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British and Norwegian militaries led an operation to deter Russian submarines suspected of malign activity in the north Atlantic

A hacker using the alias “FlamingChina” claims to have breached China’s National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, stealing over 10PB of data spanning aerospace, military research, bioinformatics and fusion simulations, and is offering access for sale in cryptocurrency — CNN

The data from the hack at the Chinese super computer center included missile schematics and fusion simulations. If, as claimed, the hacker had access to this information for months, it shows massive security issues. Along with the recent purges and weapons failures, this hack shows serious problems in China's military industrial complex. If this is real, it could be one of the largest data breaches in China’s history. A hacker group claims it extracted over 10 petabytes of data from a state-run supercomputing facility, widely believed by experts to be the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin.

Russian GRU spying operation exposed in Finnish homes.The Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO) and Traficom's Cyber ​​Security Center participated in an international operation led by the FBI to disrupt the cyber espionage operations of the Russian military intelligence service GRU

Media reports indicate that the widespread outage was caused by blocking IP addresses used in the banking infrastructure.

FBI officials recently alerted Congress to Chinese cyber hack classified as “major incident,” - FOX

The @AWS region in Bahrain appears to be offline after being damaged again in another Iranian strike. Traffic to me-south-1 disappeared around 01:00 UTC on April 1, with connection failures increasing significantly

Financial Times, citing sources: Amazon's cloud computing center in Bahrain was damaged in an Iranian attack

North Korea-linked hackers compromised Axios, a widely used open-source JavaScript library that handles API requests between apps, websites and servers, inserting malicious code into an update to harvest credentials and potentially access data across millions of systems in a supply chain attack, Google says

Fires reported in Bahrain as smoke rises over Hamala. Images circulating online show thick black smoke rising over western Bahrain, with multiple plumes visible across the Hamala area. Bahrain’s interior ministry says it is working to extinguish a fire at a business facility following what they described as an Iranian attack. Footage suggests an active blaze in a built-up area, though the exact site remains unclear

Users of the Russian national messenger Max are reporting an outage: messages are not being sent or received.

A mass purge of VPN services from the Russian App Store at the request of Roskomnadzor. More than twenty have already been removed.

Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown

Confirmed: Metrics indicate a collapse in connectivity on AS12880, a key Iran telecoms network that had so far remained partly online as part of the ~1% reserved state infrastructure. The incident corroborates reports of instability on the NIN domestic intranet

Poland says foiled cyberattack on nuclear centre may have come from Iran

Russia will be able to limit VPN traffic within 3-6 months, meaning the authorities will be able to fully block access to sites and apps currently accessible via VPN, like Whatsapp, Telegram, YouTube or Instagram, says Russian lawmaker Andrei Svintsov

Minister of Defense of Ukraine: Ukraine opens battlefield data to train AI models for autonomous systems — first in the world. Millions of annotated combat frames from thousands of missions are now available for partners to train AI. This creates a new win-win cooperation model: partners refine their technologies with unique data, while Ukraine scales frontline capabilities

On Feb-4, @Starlink disabled terminals in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine that weren't on Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's approved list. We saw a 75% drop in Starlink traffic to Ukraine as a result

US medical device maker Stryker hit with cyberattack from Iranian hacktivists who remotely wiped employee devices. "many employees have had their device data wiped and cannot access their accounts" Stryker makes surgical/imaging equipment, defibrillators

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine: Space and cyber operations disrupted communications networks during U.S. strikes on Iran

Iran is experiencing a near-total internet blackout, with connectivity down to about 4% of normal levels

Netblocks: Live metrics show a disruption to internet access in parts of Iran including Tehran with connectivity at 54% of ordinary levels. The incident comes as the US and Israel target the regime with military strikes and will limit visibility into incidents on the ground

Iranian media reports that state-run IRNA news agency has been hacked

Anthropic: No amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of Defense will change our stance on mass internal surveillance.

Anthropic says it will sue the Pentagon over its AI technology being classified as a supply chain risk.

U.S. sanctions Russian 'zero-day' broker over theft of defense trade secrets. State Department targets 'Operation Zero' and Australian insider after $1.3m crypto-heist of unpatched software vulnerabilities

The FSB issued press releases disguised as articles about a case against Pavel Durov for aiding terrorism. Durov's actions are being investigated under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 (aiding terrorist activity), Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on Tuesday night. The publications accused Durov of using the Telegram messaging app he created to assassinate nine Russian generals and coordinate attacks on schools and the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.

The UAE Cybersecurity Council said it foiled multiple organised “terrorist” cyberattacks targeting the UAE’s critical digital infrastructure. The attacks reportedly involved ransomware, phishing, and AI-enhanced tools, but no breaches or disruptions occurred

Semi-official news channels in telegram say Iran national security council has ordered data centers to get prepared for plausible upcoming internet blackout

The Trump administration covertly sent about 6,000 Starlink satellite-internet terminals into Iran after Tehran crushed nationwide protests and cut internet access. Source: WSJ