This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It’s Opening Again

The fortunes of a remote tungsten pit have risen and fallen through more than a century of conflicts. The critical mineral could now be a deterrent.

bloomberg.com

Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild

A powerful iPhone-hacking technique known as DarkSword has been discovered in use by Russian hackers. It can take over devices running iOS 18 that simply visit infected websites.

wired.com

How cybersecurity can successfully navigate geopolitics

Cybersecurity has become a cornerstone of international relations, business resilience, and public trust and when developed effectively, it plays a vital role in building a secure and resilient digita...

weforum.org

Trump suggests US used cyberattacks to turn off lights in Venezuela during strikes

U.S. Cyber Command was involved in setting the stage for the operation.

politico.com

Exclusive: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips

In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built a prototype of a machine capable of producing cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and...

reuters.com

Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps

Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.

therecord.media

Same Sea, New Phish: Russian Government-Linked Social Engineering Targets App-Specific Passwords - The Citizen Lab

Keir Giles, a prominent expert on Russia, was targeted with a new form of social-engineering attack that leverages App-Specific Passwords. Google links the operation to UNC6293, a Russian state-backed...

citizenlab.ca

Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad

Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions in Czechia, and an attempted coup d’etat in ...

theins.press

Frontline report: Baltic seabed shows growing scars from Russia’s hybrid sabotage - Euromaidan Press

A sanctioned Russian-linked vessel operating under an Antiguan flag was detected maneuvering near a 600-megawatt undersea power line connecting Poland and Sweden, prompting immediate Polish military i...

euromaidanpress.com

Mysterious hacking group Careto was run by the Spanish government, sources say | TechCrunch

The elusive hacking group Careto was never publicly linked to a specific government, but TechCrunch has learned researchers concluded privately that the Spanish government was behind the group.

techcrunch.com

Pocket, One of the Only Apps I Ever Liked, Is Shutting Down

Pocket, the app for saving articles to read later, announced it is shutting down on July 8.

404media.co

TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreesen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more

I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial findings, details about an up...

micahflee.com

A Russia-NATO War Would Look Nothing Like Ukraine

Moscow will seek to avoid a full-on war and focus on breaking the bloc’s resolve.

foreignpolicy.com