FBI arrests an Iranian national at LAX for trafficking arms on behalf of the Iranian regime and coordinating with the IRGC. She brokered sales of Iranian-manufactured bombs, drones, assault weapons, and millions of rounds of ammunition to Sudan.
New addition
Journal article: Universities as the Next Counterintelligence Battleground in Geopolitical Contests by Brendan Walker-Munro, Sascha-Dominik Dov Bachmann (published 15-04-2026)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.70...
“Former intelligence and law enforcement officials also have a responsibility to speak out. If they see intelligence being distorted, misused or politicized, they must say so clearly and publicly.” —Senate Intel Vice Chair Mark Warner
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...
Exclusive: EU to stop funding EU projects with Chinese inverters, as grandstanding on Beijing gives way to quiet offensive
My report on a quiet decision taken by von der Leyen and her college that suggests the work of de-risking continues apace
The editors of Wired (@wired.com) appear determined to turn an article about GrapheneOS into a hit piece. Wired contacted James Donaldson, CEO of Copperhead, and appears to be treating his thoroughly debunked fabrications about the history of the project as their primary source. This is outrageous.
NEW REPORT: “Uncovering Webloc: An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech”
Our research confirms that ad-based surveillance tech Webloc is used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies across the globe.
citizenlab.ca/research/ana...
NEW: The CIA late last year raised the status of its elite cyber espionage division, providing it more resources to analyze and disrupt digital threats, as well as amp up the agency’s own technological innovation efforts.
therecord.media/cia-director...
Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance (3 April 2026) www.techdirt.com/2026/04/03/s... by Tim Cushing
Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.
“[…] an authorization permitting the private sector to conduct offensive cyber operations [will] complicate oversight, create counterintelligence risks, fuel arms races and insecurity, and put civilians at risk […]” (1 April 2026) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
By Ron Deibert / Citizen Lab.
Confirming @jsaks.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/03... that DHS has closed its investigation into the former acting CISA director's failed polygraph.
5 of the 7 employees under investigation have been reinstated, while the other 2 had already resigned, per a person familiar with the matter.
Claude Code's source was apparently leaked via a source map inclusion in NPM? Oh NPM, you're the gift that keeps on giving.
Here's a link to what appears to be the source: github.com/abubakars...
Honestly, kinda silly it wasn't open source already.
The Truth Behind Section 702 Query Statistics @justsecurity.org
Critics of the practice (including the Brennan Center) have argued that it violates the Fourth Amendment and turns a surveillance authority that is intended to be targeted only against foreigners overseas into a domestic spying tool. ☑️
U.S: “six democratic lawmakers are pressing the nation’s top intelligence official to publicly disclose whether Americans who use commercial VPN services risk being treated as foreigners under United States surveillance law” (26 March 2026) www.wired.com/story/using-...
“The FBI is aware of malicious actors targeting Director Patel’s personal email information, and we have taken all necessary steps to mitigate potential risks associated with this activity,” a spokesperson for the FBI told TechCrunch in a statement. “The information in question is historical in nature and involves no government information.”
UPDATE: The FBI has confirmed the hack of director Kash Patel's personal gmail account, says the leaked data "is historical in nature and involves no government information."
techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/i...
SCOOP: Apple says it's not aware of anyone using Lockdown Mode getting hacked with spyware, on all kinds of devices.
There have already been a couple of documented cases of Lockdown Mode stopping spyware attacks. If you're worried about spyware, you should use turn this security feature on.
Someone (probably Russia?) hacked a call bt an EU pol and a Politico journalist as part of Russia's attempt to help Orbán. So Politico did a security review and posted it.
www.politico.eu/article/poli...
A whistleblower’s explosive testimony points to a covert operation targeting Hungary’s opposition — raising urgent questions about state power, intelligence agencies and the integrity of the upcoming election.
2/2 Expansion of an existing program:
‘This covert surveillance, which began in mid-2025, revealed that 🇷🇺 was utilizing civilian infrastructure in Belarus, particularly mobile network towers, to guide drone missions into 🇺🇦 and even some NATO territories’. united24media.com/latest-news/...
1/2 🇺🇦 has obtained intelligence that 🇷🇺 intends to deploy four ground-based control stations for long-range drones on Belarusian territory, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on 23 March, citing a briefing from the head of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence (HUR), Oleh Ivashchenko’.
A “takedown” without an arrest is usually just a pause, episode 833.
There’s also an asymmetry in that it often takes skilled personnel from several or even many agencies months to coordinate authorities and effect the technical aspects, whereas 1-2 threat actors set it all up again in days.
GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.
OK this is nuts.
A vulnerability in the Companies House website that let *anyone* with an account view ***ANY COMPANY'S DASHBOARD***, see all personal info and - I think - modify company records.
UPDATE: The European Parliament voted today to *end* untargeted mass scanning of private communications, firmly rejecting the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years! Next: trilogue negotiations w/ Commission and Council.
The hacker expressed disgust at the presence of child abuse images on the device and left a message threatening to turn its owner over to the FBI… FBI officials… convinced… the hacker that they actually were the FBI, by having the hacker join a video chat where they flashed their credentials
The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702
Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public "will be stunned" to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you've followed Wyden's…
Exclusive: US intelligence says Iran government is not at risk of collapse, say sources reut.rs/4rnENQ7
NEW: Dutch intelligence services are warning of new hacking campaigns against Signal and WhatsApp users, including government and military officials, and journalists worldwide.
The social engineering techniques used are not new, but the fact that the Dutch are warning against them means they work.
There's been a lot of speculation about this, and all signs pointed in this direction. But we now have former L3Harris Trenchant employees telling us that they recongnized some of the artifacts and codenames published by Google.
One of them also told us Coruna was used in Operation Triangulation.
