing terrorist attacks near defense facilities.

17.04.2025 14:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 49 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Russia expands its strategic footprint in occupied Abkhazia The reopening of the decades-closed Sukhumi Babushara Airport and a test flight from Moscow demonstrate Russiaโ€™s push for control over occupied Abkhazia.

Russiaโ€™s push for control over the occupied Abkhazia is evident in reopening the decades-closed Sukhumi Babushara Airport and a test flight from Moscow.

Read more by my colleagues @sopogelava.bsky.social and @vchatelet.bsky.social:

17.04.2025 13:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

What do #Wikipedia, #LLms, & #X have in common? Theyโ€™ve all been quietly infiltrated by the Pravda networkโ€”a sprawling web of pro-Kremlin sites posing as news outlets. @vchatelet.bsky.social BlueSky explores #PravdaNetwork w/ @checkfirst.network in this week's the Source: bit.ly/3EcgvpZ

11.04.2025 13:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Post image

If the West โ€” the UK ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง in particular โ€” doesnโ€™t act now with targeted sanctions, itโ€™ll be too late to hurt the dictatorship before it cements its rule and fortune.
Time is running out.โŒ›๏ธ

29.03.2025 10:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 45 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Global Kombat The Russian one-stop shop for influence goes global The Pravda Network, initially identified by French disinformation watchdog Viginum, has recently expanded its scope of topics, targeted countriesโ€ฆ

[Hybrid warfare] ๐Ÿงตhey @viginum.bsky.social , here is our take: Global Kombat, the Russian one-stop shop for influence goes global

alleyesonwagner.org/2025/03/25/g...

25.03.2025 22:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Post image

NEW! Two former U.S officials overseeing Ukraine policy raised alarms over the potential shutdown of a vital Yale unit that has played a key role in gathering evidence on russian war crimes in Ukraine, as the program will run out of funding this weekend๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป

kyivpost.com/post/49579

25.03.2025 20:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 41 ๐Ÿ” 18 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Post image

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ชGeorgia is quietly undergoing a dramatic geopolitical shift. Under Georgian Dream and its informal leader Bidzina Ivanishvili, the country is accelerating its alignment with Iran (and China and Russia)โ€”abandoning its Western orientation.
๐ŸงตA thread on why this matters.
1/16

24.03.2025 19:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 177 ๐Ÿ” 72 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Subjugation is exactly the right word @orelb.bsky.social

14.03.2025 14:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 25 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Russia-linked Pravda network cited on Wikipedia, LLMs, and X Pro-Kremlin content pollutes sources on multiple platforms, sparking worries of false claims and sanctioned content reaching global audiences

NEW ๐Ÿšจ The #Pravdanetworkโ€”a Russia-linked disinformation operationโ€”has infiltrated #Wikipedia, AI chatbots, and #X, spreading pro-Kremlin narratives globally.

@vchatelet.bsky.social & @checkfirst.network
reveal the scale of this content pollution: bit.ly/3R6XW9l

13.03.2025 20:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 29 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2