Sabotage as a service. Iran is recruiting spies and potential saboteurs through Telegram, and Russia is doing the same. Both services pay ordinary people for specific tasks, because maintaining classical agent networks is too expensive and too easy to dismantle. inews.co.uk/news/iran-hi...
More spyware fallout in Italy 🇮🇹 following WhatsApp & Apple notifications & @citizenlab.ca investigations
Prosecutors' team confirms journalist @fcancellato.bsky.social's phone hacked with Paragon spyware
@lorenzofb.bsky.social with details; stay tuned for more
techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/i...
BBC Verify live page graphic showing (left) the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, seen by satellite, from Sentinel-2, Copernicus, on 27 February; (right) a map of the Middle East with Crete, Israel and Iran marked, as well as the location of the Ford.
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A long first week of the Iran conflict and a team effort by BBC Verify to supply news outlets.
Here's my contribution explained with how-to examples.
First, 24 hours' wait, we finally saw the USS Gerald R Ford after it left Crete. My piece with Barbara Metzler:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
@pivotcon.bsky.social gets better every year...congratulations to all the speakers! 🎉
On the one hand, this is massively dystopian, foretelling an end to all of our livelihoods. But on the other (more important) hand, I could not have invented a better anecdote to illustrate my book’s thesis.
#ESETresearch has analyzed the resurgence of Sednit – one of the most long‑running Russia‑aligned APT groups – now using a modern toolkit built around paired implants, BeardShell and Covenant, each using a different cloud provider for resilience. www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-rese... 1/5
Thread, on those RU attacks targeting Signal, as reported by the Dutch intel services
english.aivd.nl/latest/news/...
BREAKING: powerful iPhone hacking tools used by Chinese criminals originated from US defense giant L3 Harris.
Their zero-click exploits went to Russian spies too.
Unbelievable harm to our collective security.
Scoop: @lorenzofb.bsky.social, here's why it matters 1/
techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/a...
A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine & China used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris. Intended for Western spies, the tools "wound up in the hands of various hacking groups, including Russian govt spooks & Chinese cybercriminals."
move slow and repair things
New from Bellingcat - Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Reverse-engineered Coruna - a nation-state iOS exploit kit - from raw JavaScript. 28 modules + MUCH MORE!
www.nadsec.online/blog/coruna
www.nadsec.online/blog/coruna-...
(technical analysis more interesting, read coruna blog post first, technical analysis looks better on github, link on-site)
NEW, from me: A secret chapter of Cold War history, told here for the first time. A deep cover Soviet Bloc spy living in America as the Berlin Wall fell. The shocking moves by a European intel chief. And the incredible CI chess games by FBI and CIA counterspies.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."
I expect we'll see a lot of this coming from the US administration
Iran's Fars News Agency confirmed that the country's military intentionally targeted AWS data centers in the region to see if they played a role in supporting the US military's attacks.
Strikes hit AWS data centers in Bahrain and the UAE, and a Microsoft data center
t.me/farsna/41529...
Starting to see Nordic countries detaining and boarding more shadow fleet ships. There has been a hard to understand hesitancy to do this www.dn.se/direkt/2026-...
Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.
Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.
www.wired.com/story/from-u...
That Iranian Navy ship we torpedoed had no ammunition on board because that was a requirement to participate in the MILAN 2026 exercise (organized by the Indian Navy).
The US Navy knew this because IT ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE EXERCISE. What a national embarrassment.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
Fascinating on the critical minerals consumed in US weapons in the past week and the time it will take to replenish those. Gallium is a particular concern.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
I absolutely beg people not to take the IDF’s word that it hit IRGC-CEC HQ as a datapoint that is detailed or reliable enough to support any assessments about a meaningful reduction in Iran’s cyber capacity.
Neither the IRGC nor the MOIS has their actual CNO operators centralized in tidy locations.
"Planetary warming has significantly accelerated over the past 10 years, with temperatures rising at a higher rate since 2015 than in any previous decade on record, a new study showed." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NSO Group has been sanctioned by the US because of abuses connected to its Pegasus spyware
Of course it's furiously lobbying to get off of those lists, in order to open up the lucrative 🇺🇸 defence and intelligence contract opportunities
@vaspanagiotopoulos.com describes those efforts in detail 👇
No "stupid rules of engagement" -- like, you know, the Geneva Convention.
It's clear where the 🇺🇸 stands on international law.
Question for Canadians 🇨🇦: what's our position?
The danger of misinformation lies "...in its capacity to undermine...confidence in science, the legitimacy of elections, and shared historical narratives...[S]ystemic risk analysis...helps clarify why misinformation should be understood as a structural condition..." See following link 👇🏼
“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”
Those 100 or so children that were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Iran. They all had names. They had parents, siblings and perhaps pets. They had best friends. They had dreams, frustrations and anxieties. They had moments of utter happiness. And each of them was someone else's everything.
if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.
Scoop: Rubio has ordered US diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives worldwide
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
