Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups

Security researchers exposed a spying campaign by a hack-for-hire group that used Android spyware and phishing to steal iCloud credentials and hack victims’ devices.

Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi
Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi

In short: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening “complete and utter annihilation” of OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi, singling out the facility by name for the first time and warning it will strike if …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.

At 8pm Tehran time on Tuesday, a new kind of front line was drawn, not through desert terrain or along a disputed border, but through the server farms, cloud regions, and corporate campuses of America’s largest technology companies. The Islamic Revolut…

South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze
South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze

When Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February, choking off the corridor through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas flows, the immediate consequences were predictable: crude prices spiked, energy markets convulsed, and geopoli…

US and Israel Launch Strikes Against Iran

US president Donald Trump said a “major combat operation” against Iran had begun as he called for the country’s government to be overthrown.

How a hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East

The phishing campaign targeted users on WhatsApp, including an Iranian-British activist, and stole the credentials of a Lebanese cabinet minister and at least one journalist.