Intelligence

Iran-linked hackers target Kurdish and Iraqi officials in long-running cyberespionage campaign (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)

A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to Iran has been targeting Kurdish and Iraqi government officials in a years-long cyber espionage campaign, according to...

Microsoft makes a ‘proactive investment’ in EU cybersecurity amid bloc’s tensions with US (Alexander Martin – The Record)

Microsoft announced on Wednesday it was launching a new European Security Program that would involve the company providing free “AI-based” threat intelligence to European...

FBI: Play ransomware gang has attacked 600 organizations since 2023 (Jonathan Greig – The Record)

More than 900 organizations have been hit by cyberattacks from the Play ransomware gang since it emerged in 2022, making it one of the...

New evidence links long-running hacking group to Indian government (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)

Researchers say they have uncovered new evidence linking a long-running threat actor known as Bitter to the Indian government. The group has been involved...

A Digitized, Efficient Model of War (Rupert Barrett-Taylor, Gavin Wilde – Carnegie Endowment

Battlefields from Ukraine to Gaza have recently been marked, as have many conflicts over the last two decades, by the extensive use of airborne...

BidenCash darknet forum taken down by US, Dutch law enforcement (Jonathan Greig – The Record)

Nearly 145 domains associated with the BidenCash cybercriminal marketplace were taken down on Wednesday in a law enforcement operation led by U.S. and Dutch...

Ukraine’s military intelligence claims cyberattack on Russian strategic bomber maker (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)

Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) said it hacked into the internal systems of Russia’s major state-owned aircraft manufacturer Tupolev, days after Ukraine launched surprise...

Tackling the Proliferation of Cyber Intrusion Capabilities (Alexandra Paulus – Lawfare)

Cyber intrusion capabilities have long been used to facilitate human rights abuses—like surveilling members of parliament, spying on opposition politicians, or tracking dissidents, journalists,...

International operation takes down crypting sites used for testing malware (Jonathan Greig – The Record)

Multiple sites used to test malware against real antivirus tools were taken down by law enforcement in the U.S. and Netherlands last week. According...

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