An IT specialist employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was arrested Thursday and charged with attempting to provide classified information to a friendly foreign government, DOJ announced.
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Meta's "Private Processing" for WhatsApp Al claims privacy, but critics say routing messages through cloud TEEs undermines end-to-end encryption. #privacy
Another reason to adopt safer alternatives like THREEMA & SIGNAL.
🔗 https://engineering.fb.com/2025/04/29/security/whatsapp-private-processing-ai-tools/
Google's Threat Intelligence Group discovered an exploited government website delivering the “TOUGHPROGRESS” malware, which uses Google Calendar for command & control (C2) activities.
They attribute 🇨🇳 APT41 behind the campaign with high confidence.
🔗 https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/apt41-innovative-tactics/
Trend Micro's Joseph C Chen writes about an active threat actor, named Earth Lamia, targeting multiple industries in Brazil, India & Southeast Asian countries since at least 2023. The APT primarily exploits vulnerabilities in web applications for access.
🔗 https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/e/earth-lamia.html
Laundry Bear, a group recently identified by Dutch intelligence and security services, stole work-related contact details on the Netherlands’ national police force in September 2024, Microsoft researchers said.
🔗 https://cyberscoop.com/laundry-bear-void-blizzard-russia-apt/
The Czech Republic has identified China as responsible for a “malicious cyber campaign” targeting an unclassified network at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says the Czech government.
India's alarm over China spying rocks the surveillance industry:
Modi's CCTV testing rules hit firms like Hikvision, Xiaomi & Motorola. They must submit hardware, software & source code to government labs for testing. Documents reveal an intense clash.
A previous CIA station chief in the French capital is under investigation for corruption, while another former agency employee there is embroiled in a very messy divorce. After a series of embarrassing incidents, the Langley agency's historic and strategic Paris office is trying to clean up shop.
The EU's most iconic tech law — the GDPR — was long thought to be untouchable.
Those days are over.
China’s BeiDou has emerged as a formidable alternative to GPS. The system is provided by 56 satellites, which is nearly double the number providing GPS, and has wider and more stable coverage. So what are its consequences in future wars?
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.
🔗 https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/
Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for deep-cover operatives. A team of federal agents from the South American country has been quietly dismantling it.
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/world/americas/russia-brazil-spies-deep-cover.html
Deep-cover spies aren’t in trench coats—they’re at your café, your coworker, your neighbor. They build lives, not just legends. Putin’s playing the long game, and the West better catch up fast.
The messages offer a glimpse at life deep undercover.
Mostly, it seems, the texts portray two 🇷🇺 spies who needed to vent their frustrations. How much contact they had with people who knew their true identities is unclear.
🔗https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/world/europe/text-messages-between-russian-spies-annotated.html
Experts tell #CyberScoop that the U.S. telecom system is just too technologically fragmented to gather a clear picture of threats, and too big to ever fully eject all espionage efforts.
🔗 https://cyberscoop.com/salt-typhoon-chinese-hackers-us-telecom-breach/
🚨 North Korea's cyber ops aren't just hackers—they're IT contractors infiltrating our workforce to fund WMDs. DTEX exposes DPRK's mafia-style cyber syndicate using AI, fake IDs & global access.
Read the blog 🔗 https://www.dtexsystems.com/blog/exposing-dprks-cyber-underworld/
Japan on Friday enacted a new law that would permit the country’s authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations to ensure threats are suppressed before they cause significant damage.
The #FBI said Thursday that malicious actors have been impersonating senior U.S. government officials in a text & voice messaging campaign, using AI-generated audio & #phishing texts to trick other government officials into giving up access to their personal accounts.
🔗 https://cyberscoop.com/fbi-warns-of-ai-deepfake-phishing-impersonating-government-officials/
Trump and DOGE are not just undoing decades of privacy measures: They appear to be ignoring that they were ever written.
Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel on the rise of an American panopticon:
Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar inverters. Undocumented cellular radios also found in Chinese batteries which could be turned on remotely to destabilize energy grids, potentially leading to massive blackouts like the recent one in Spain.
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