Tag: national security
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The Register: SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/secret_service_sim_bust/ Source: The Register Title: SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC Feedly Summary: Secret Service seizes 300-server network allegedly tied to nation-state hackers The US Secret Service has dismantled a network of SIM farms in and around New York City it claims was behind multiple incidents…
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The Register: Suspected Iran-backed attackers targeting European aerospace sector with novel malware
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/iran_targeting_european_aerospace/ Source: The Register Title: Suspected Iran-backed attackers targeting European aerospace sector with novel malware Feedly Summary: Instead of job offers, victims get MiniJunk backdoor and MiniBrowse stealer Suspected Iranian government-backed online attackers have expanded their European cyber ops with fake job portals and new malware targeting organizations in the defense, manufacturing, telecommunications,…
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The Register: Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/cisa_ivanti_bugs_exploited/ Source: The Register Title: Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says Feedly Summary: Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US…
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The Register: China’s DeepSeek applying trial-and-error learning to its AI ‘reasoning’
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/chinas_deepseek_ai_reasoning_research/ Source: The Register Title: China’s DeepSeek applying trial-and-error learning to its AI ‘reasoning’ Feedly Summary: Model can also explain its answers, researchers find Chinese AI company DeepSeek has shown it can improve the reasoning of its LLM DeepSeek-R1 through trial-and-error based reinforcement learning, and even be made to explain its reasoning on…
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The Register: Scale AI says ‘tanks a lot’ to Pentagon for data-classifying deal
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/dod_scale_ai_deal/ Source: The Register Title: Scale AI says ‘tanks a lot’ to Pentagon for data-classifying deal Feedly Summary: First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong? Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret…
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Wired: A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-data-hub-exposed-sensitive-intel-to-thousands-of-unauthorized-users/ Source: Wired Title: A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users Feedly Summary: A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a…
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Wired: Security News This Week: Jeffrey Epstein’s Yahoo Inbox Revealed
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epsteins-yahoo-inbox-revealed/ Source: Wired Title: Security News This Week: Jeffrey Epstein’s Yahoo Inbox Revealed Feedly Summary: Plus: ICE deploys secretive phone surveillance tech, officials warn of Chinese surveillance tools in US highway infrastructure, and more. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the deployment of secretive phone surveillance technology by ICE and…
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The Register: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/google_cloud_mod_contract/ Source: The Register Title: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services Feedly Summary: Deal promises sovereign datacenters, AI, and cybersecurity to strengthen communication links with US The UK’s Ministry of Defence has signed a £400 million ($540 million) contract with Google sovereign cloud to support security and analytics workloads.……
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The Register: Beijing went to ‘EggStreme’ lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/eggstreme_malware_china_philippines/ Source: The Register Title: Beijing went to ‘EggStreme’ lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say Feedly Summary: Ovoid-themed in-memory malware offers a menu for mayhem ‘EggStreme’ framework looks like the sort of thing Beijing would find handy in its ongoing territorial beefs Infosec outfit Bitdefender says it’s spotted a strain of in-memory…