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  • Pentagon Cites Classified Intelligence In Opposition To DJI’s FCC Petition, Raising The Stakes In Drone Ban Fight
    by Haye Kesteloo on April 11, 2026 at 1:43 pm

    The Department of Defense filed a memorandum with the Federal Communications Commission opposing DJI’s petition to be removed from the agency’s Covered List, as first reported by Broadband Breakfast on April 7. The filing’s most consequential detail is what it doesn’t fully reveal: according to the DoD’s memo, the national security determination that led to

  • NSU Trains Fort Polk Soldiers on Drone Operations
    by Rafael Suárez on April 11, 2026 at 1:28 pm

    Northwestern State University’s ARGO Lab just ran its first drone training program for soldiers at Fort Polk, Louisiana. The two-day course took troops from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division through the fundamentals of UAS operations, flight planning, sensor work, and field maintenance, as reported by National Today. What the Training Covered JD

  • FAA Clears Military to Use Anti-Drone Lasers in U.S. Airspace After Two-Month Standoff
    by Haye Kesteloo on April 11, 2026 at 1:26 pm

    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the U.S. military formal clearance on Friday to use high-energy lasers against suspected drones in U.S. airspace, ending a two-month interagency dispute that twice shut down commercial flight operations over the Texas-Mexico border. FAA administrator Bryan Bedford said in a joint statement with the Defense Department that the agency

  • XDOWN’s STUD Drone Goes From Backpack to Airborne in 2 seconds Flat
    by Rafael Suárez on April 10, 2026 at 5:08 pm

    US defense startup XDOWN has unveiled the STUD (Small Tactical Unmanned Drone), a hand-launched UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) designed to reach active flight from a stowed position in two seconds. According to NextGen Defense, a single soldier can carry 8 to 12 units in a standard tactical backpack, launch them by hand, and let the

  • Colorado Springs Drones First on Scene 61% of Calls
    by Rafael Suárez on April 10, 2026 at 4:11 pm

    The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) is telling the full story of what seven drones stationed across the city are actually doing, and the numbers are hard to argue with. In an interview with KKTV published April 6, 2026, CSPD Sgt. Jeff Edmonds said the drones, part of the department’s Real Time Crime Center Unit,

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  • Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
    by BrianKrebs on April 7, 2026 at 5:02 pm

    Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code.

  • Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
    by BrianKrebs on April 6, 2026 at 2:07 am

    An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021.

  • ‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran
    by BrianKrebs on March 23, 2026 at 3:43 pm

    A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran's time zone or have Farsi set as the default language.

  • Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks
    by BrianKrebs on March 20, 2026 at 12:49 am

    The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets -- named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad -- are responsible for a series of recent record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking nearly any target offline.

  • Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker
    by BrianKrebs on March 11, 2026 at 4:20 pm

    A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker's largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than 5,000 workers there today. Meanwhile, a voicemail message at Stryker's main U.S. headquarters says the company is currently experiencing a building emergency.

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