Three Russian-German Nationals Charged with Espionage for Russian Secret Service

German prosecutors have charged three Russian-German nationals for acting as secret service agents for Russia. The individuals, named Dieter S., Alexander J., and Alex D., have been accused of working for a foreign secret service. Dieter S. is also alleged to have participated in sabotage...

The Invisible Russia-Ukraine Battlefield

In Russia’s war against Ukraine, electronic warfare, including signal-jamming, anti-drone weapons, and innovative protections for critical military systems, has become a key piece of the conflict...

Why the US Military Can't Just Shoot Down the Mystery Drones

Small, easily weaponizable drones have become a feature of battlefields from the Middle East to Ukraine. Now the threat looms over the US homeland—and the Pentagon's ability to respond is limited...

Secret Blizzard Deploys Kazuar Backdoor in Ukraine Using Amadey Malware-as-a-Service

The Russian nation-state actor tracked as Secret Blizzard has been observed leveraging malware associated with other threat actors to deploy a known backdoor called Kazuar on target devices located in Ukraine. The new findings come from the Microsoft threat intelligence team, which said it observ...

Trust Issues in AI

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders. It originally appeared as a response to Evgeny Morozov in Boston Review's forum, "The AI We Deserve." For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: XSS vulnerability found in javascript code of https://███.mil

The XSS vulnerability was found in the JavaScript code of the website https://███.mil. The parameter "code" was not sufficiently sanitized, allowing the injection of malicious code. This vulnerability could have been exploited to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of the affected website...

FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel

The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient...

US and UK Military Social Network “Forces Penpals” Exposes SSN, PII Data

Forces Penpals, a social network for US and UK military personnel, exposed the sensitive data of 1.1M users,…...

Auto-Rebooting iPhones Are Causing Chaos for Cops

Plus: Hot Topic confirms a customer data breach, Germany arrests a US citizen for allegedly passing military secrets to Chinese intelligence, and more...

Tracking World Leaders Using Strava

Way back in 2018, people noticed that you could find secret military bases using data published by the Strava fitness app. Soldiers and other military personal were using them to track their runs, and you could look at the public data and find places where there should be no people running. Six...

The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President

A successful CIA hack of Venezuela's military payroll system, insider fights for spy agency resources, and messy opposition politics: A WIRED investigation reveals a secret Trump-era attempt to oust autocratic ruler Nicolás Maduro...

Russian Malware Attack Targets Ukrainian Military Recruits via Telegram

Russian hackers launched a targeted malware campaign via Telegram, aimed at Ukrainian military recruits. Disguised as recruitment tools,…...

Russian Espionage Group Targets Ukrainian Military with Malware via Telegram

A suspected Russian hybrid espionage and influence operation has been observed delivering a mix of Windows and Android malware to target the Ukrainian military under the Telegram persona Civil Defense. Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG and Mandiant are tracking the activity under the name UNC581...

No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer

The headline is pretty scary: "China's Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption." No, it's not true. This debunking saved me the trouble of writing one. It all seems to have come from this news article, which wasn't bad but was taken widely out of proportion. Cryptography is...

Hacker Advertises “Top Secret US Space Force (USSF) Military Technology Archive”

A hacker known as "TAINTU" is advertising a "Top Secret U.S. Space Force Military Technology Archive" for sale,…...

This Video Game Controller Has Become the US Military’s Weapon of Choice

After decades of relying on buttons, switches, and toggles, the Pentagon has embraced simple, ergonomic video-game-style controllers already familiar to millions of potential recruits...

Russian Cyber Offensive Shifts Focus to Ukraine’s Military Infrastructure

SSSCIP reports a strategic shift in Russian cyber operations in H1 2024. Targeting Ukraine's defence sectors, attacks doubled,…...

AI Pulse: What's new in AI regulations?

Fall is in the air and frameworks for mitigating AI risk are dropping like leaves onto policymakers’ desks. From California’s SB 1047 bill and NIST’s model-testing deal with OpenAI and Anthropic to REAIM’s blueprint for military AI governance, AI regulation is proving to be a hot and complicated...

Ukraine Bans Telegram Use for Government and Military Personnel

Ukraine has restricted the use of the Telegram messaging app by government officials, military personnel, and other defense and critical infrastructure workers, citing national security concerns. The ban was announced by the National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity NCCC in a post shared on...

Chinese Engineer Charged in U.S. for Years-Long Cyber Espionage Targeting NASA and Military

A Chinese national has been indicted in the U.S. on charges of conducting a "multi-year" spear-phishing campaign to obtain unauthorized access to computer software and source code created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, research universities, and private companies. Song...