PowerSchool, a cloud-based software provider for K-12 schools, confirmed on January 7 that hackers breached its systems late last year, affecting thousands of school districts across the United States...
Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics
A review of Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar, “Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination—and Secret Diplomacy—to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East” (Simon & Schuster, 2023).
The World Bowls Tour (WBT) on December 31 reversed its decision to bar three Israeli athletes from competing in the World Indoor Bowls Championships to be held in England in mid-January...
Prohibiting Foreign Interference
U.S. discomfort over Turkish support for Hamas has reached a new threshold in the wake of reports that the Iran-backed terrorist organization is moving its headquarters from Qatar to Turkey, which is a...
Israeli Airstrikes Target Hezbollah’s Intelligence Headquarters Branch Near Damascus: In a rare statement acknowledging a military operation in Syria, the IDF said that it struck...
At the start of this month, both Suidani and Talifilu were arrested on three counts of unlawful assembly related to the failed no confidence vote of 2021.
Beijing’s Playbook for Economic and Cyber Warfare
U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was executed by Hamas in late August after being taken hostage from an Israeli music festival and held in Gaza for more than 300 days. In response, a bipartisan roster...
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, reported on August 23 that it blocked a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts used by Iranian cyber-attackers to target officials...
Latest Developments OpenAI announced on August 16 that it deactivated several ChatGPT accounts engaged in a covert Iranian influence operation. The artificial intelligence (AI) company said that it...
Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraq-based Iranian proxy militia, threatened Saudi Arabia in a statement on July 13 for enabling the “the battle against the Palestinians.” Following previous...
Tensions on Israel’s northern border continued to escalate on June 10, as Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists launched drones and missiles at cities and towns deeper inside of the...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began a ground operation in the Bureij area of central Gaza on June 4, confirming in a statement that “Israeli Air Force fighter jets are now attacking...
Woke warriors add neo-Nazism to the neo-Marxist/Islamist mix
Iran seized an Israeli-linked, Portuguese-flagged commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz on April 13. Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boarded the MSC...
China-Linked Influence Operation Endures Despite Takedowns