CYBER WARS

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Risk highlighted as Chinese hackers hit Microsoft
Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)
While such cyberattacks are not new, the scale of the onslaught and the speed with which the hackers took advantage of freshly discovered vulnerabilities is fue...
China warns public workers against 'showing off' state secrets online
Jul 24, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing has ramped up espionage warnings in recent years as ties with the United States and other Western nations have cooled. Its Ministry of State Security (M...
Chinese state hackers targeting Microsoft customers
Jul 22, 2025 (AFP)
Microsoft said it has observed three threat groups -- dubbed Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and Storm-2603 -- targeting internet-facing SharePoint servers using...
Russia seeks to fine web users searching for content deemed 'extremist'
Jul 22, 2025 (AFP)
More than 5,000 entries are on the Russian justice ministry's list of "extremist materials", including songs praising Ukraine, blog posts by feminist rock band ...
Chinese-born engineer pleads guilty to stealing US trade secrets
Jul 21, 2025 (AFP)
Chenguang Gong, 59, of San Jose, California, was accused of transferring more than 3,600 files from the research and development company where he worked to his ...
Singapore military helps battle cyberattack: minister
Jul 19, 2025 (AFP)
Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing said these select units will work with the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) in a united government response to the threat, local medi...
Zuckerberg settles lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Jul 17, 2025 (AFP)
A trial over the long-running case had just begun on Wednesday, with defendants accused of overpaying the US government in 2019 when they engineered a $5 billio...
China jails Japanese national for espionage: embassy
Jul 16, 2025 (AFP)
The man, an employee of the Japanese pharmaceutical company Astellas, was detained in March 2023 and placed under formal arrest in October. He was "sentenced to...
Pentagon inks contracts for Musk's xAI, competitors
Jul 15, 2025 (AFP)
Each of the contracts to xAI, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have a ceiling value of $200 million, the Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office...
Ukraine, Russia trade blows in escalating spy war
Jul 13, 2025 (UPI)
On Sunday, Ukraine's Security Service, or SBU, announced that its officers had killed two Russian special services agents in Kyiv. The pair, a man and a woman, ...
China denies asking firms to collect data illegally after new EU probe
Jul 11, 2025 (AFP)
"The Chinese government attaches great importance to and protects data privacy and security in accordance with the law," foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning s...
Latest Grok chatbot turns to Musk for some answers
Jul 11, 2025 (AFP)
The world's richest man unveiled the latest version of his generative AI model on Wednesday, days after the ChatGPT-competitor drew renewed scrutiny for posts t...
China says foiled foreign spying plots including 'honeytrap'
Jul 10, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing has stepped up espionage warnings in recent years as relations with the United States and other Western nations have worsened. Its Ministry of State Sec...
'Stuck in limbo': Over 90% of X's Community Notes unpublished, study says
Jul 09, 2025 (AFP)
The study by the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA), which analyzed the entire public dataset of 1.76 million notes published by X between Janua...
Visa's 24/7 war room takes on global cybercriminals
Jul 07, 2025 (AFP)
The numbers that the payments giant grapples with are enormous. Every year, $15 trillion flows through Visa's networks, representing roughly 15 percent of the w...
Building Tomorrow's Defense: Student Tech and National Security
Jul 02, 2025 (SPX)
For countless students, contributing to national defense is a powerful calling. Whether pursuing traditional engineering degrees or exploring emerging fields, m...
Swiss say foreign spying threat high, citing Russia, China
Jul 02, 2025 (AFP)
"The security situation around Switzerland is deteriorating year by year," the FIS said in its annual overview. "A global confrontation is emerging, with the US...
2 Chinese nationals charged with spying in the United States
Jul 01, 2025 (UPI)
Yuance Chen, 38, is a permanent legal resident of Happy Valley, Ore., and was arraigned on charges in the U.S. District Court of Oregon in Portland and accusing...
UK govt says Chinese spying on the rise
Jun 24, 2025 (AFP)
Foreign minister David Lammy told parliament the Labour administration would invest 600 million ($818 million) in its intelligence services as a result of the f...
Iran appoints new Revolutionary Guards intelligence chief
Jun 19, 2025 (AFP)
Major General Mohammad Pakpour, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), appointed Brigadier General Majid Khadami as the new head of ...
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