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All this would represent a serious threat to national security. Except that, strangely, Apple categorically denies that this happened. “We are strongly disagreed with the allegations of a targeted attack on our users,” said Apple’s security engineering manager Ivan Krstić, in a statement in Wired. Apple has corrected the problem that Overrify has highlighted in its report, which caused a plan of iPhones in certain cases when a message sender changed its own nickname and avatar. But he calls these accidents the result of a “conventional software bug”, and not proof of targeted exploitation. (This denial of coverage is certainly not Apple’s usual response to the hacking of confirmed iPhone. The company has, for example, prosecuted the hacking company NSO Group for its targeting of Apple customers.)
The result is that what could have been a fire at four alarms in the world of counterintelligence is reduced – to now – a very disturbing enigma.
A 22 -year -old former intern at La Heritage Foundation without national security experience would have been appointed to a key role in the Ministry of Internal Security supervising a major program designed to combat domestic terrorism.
According to Propublica, Thomas Fugate has assumed leadership of the Center for Programms and Partnerships (CP3), a DHS office responsible for financed efforts nationally to prevent politically motivated violence, including school shootings and other forms of domestic terrorism.
Fugate, a graduate in 2024 of the University of Texas in San Antonio, replaced the former director of the CP3, Bill Braniff, an army veteran with 20 years of national security experience who resigned in March following the clippings of staff ordered by the Trump administration.
According to the latest CP3 report at the Congress, the office financed more than 1,100 initiatives aimed at disrupting violent extremism. In recent months, the United States has seen a series of high-level targeted attacks, including a bombing of cars in California and the shooting of two aids at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. Its $ 18 million grant program, designed to support local prevention efforts, is now under the supervision of Fugate.
Pirate group names have long been a inevitable absurdity in the cybersecurity industry. Each intelligence company on threats, in a scientifically defendable attempt not to assume that they follow the same pirates as another company, offers their own code name for any group they observe. The result is a somewhat stupid profusion of overlapping name systems based on elements, weather and zoology: “Fantasy bears” is “Forest Blizzard” is “Apt28” is “strontium”. From now on, several major threat intelligence players, including Google, Microsoft, Crowdstrike and Palo Alto Networks, have finally shared enough of their internal research to accept a glossary which confirms that they refer to the same entities. Companies have done not, However, agree to consolidate their name systems in a single taxonomy. This agreement therefore does not mean the end of sentences in security reports such as “the pirate sandworm group, also known as Telebots, Voodoo Bear, Hades, Iron Viking, Electrum or Beashell Blizzard”. This simply means that we, cybersecurity journalists, can write this sentence with a little more confidence.
Chris Wade, the founder and CTO of the reverse engineering company of Corellium mobile devices, had a wild decade: in 2005, he was sentenced for criminal charges to have allowed spammers by providing them with proxy servers, and agreed to work under cult for the application of the law while avoiding prison. Then in 2020, he mysteriously received a forgiveness from President Donald Trump. He also settled a major Apple copyright law. Now, his business, which creates virtual images of Android and iOS devices so that customers can find ways to penetrate them, is acquired by the Celibrite telephone company, an important law enforcement entrepreneur, for 200 million dollars – a significant day of pay for a pirate who found himself on both sides of the law.
