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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New warnings that Russian operatives are targeting the emails of US nuclear scientists and defense contractors. 🔗 media.defense.gov/20...

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

These outdated versions contain bugs that attackers can exploit by loading them from a USB or file to run malicious code during boot bypassing normal protections. 2/3

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The shim is a small helper program that Microsoft signs so Linux distributions can securely boot their own loaders. ESET researchers found 11 old forgotten shims still carrying valid Microsoft signatures from years ago. 1/3

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

- India could get 18 servers mirroring all 13 root servers that underpin the internet - In-country servers cut DNS latency & let ISPs contain cyber attacks at the gateway. The request is part of India's broader digital sovereignty strategy to reduce dependence. 3/3

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

But Indian government is now pushing #ICANN to change that. - #MeitY wants a root server cluster in India for the first time. Anyone aware of any development please comment. - ICANN runs clusters in Singapore, Europe, the US, Egypt & Kenya, none in India. Strange right? 2/3

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Every time someone in India loads a website, the #DNS query routes to a root server in the US to get resolved. Sadly, even though India being one of the world's largest internet populations, yet India has zero #RootServer clusters of its own 😕 🔗 swarajyamag.com/news... 1/3

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Once clicked `ABCDoor` gets unpacked and loaded into the host system. (With newer versions of `RustSL` expanding to include the geographic region of Japan.) 4/9

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The starting point of the attack chain is a phishing email containing a PDF file, which features two clickable links a ZIP or RAR archive hosted on `abc.haijing88[.]com`. 3/9

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Silver Fox (also known as CL-STA-0048), a threat group based in China, has been linked to a new campaign, using a previously undocumented backdoor called `ABCdoor`, targeting organizations in Russia and India with phishing attacks using: 1/9

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

As agentic AI systems gain autonomy in #CriticalInfrastructure environments, attack surfaces & privilege risks grow. Check out our new guidance detailing threat modeling, defense-in-depth, & best practices for secure deployment. 👉 go.dhs.gov/54r

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Indonesian authorities convicted three individuals for financing terrorism through crypto — tracing on-chain flows to connect wallet addresses to ISIS-linked networks. 🔗 trmlink.info/4e3JcEP

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Declassified: In a new book, academic Damien Van Puyvelde looks at the functioning and role of the French Foreign Intelligence Service (DGSE)... It also examine the legitimacy of it's actions in a Democracy. 👇 🔗 l.lepoint.fr/KQm

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This SIPRI good practice guide aims to strengthen efforts by PMP Code of Practice supporters by clarifying how export controls can be applied to CCICs and informing multilateral discussions on using export controls to tackle proliferation and misuse. 🔗 www.sipri.org/public...

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

One of the most important US-based commercial satellite imagery providers on whom most media outlets rely says the government has asked all imagery providers to indefinitely withhold satellite images from the Israel-USA-Iran War.

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Israeli spies stand accused by Slovenian law enforcement of helping leak recordings designed to undermine PM Robert Golob’s government ahead of a national election. The espionage claims land at a moment of heightened anxiety in Europe. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/blac...

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Google Threat Intelligence Group has identified DarkSword, a new iOS exploit chain leveraging six zero-day vulnerabilities. Multiple threat actors are actively using it to deploy malware payloads. Update your devices or enable Lockdown Mode. 👉 bit.ly/4bRveEz

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Growing Surveillance in America 👇 "The laws will lead to more data being collected on kids, which predatory companies can then use to target them in a more invasive way". ✍️ Taylor Lorenz for #TheIntercept. Read her report 🔗 interc.pt/4szOqfP

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

US DHS quietly removed a Biden-era policy from its website that outlined oversight & privacy safeguards for facial recognition & other biometric tools. “This is taking a big & very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns...

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

U.S.-based satellite imagery company Planet Labs announced a temporary 96-hour delay on new satellite imagery over Gulf states, Iraq, and Kuwait during the current conflict "to prevent near-real-time analysis of damage to U.S. and allied military sites."

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The transition towards vibe-coded malware, aka vibeware, has been characterized by Bitdefender as Distributed Denial of Detection. In this framework, the objective is not to bypass security through technical brilliance, but to exhaust the defenders through automated volume. 9/9

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Military operations in Venezuela and, most recently, Iran, have put cyber power at the centre of high-stakes military missions. But when digital capabilities can black out cities and influence political outcomes, who decides how far they should go? 🔗 cybernews.com/editor...

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Coruna exploit kit is targeting iOS. Coruna leverages 23 exploits against Apple devices running iOS 13-17.2.1. It is being used for espionage, and by financially motivated actors to steal crypto. Update your iOS devices, and learn more about this threat: bit.ly/4rbeltc

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

France's Ministry of Finance admits that someone hijacked a civil servant's login credentials and had been poking around FICOBA, the national bank account registry. 1/3

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🇺🇸 US Launches $200Mn ‘Edge AI’ Package For Indo-Pacific The US State Department unveiled a funding push of up to $200 Mn to accelerate secure, “trusted” next-gen smartphones and AI software ecosystems across the Indo-Pacific.

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The Bank Secrecy Act enables this surveillance infrastructure, and companies like Persona profit from building digital panopticons that would make Orwell blush. Crypto like Ethereum is the antidote: permissionless, no KYC at the protocol level, no central point of failure... 7/7

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The researchers confirmed that the government platform (withpersona-gov.com) runs the SAME codebase as the commercial platform, verified through matching git commits... 6/7

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

When you hand over your passport to use a chatbot, your biometrics end up in permanent government watchlist databases. This is the digital panopticon in action, and it's exactly what Bitcoin skeptics of KYC have been warning about for years. 4/7

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Takeaways: • Massiv is a completely new Device Takeover malware family. • Its remote control (RCE) abilities lead to confirmed fraudulent cases across southern Europe (🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇫🇷). • IPTV applications are increasingly becoming mobile malware distribution channel.

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A critical Remote Code Execution (#RCE) vulnerability in #Mozilla #Firefox was caused by a single-character typo in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine’s WebAssembly garbage collection code, where a developer mistakenly typed “&” (bitwise AND) instead of “|” (bitwise OR). 🧵👇 1/9

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

AI start-up Perplexity has abandoned advertising over fears that it will erode user trust, despite rivals pushing ahead with introducing ads as they seek strategies to make money from the technology. 1/6

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A DPRK-linked Contagious Interview operation is escalating. A technical analysis by Seongsu Park details how victims are tricked into installing a fake MetaMask extension that silently steals the unlock password for wallet takeover. 🔗 sp4rk.medium.com/bey...

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A new academic study mapped password recovery attack paths across Bitwarden, LastPass, & Dashlane—testing 0-Trust designs against a malicious server model. Researchers identified 25 attack scenarios impacting vault integrity and recovery flows. No active exploitation reported.

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

US Rep. Greg Steube has introduced the EXILE Act to abolish the H-1B visa program, citing its misuse by corporations to replace American workers. The move impacts Indian professionals, who form the largest H-1B group, and reflects rising political hostility to the program.

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The bank stealer targets online banking apps, like India's UPI platforms like #GooglePay and #PhonePe, and payment services such as #ApplePay and #PayPal. Credential theft occurs by overlaying fake screens. This is where we definitely knows who could do it. 4/5

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Researchers at mobile threat hunting company #iVerify say that ZeroDayRAT not just steals data but also enables real-time surveillance through GPS, Camera, Microphone, as well a keylogging module to capture user input, like passwords, gestures, or screen unlock patterns. 3/5

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The #malware provides buyers with a full-featured dashboard panel for managing infected devices, reportedly supporting Android version 5 to Android 16 and on iOS up to version 26 latest. Scary 😱 2/5

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

India is in advanced talks with Chile on a comprehensive free trade agreement that could give it long-term access to key critical minerals such as lithium, copper, cobalt and molybdenum, which are essential for electric vehicles, electronics and clean energy. 1/2

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Thomas Dohmke, who stepped down as GitHub chief in late 2025, launched Entire to build tools for human-AI developer collaboration. The $60 million seed round was led by Felicis, with backing from Jerry Yang, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel, and Y Combinator head Garry Tan.

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

India's #UPI payment system experienced widespread disruptions Tuesday evening, with Ookla's #Downdetector recording nearly 600 user complaints. UPI handles about 700 million daily transactions & powers 85% of India's retail digital payment, making outages highly disruptive. 1/2

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

India's Committee of Secretaries gave in-principle clearance to Direct-to-Mobile broadcasting, which streams content to phones without data. #DigitalIndia 1/2

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The report did not provide many details about the hacking campaign targeting the country. A spokesperson for Norway’s embassy in the U.S. did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Norway is the latest country to confirm a Salt Typhoon-related intrusion. 2/2

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

In a report published on Friday, the Norwegian Police Security Service accused the APT group #SaltTyphoon, believer to be working for the Chinese government, of breaking into Norwegian network devices to conduct espionage. Report 🔗 www.pst.no/wp-conten... 1/2

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🚨 Just Released: Binding Operational Directive 26-02 focuses on mitigating risks from end-of-support edge devices. CISA urged all orgs to review and implement the recommended actions immediately to protect the network. 👉 go.dhs.gov/iDR

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

According to the report, the hackers didn’t face a lot of resistance. The targeted systems used default usernames and passwords and did not have multi-factor authentication enabled, both incredibly basic mistakes. 3/3

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Shinzo Abe’s assassin, Tetsya Yamagami, was motivated by his hatred of the Unification Church, a cult that has exerted significant influence in Japan since the 1960s—and that Yamagami’s mother joined when he was just 10. Who caused it & why? 🔗 newyorkermag.visitli...

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel must build a strong and independent arms industry, end its dependence on American military aid, and pursue joint defence production with partners such as India. #Israël #America #India #Defence #Military

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Google on Tuesday announced a significant update to its Android theft-protection arsenal, introducing new tools and settings aimed at making stolen smartphones harder for criminals to access and exploit. 1/10

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

X Is Down With More Than 100,000 Users Report Outage The problem stemmed from the cybersecurity services provider Cloudflare. Users have been left with blank screens and empty feeds.

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏 📚 💻 @stringsvsatoms.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

He is also the author of The Fourth Intelligence Revolution: The Future of Espionage and the Battle to Save America. 2/4

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