CYBER WARS

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WhatsApp 'concerned' services to be blocked after Iran calls to delete app
Jun 18, 2025 (AFP)
State television IRIB appealed to Iranians on Tuesday to delete WhatsApp from their phones, alleging that the app collected users' personal data and "last known...
Musk's X sues to block New York social media transparency law
Jun 18, 2025 (AFP)
The complaint, filed in a federal court in Manhattan, seeks to halt the law, which X argues violates the First Amendment by forcing platforms to disclose sensit...
Israel's strikes on Iran were years in the making: analysts
Jun 15, 2025 (AFP)
Israel said it hit hundreds of targets on Friday alone, and has since continued its attacks, striking a defence facility and fuel depots on Sunday. The fiercest...
Ex-CIA analyst gets three years in prison for sharing top secret information
Jun 12, 2025 (UPI)
Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, had been a CIA employee since 2016 with a top secret security clearance and had access to sensitive information until his te...
Hong Kong warns downloading game could be national security crime
Jun 11, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing is extremely sensitive to even subtle hints of dissent, and in 2020 imposed a national security law in Hong Kong that has effectively quashed any politi...
DOD is investigating Hegseth's staffers over Houthi-strikes chats
Jun 07, 2025 (UPI)
The IG's office initiated the investigation weeks ago and has interviewed current and former Hegseth staffers to learn how the chat and one other that occurred ...
Iran obtained 'sensitive' Israeli intelligence: state TV
Jun 07, 2025 (AFP)
"Iran's intelligence apparatus has obtained a vast quantity of strategic and sensitive information and documents belonging to the Zionist regime (Israel)," the ...
Czech FM summons Chinese ambassador over cyberattack
May 28, 2025 (AFP)
The Czech foreign ministry said an extensive investigation of the attack "led to a high degree of certainty about the responsible actor", naming it as China-lin...
Czech Republic blames China for cyberattack on foreign ministry
May 28, 2025 (UPI)
Little information about the cyberattack was made public, the Czech government said it began in 2022, affected an institution designated as Czech critical infra...
Searching for threats to undersea cables off the Dutch coast
May 19, 2025 (AFP)
The vessel is part of an exercise bringing together six countries and more than 20 companies and researchers hoping to stay ahead of the enemy as the danger to ...
Coinbase expects data breach to cost it up to $400 mn
May 15, 2025 (AFP)
Instead of paying up, Coinbase informed US regulators about the theft and made plans to spend from $180 million to $400 million to reimburse victims and deal wi...
Three Germans go on trial accused of spying for China
May 13, 2025 (AFP)
The defendants are a married couple identified only as Herwig F. and Ina F., aged 73 and 69, and another man, 60-year-old Thomas R., on trial in the western cit...
India tells X to block over 8,000 accounts
May 08, 2025 (AFP)
The move appears to be part of India's sweeping crackdown targeting social media accounts of Pakistani politicians, celebrities and media organizations amid hei...
University of Rochester and RIT Launch Experimental Quantum Communications Network
May 07, 2025 (SPX)
Quantum communication relies on quantum bits, or qubits, which can be formed from atoms, superconductors, and defects in materials like diamond. However, photon...
China slams CIA recruitment ads as 'naked political provocation'
May 06, 2025 (AFP)
"The United States not only maliciously smears and attacks China, but also openly deceives and lures Chinese personnel to surrender, even directly targeting Chi...
US jury awards WhatsApp $168 mn in NSO Group cyberespionage suit
May 06, 2025 (AFP)
Meta-owned WhatsApp sued NSO in late 2019 in federal court in Northern California, accusing it of planting Pegasus spy software on the smartphones of targets us...
China denies accessing data after TikTok hit with huge EU fine
May 03, 2025 (AFP)
The social media giant was told to pay 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday for transferring user data from Europe to China and failing to guarantee it wa...
Radio Free Asia shuts language services after Trump cuts
May 02, 2025 (AFP)
Radio Free Asia -- created by the United States with a mission to deliver news in countries without free media -- said it will terminate 280 staff members in Wa...
China urges Germany to 'stop smearing and vilifying' it in spy case
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
The alleged spy, named by prosecutors as Jian G., is suspected of working with Chinese intelligence since 2002, including while he was an aide to the Alternativ...
Facing Trump, Microsoft vows to protect Europeans' data
Apr 30, 2025 (AFP)
The tech titan's pledges come as the return of President Donald Trump has upended the relationship between the United States and Europe, reversing decades of US...
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