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The accidental inclusion of The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a Signal chat detailing where bombs were going to fall in Yemen has managed to elicit bipartisan astonishment and criticism.

This was undoubtedly , not to mention careless and potentially illegal. It’s also a sign of what to expect from a government led by a president whose operational security has long been a concern, from his use of a personal device to do government business, to his hoarding of classified files at Mar-a-Lago.

A more immediate intelligence concern, though, is that former news anchor and now . Then there’s national security advisor , the one who set up the chat and added Goldberg to it in the first place. Lawmakers are, understandably, calling for Hegseth and Waltz to go.

“It does not take much imagination to consider the likely ramifications if this information had been made public prior to the strike – or worse, if it had been shared with or visible to an adversary rather than ,” a group of Senators, including Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wrote to President Trump on Monday.

Another concern is that other officials - including and - were also on the chat but didn’t appear to push back against this information being shared on it. Typically, (or “SCIF”), not staffers’ personal devices

If anything, the leak is encouragement for the likes of , all of whom have been building substantial cyber espionage operations in recent years. All will now be . It was only last month that Google researchers warned about Russia targeting Signal accounts of Ukrainian military chiefs. If America’s adversaries ever break into the phones of Trump officials, they could well land on a goldmine of U.S. intel and military secrets.

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has been trying to use for user information, but the tech isn’t working as well as hoped. Unable to parse cops’ data demands and retrieve the right data, it’s often made the work of Google staff more onerous than it already was.

With the number of backlogged requests now in the thousands, staff say they’d like some better automation tools, but now sources tell Forbes that and the future of the software is in doubt.

Researchers at the claim to have found more examples of spyware made by Israeli-founded . The software is being deployed across Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore. Previously, a number of Italian journalists said they’d been targeted. The researchers also detailed cases where .

filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this weekend and users’ DNA data is now up for grabs. Hackers had stolen information on 7 million users in 2023, leading to a slew of civil cases filed by victims. The company fears it and can avoid that via bankruptcy and a potential buyout.

Tornado Cash got a huge boost this week as the Trump administration removed economic sanctions against the cryptocurrency firm. It had previously been sanctioned after North Korean hackers and other cybercriminals were seen laundering stolen crypto using Tornado Cash’s platform, which allows users to “tumble” their digital currency together and across different accounts . While the Trump administration said it recognized that digital thieves had used Tornado, the potential for cryptocurrency to foster innovation trumped the risk of allowing the platform to remain open to Americans.

Gotbit, a consulting company accused of artificially inflating trading volume in cryptocurrencies for clients, has agreed to forfeit $23 million in seized crypto and immediately cease operations. Its founder Aleksei Andriunin also pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit market manipulation and wire fraud, the Justice Department announced.

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