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What to make of Trump’s oddly specific claim that North Korea has 57 nukes

President Donald Trump raised eyebrows Wednesday by putting an unusually specific number on how many nuclear weapons Nor...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
UAT-10147 deploys SPECTRE: A cross-platform implant with Linux rootkit and BYOVD capabilities

The newly identified SPECTRE implant represents an evolution in commodity intrusion tooling, integrating cross-platform ...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
UAT-10147: Chinese-speaking adversary integrates agentic AI into post-compromise operations

Cisco Talos discovered a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group, tracked as UAT-10147, that targets a wide range of vulnerabl...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
Updated ToxicPanda Variant Targets 140+ Banking and Crypto Apps

Zimperium lifts the lid on the ToxicPanda 2.0 Android banking Trojan

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
Def Con Attendees Targeted by Persistent Phishing Campaign

Huntress researcher explains how they were targeted by an elaborate and persistent phishing scam following Def Con

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
Kim Jong Un positioned in the driver’s seat as Trump races for a summit

A potential U.S.-DPRK summit this year has emerged as a new focus in the relationship, with President Donald Trump stepp...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
In the bear’s paw: How Europeans can loosen Russia’s grip on Belarus

Russia’s growing military intervention in Belarus poses a frontline security challenge for Europe. The EU needs to devel...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
North Korea launches barrage of short-range missiles from Pyongyang

North Korea test-launched around 10 or more ballistic missiles from Pyongyang at around 5 p.m. KST on Thursday, accordin...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
War: Watt Is It Good For?

Military analysts are captivated by how the material nature of war is transforming in Ukraine. Unmanned systems have cap...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
China’s Military Says AI Can’t Replace Commanders. Xi Is Testing That

For years, the Chinese military’s own newspaper has been making a promise it may no longer be able to keep. Whenever the...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
Wong 'outraged' at Israeli decision to not criminally investigate Zomi Frankcom killing – video

'Australia is outraged by the Israeli government's decision to not pursue any criminal proceedings against those respons...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
The anti-ballistic missile shortage

In six months of on-again, off-again fighting with Iran, the United States has effectively exhausted its supply of heavy...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
Russian greenhouse operator plans to hire 50 North Korean workers as students

A former state-run Russian farm is seeking to bring 50 North Korean men and women to work at its greenhouse as “student ...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
How AI Could Hollow Out the U.S. Military

The best soldiers know how to think for themselves.

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
Australia’s AI future relies on our scientific capability

This week is National Science Week. When the Minister for Industry, Senator Tim Ayres, launched it at Questacon, he put ...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
Trump says he’ll meet Kim this year, despite Pyongyang denying communication

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he plans to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, despite Pyongyan...

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.

No location · Aug 20, 2026 · Wedgetail
Fault Lines – Putin’s Kurils trip, US’s carrier gap, China’s NZ espionage

Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actio...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
The ‘Extinct Volcanoes’ Problem: Why Unit Strength Is Not Combat Power

More than a century ago, Aleksandr Svechin warned against mistaking formations that still existed on paper for units tha...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Space Force Funding Could Be Record High, If Congress Agrees

The Administration is requesting $71 billion for the U.S. Space Force in FY2027, more than twice what it has now. An ana...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
No-Go for Katalyst’s Reboost of NASA’s Swift Observatory

Katalyst Space and NASA concluded today that reboosting the Swift Observatory with Katalyst’s LINK spacecraft will not b...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Who controls the Pacific’s communications?

Submarine cables, social media algorithms and AI systems all shape whether Pacific information reaches its audience — an...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Working with Australia, India should focus on South Asia’s digital transformation

India needs to pay greater attention to South Asia’s digital transformation as part of its regional strategy. Digital in...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Bosnia’s high representative succession dispute exposes a deeper transatlantic rift

A deadlock over Bosnia and Herzegovina's next high representative reflects competing US and EU visions for the country a...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Inside Iran’s Wartime Regime

Afshon Ostovar, one of the leading experts on Iran and the host of the members-only podcast The Iran Reckoning, is joine...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Pentagon rebuffed repeated requests for Golden Dome brief: CBO

David Mosher, head of the Congressional Budget Office’s National Security Directorate, stressed that the watchdog office...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, July 28–29, 2026

Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, July 28–29, 2026

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
The view from South Korea on Trump scaling back joint military exercises

Seoul-based Atlantic Council experts weigh in on how US president’s decision to cut short military training is being vie...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers

In 2024 and 2025, we reassessed remote Spectre attacks on our Workers infrastructure. We share details about the new att...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Exclusive: Linux Foundation's Akrites to Go Live in September

The Linux Foundation's Akrites initiative will become operational in September, when it will begin accepting AI-powered ...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
How Ukraine’s strikes on Russian warehouses became a problem in Kyrgyzstan

Producers as far afield as Central Asia have been affected by Ukraine’s drones attacks on the e-commerce giant.

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
MaaS Campaign Combines ClickFix, ErrTraffic and Cruciferra

eSentire uncovered a malware campaign combining ClickFix lures with ErrTraffic and Cruciferra

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Kim Yo Jong denies Trump-Kim contact, dismisses scale back of military drills

Kim Jong Un’s influential sister Kim Yo Jong has seemingly denied U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that he is in cont...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Middle powers are reshaping the Indo-Pacific, too

The contest between Washington and Beijing isn’t the whole story.

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
An Australian gift of guns to PNG must not end up in the wrong hands

Before handing PNG thousands more rifles, Australia must prove the armouries meant to store them are secure.

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
New Delhi’s Mecca Pact calculus

Pakistan reads the Mecca Pact as deterrence – India reads it as one more variable to manage.

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
China risk returns in American bond markets

China doesn’t have to tank the US bond market, just hike it up a little bit to make Washington concede on a given day.

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Grandoreiro Resurfaces in Mexico With New DLL Sideloading Campaign

Grandoreiro is active after its 2024 disruption, with Mexico now accounting for 40% of detections

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
Longer wells boost Permian crude oil and natural gas production

Well operators in the Permian region of western Texas and eastern New Mexico are getting more oil and gas out of the gro...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail
OpenAI Tightens AI Safeguards Following Hugging Face Incident

OpenAI is strengthening safeguards for its most advanced AI models, citing growing risks as frontier systems gain more p...

No location · Aug 19, 2026 · Wedgetail

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