Former head of german intel agency (BND) was successfully targeted by the Signal-Support scam that dutch intelligence agencies link to Russia, reports Der Spiegel

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/spionage-ehemaliger-bnd-vize-wird-opfer-von-cyberangriff-a-3fb118d6-b740-4e09-bfa2-6bf67c3fd1e9

"Congress created a special Pentagon office to prevent the accidental targeting of civilians but it was dramatically scaled back by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth soon after he took office last year."

"The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites."

"The U.S. official told NPR that Hegseth's decision to scale back those efforts meant that the U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East, had only one staffer assigned to civilian casualty mitigation operations. "

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/11/nx-s1-5744981/pentagon-iran-missile-school-hegseth

Short newsletter item about one mistake from disinfo operations #Doppelgänger that makes it possible to tie together >100 domains

https://buttondown.com/readwrite/archive/edition-11-one-mistake-ties-together-more-than/

"Two former employees of government contractor L3Harris told TechCrunch that Coruna was, at least in part, developed by the company’s hacking and surveillance tech division, Trenchant"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/an-iphone-hacking-toolkit-used-by-russian-spies-likely-came-from-u-s-military-contractor/

"One striking difference is the poor performance of the Russian military and the sophistication of the U.S. and Israeli air campaign. But analysts say that the value of military firepower is limited when it is not clear what it is supposed to achieve.

And the United States’ objectives keep shifting. Mr. Trump on Friday demanded “unconditional surrender” by Iran, while members of his cabinet have presented various, more limited goals, like destroying Iran’s nuclear program and its missile arsenal."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/us/politics/trump-russia-ukraine-iran-war.html

"When Futurism reached out to the Pentagon regarding the use of AI in recent military operations — specifically the targeting of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school — we were referred to US CENTCOM, one of eleven unified commands under the Pentagon’s umbrella.

“We have nothing for you on this at this time,” CENTCOM said."

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school

If you're following the situation in Iran, this one is of interest to you.

Today, we're publishing a story that I find very important for many reasons.

We can prove how the regime in Iran is using facial recognition software to surveil its citizens. We have obtained videos showing the software in a live-scenario, at metro stations in Teheran. We have contracts, and we have had a look at the code, built by the Russian company Ntechlab whose algorithms are deemed to be best-in class.

We spoke with a dozen people who know the regime, either because they had to flee after being imprisoned or from a technical point of view.

All of this, and more, you can find in our reporting, #EyesOfIran. Here are the links:

SPIEGEL: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/iran-so-gnadenlos-spaeht-regime-die-eigene-bevoelkerung-aus-ein-insider-packt-aus-a-7990ef28-3c9d-427b-be9a-5f46d06bea6c?giftToken=7fdb6b96-b2f1-4799-b8ff-e55fed5496d1

Standard: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000310751/ein-regime-im-ueberlebensmodus-leak-zeigt-irans-massive-ueberwachung-im-land?ref=niewidget

ZDF: https://www.zdf.de/play/magazine/frontal-das-magazin-100/datenleak-iran-ueberwachung-gesichtserkennung-software-100

Forbidden Stories: https://forbiddenstories.org/iran-regime-monitors-citizens/

So, Enisa, the cybersecurity agency of the EU, releases a yearly Threat Landscape. In the 2025 edition, they've used AI. And the AI introcuded loads of errors. Five percent of all the links end up 404

One of the researchers.(@wavehackr) told me: "You just had to click once", to check whether the links are valid or not. Upon closer inspection, you'd notice something was amiss just by looking, i.e., Enisa referenced a blogpost by MSFT. The link has "APT29" in it. Microsoft is very picky about those names.

They even have a blogpost about their naming convention (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/unified-secops/microsoft-threat-actor-naming) What other companies call APT29, MSFT calls "Midnight Blizzard". The AI apparently didn't dig those subtleties.

Here's the story
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000303214/peinliche-panne-bericht-der-eu-agentur-fuer-cybersicherheit-mit-ki-verfasst-und-fehlerhaft