All of this will pose a serious threat to national security. Apart from that, strangely, Apple frankly denies it happened. “We strongly disagree with the claims of targeted attacks against users,” Apple engineering director Ivan Krstić wrote in a statement to Wired. Apple has patched issues highlighted in its report, and in some cases, the iPhone crashed when the message sender changed his nickname and avatar. But it calls these crashes the result of “regular software errors” rather than evidence of targeted exploitation. (Of course, refusing a package of denials is not Apple’s usual response to confirmed iPhone hackers.
The result is that the fires that could be four resilient in the counterintelligence world have reduced the frustrating mystery.
A 22-year-old former intern at a Heritage Foundation with no national security experience was reportedly appointed as a key department of the Department of Homeland Security to oversee major programs designed to combat family terrorism.
According to ProPublica, Thomas Fugate was headed by the Center for Programs and Partnerships (CP3), the country’s Department of Homeland Security’s office was responsible for nationwide funding efforts to prevent politically motivated violence – including school shootings and other forms of family terrorism.
Fugate, who graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2024, replaced former CP3 director Bill Braniff, an Army veteran with 20 years of national security experience, resigned in March after the Trump administration ordered layoffs.
According to the latest report from CP3 to Congress, the office has funded more than 1,100 initiatives aimed at undermining violent extremism. In recent months, the United States has seen a series of high-profile target attacks, including car bombings in California and shootings of two Israeli embassies AIDS in Washington, D.C. Its $18 million grant program, reportedly aims to support local prevention efforts, is now under supervision by Fugate.
The name of the hacking team has long been absurdity in the cybersecurity industry. Every threat intelligence company has a scientifically defendable attempt without assuming they are following the same hackers they have given their own code names for any group they have observed. The result is the stupid meaning of the overlapping naming system based on elements, weather and zoology: “fancy bear” is “forest blizzard” is “apt28” is “bevel”. Now, several major threat intelligence participants, including Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks, have finally shared their internal research to agree to confirm that they are referring to the same entity’s glossary. The company did it no, However, it is agreed to merge its naming system into a single taxonomy. Therefore, the protocol does not mean that sentences in security reports end, such as “hacker group Sandworm, also known as Telebots, Voodoo Bear, Hades, Iron Viking, Electrum, or Seashell Blizzard”. This just means that we cybersecurity journalists can write this sentence with more confidence.
Chris Wade, founder and chief technology officer of mobile device reverse engineering company Corellium, lasted for decades: in 2005, he was convicted of providing a proxy server to spammers on charges of providing them with proxy servers and agreeing to work for law enforcement while they are in the process. Then in 2020, he mysteriously received pardon from President Donald Trump. He also settled major copyright lawsuits from Apple. Now his company has created virtual images of Android and iOS devices so customers can find ways to break into them, acquired by major law enforcement contractor Cellebrite (for $200 million), a major payday for a hacker who both parties in the law find themselves.
