It also plans offensive cyberoperations for potential use against adversaries. Hegseth’s directive

by Isaac R. Porche IIIRecent reports indicate that Russian forces used hacking to intercept a U.S. surveillance drone flying over the Crimea region of Ukraine in March.... Sometimes this contest involves keeping these wireless channels up and running.... At other times, it involves seeking to shut them down through jamming. The past decade has seen a proliferation of wireless technologies, such as those used to fly U.S. drones and those allegedly used to intercept one of them over Crimea....

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The Chinese code, the officials say, appears directed at ordinary utilities that often serve both civilian populations and nearby military bases.... Most spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential and in some cases classified assessments. They say the investigations so far show the Chinese effort appears more widespread — in the United States and at American facilities abroad — than they had initially realized.... Hodge was referring to a series of executive orders, some motiv

Three former U.S. intelligence operatives have admitted to working illegally as mercenary hackers for the United Arab Emirates in operations that included developing sophisticated spyware capable of tapping into mobile devices without any action by their users, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Support our journalism.... New Pegasus hack prompts company to issue new software to fix iMessage vulnerability. Court filings did not explicitly say why the government offered the concession....

Li Shangfu, China’s defense minister, in June at a security forum in Singapore.... Li Shangfu, has been placed under investigation, according to two U.S. officials, fueling speculation about further upheaval in the military after the abrupt removal of two top commanders in charge of the country’s nuclear force. General Li has not been seen in public in more than two weeks.... Xi replaced the two most senior commanders of the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force, which oversees China’s nuclear

“ And we don’t have the ability to make the most advanced chips now — right now.... Ninety percent of the most advanced chips are made in Taiwan.... In the scenario, the U.S. team presumed the Taiwan team would go along with its strategies to counter China....

As Microsoft releases new “ patches ” to close the holes in its system, that code is being reverse-engineered by criminal groups and exploited to launch rapid ransomware attacks on corporations, industry executives said.... Biden was briefed last week on the effort to seal up the holes in federal defenses, a senior administration official told reporters on Friday, adding that the federal government was in the third week of a monthlong effort to plug holes made obvious by the SolarWinds hack....