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US Department of Justice
Mission to smuggle $170 million worth of AI tech to China collapsed for three men

Three individuals, Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly, and Tommy Shad English, have been charged with conspiracy to commit smuggling and export control violations after allegedly …

Signal app
Russian hackers go after high-value targets through Signal

Russian intelligence-linked hackers are targeting commercial messaging platforms, with Signal a primary focus, the FBI and CISA warn. The campaign is aimed at individuals of …

Apple iOS
DarkSword: Researchers uncover another iOS exploit kit

A powerful iPhone hacking toolkit dubbed “DarkSword” has been used since November 2025 to compromise devices by exploiting zero-day iOS vulnerabilities, Google …

North Korea
Elite members of North Korean society fake their way into Western paychecks

Increased federal activity, including indictments over the past year, has drawn attention to a pattern that has been unfolding inside corporate hiring pipelines. North Korean …

door
Iran-linked APT targets US critical sectors with new backdoors

An Iran-linked hacking group has been active inside the networks of several US organizations since early February, raising concerns that the activity could precede broader …

Apple
Coruna: Spy-grade iOS exploit kit powering financial crime

A powerful iOS exploit kit has circulated among multiple threat actors over the past year, moving from a commercial surveillance operation to state-linked espionage campaigns …

US Department of Justice
Ex-L3Harris executive sentenced to 87 months for selling stolen cyber-exploit trade secrets

Peter Williams, a former executive of Trenchant, L3Harris’ cyber division, has been sentenced to 87 months in prison by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., after pleading …

US Department of Justice
Ex-Google engineers charged with orchestrating high-tech secrets extraction

A federal grand jury has indicted three Silicon Valley engineers on charges in a scheme to steal trade secrets from Google and other leading technology companies. The …

zero trust
China-linked hackers exploited Dell zero-day since 2024 (CVE-2026-22769)

A suspected China-linked cyberespionage group has been covertly exploiting a critical zero-day flaw (CVE-2026-22769) in Dell’s RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines software since …

Notepad++
Notepad++ secures update channel in wake of supply chain compromise

Notepad++, the popular text and source code editor for Windows whose update mechanism was hijacked last year, has been updated to prevent similar attacks in the future. …

door
Singapore telcos breached in China-linked cyber espionage campaign

Singapore’s four major telecommunications companies were hit by a coordinated cyber espionage campaign last year, the country’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) has revealed. …

Signal app
State-backed phishing attacks targeting military officials and journalists on Signal

German security authorities are warning that a likely state-backed hacking group is engaged in attempts at phishing senior political figures, military officials, diplomats, …

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