Channel
@sitreports
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23,148subscribers
-42 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 10,000–31,623.
| Telegram ID | -1001426514777 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @sitreports |
| Description | AI, technology, mass surveillance, and intelligence — everything you need to know about tomorrow. |
| Created | 11 October 2022 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 13 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 13 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/sitreports |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026, 05:56 | 23,148 | -5 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 08:33 | 23,153 | -10 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 08:23 | 23,163 | -4 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 12:32 | 23,167 | -7 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 10:52 | 23,174 | -5 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 11:31 | 23,179 | -8 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 14:01 | 23,187 | -3 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 10:01 | 23,190 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:58 | 23,190 | first reading |
82 posts held, back to 4 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 18 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 13 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 82 (4 August 2026 – 13 August 2026) |
| Views total | 31,861 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 13 Aug 2026, 12:11 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 13 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
🔍 Plug and Pwn turns Windows device install paths into SYSTEM access Researchers at DEF CON 34 detailed Plug and Pwn, a technique that abuses Windows Plug and Play to trigger signed vendor package installs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Using emulated USB devices, they demonstrated zero-click local chains on updated Windows 11 and an RDP-based variant that sends fake USB descriptors when USB redirection is enabled. The ke…
🔍 ShieldBreak claims Windows Defender patch bypass for SYSTEM access Researcher Nightmare-Eclipse has released ShieldBreak, a local privilege-escalation exploit that reportedly bypasses Microsoft’s July fix for RoguePlanet, CVE-2026-50656. The technique is described as reusing the same race condition in Defender’s Malware Protection Engine, combining rogue cloud-provider registration, CLFS log manipulation, and obje…
🔍 ShieldBreak bypass restores SYSTEM-level escalation on patched Windows Researcher Nightmare Eclipse published ShieldBreak, a new local privilege-escalation exploit targeting Microsoft Defender. The PoC is described as working on fully patched Windows 11 25H2, Canary builds, and Windows Server 2025, with Windows 10 and related server editions also stated to be vulnerable. Kevin Beaumont said he verified the exploit…
📡 Taiwan says it was targeted last month in AI-driven hacking campaign Taiwan says government agencies were targeted last month in an AI-assisted hacking campaign from overseas, with the incident disclosed by the Ministry of Digital Affairs. Authorities stated the affected bodies handled the intrusion attempt. The key signal is not only network access activity but the operational use of AI to scale or refine cyber …
🤖 'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency was reportedly targeted in an incident involving “near-autonomous” AI agents, as outlined in Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency. The headline indicates machine-driven offensive behavior rather than a conventional manually operated intrusion. Operationally, this points to a growing cyber threat where agentic tools can acce…
🔍 AI agents used in autonomous intrusion targeting Taiwan Dream says a China-linked operation used up to eight autonomous agents over four days in early July to breach a government network in Taiwan, map 21 systems, compromise at least 85 accounts, and extract more than 2,500 personnel records. The toolkit, built on open-source frameworks Hermes and OpenClaw, also reportedly expanded to a nuclear safety agency and s…
🔍 Lazarus Uses Windows Zero-Day for SYSTEM-Level Compromise North Korea-linked Lazarus has been linked to exploitation of a Windows zero-day to escalate privileges to SYSTEM and deploy a backdoor, as outlined in Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor. The activity combines local privilege escalation with follow-on persistence, moving an initial foothold into full host-level contr…
🔍 U.S. Army drone trials at Fort Irwin exposed payload and endurance trade-offs At Project Convergence Capstone 6, 4th Infantry Division soldiers tested FPV and loitering systems including Neros Archer, Anduril Bolt-M, and Teledyne Rogue 1. Troops reported better reconnaissance and stand-off targeting, but also shorter real-world flight times, heavy battery loads, overheating in the heat, and connectivity losses ove…
📡 MDA opens path for mobile hypersonic-tracking radar The Missile Defense Agency has issued a presolicitation for FBM Radar Next, a forward-based mobile land radar designed to detect and track hypersonic, ballistic, cruise, and other advanced airborne threats. The FBM Radar Next effort stresses rapid deployment, remote operation, C-17 transportability, operation in contested electromagnetic environments, and a clear…
📡 DeadLock moves extortion infrastructure onto Polygon DeadLock ransomware is using Polygon smart contracts as part of its extortion setup, shifting key infrastructure onto blockchain-based components that are harder to seize or disable. The reported use of Polygon smart contracts marks a technical adaptation in how the group maintains persistence for victim-facing operations. Operationally, this raises the disrupt…
🔍 Iran-linked activity expands across US water utilities Iran-linked hackers targeted water systems in New Jersey and Alabama on July 27, pushing the confirmed spread to at least 12 US states since late July. Reported incidents affected operational technology and PLC-connected control environments, including systems using Rockwell Automation equipment. Utilities reported limited disruption, no confirmed impact on dr…
🔍 US agencies flag Gunra activity against critical infrastructure US and South Korean agencies say Gunra ransomware affiliates are exploiting Fortinet flaws CVE-2024-55591 and CVE-2025-24472 on internet-facing FortiOS and FortiProxy systems to gain admin access, steal data, and encrypt networks. The Gunra advisory identifies the group as a ransomware-as-a-service operation active since 2025, with victims across heal…
Showing the 12 most recent of 82 posts we hold for @sitreports. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank — 734,127 of 1,183,361entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Named by 2 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 5 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 13 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“SITREP - Independent OSINT Channel” (@sitreports), 23,148 subscribers as measured 13 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/sitreports.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.