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Episode 124: The Twitter Accounts Pushing French Protests. Also: social engineering the Software Supply Chain

ID: 211d9da2-2731-53a3-828b-77e39b0ac2bb

STIX ID: report--211d9da2-2731-53a3-828b-77e39b0ac2bb

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2018-12-11

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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This podcast episode discusses two security issues: (1) apparent foreign influence operations amplifying France's “Yellow Vest” protests via non-French social media accounts aligned with political ideologies, and (2) a software supply‑chain compromise of the event‑stream GitHub project—an example of attackers using social engineering to insert malicious code into downstream applications such as the CoPay Bitcoin wallet.

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