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Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence An Iranian girls school that took a direct hit on the first day of the war had a yearslong online presence, including dozens of photos of the children and their activities, before it was bombed along ...

The girls' school likely destroyed by an American missile had colorful murals *visible from space* as far back as 2018.

By @pearswick.press & Ryan McNeil:

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Pentagon probe points to U.S. missile hitting Iranian school A military assessment suggests a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile was responsible for at least 165 deaths at an Iranian girls' school, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly...

"Congress created a special Pentagon office to prevent the accidental targeting of civilians but it was dramatically scaled back by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth soon after he took office last year."

www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

A military investigation has determined the U.S. carried out the deadly Tomahawk strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials & others familiar with the preliminary findings. Latest w/ Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Tyler Pager, Helene Cooper

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

How I infiltrated phishing panels targeting European banks and tracked down their operators Good phishers clearly aren't always good programmers.

Security researcher Inti De Ceukelaire has traced a phishing operation targeting European banks to an individual in his early 20s from Morocco

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They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE

Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago, according to ​a...

"The hacker expressed disgust at the presence of child abuse images on the device and left a message threatening to turn its owner over to the FBI, the person said."

too wild, what a story

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Edition 11 – One mistake ties together more than 100 domains Hey there, Hakan here. This week's edition is going to be a short one about mistakes. Without those, it'd be a whole lot harder to do my job. When trying to...

Short newsletter item about one mistake from disinfo operations #Doppelgänger that makes it possible to tie together >100 domains

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Oh look... ChatGPT sniffing Russian disinformation up its nose 700 times in 5 days

Exactly what researchers have warned about for more than a year but have been told to take a hike

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Hakan Tanriverdi with a great, brief writeup on linking 100+ Doppelganger/SDA domains thanks to a single unique string in their Wordpress setup.

Highly recommend you go follow/subscribe if you have not already. He's been putting out fantastic cyber work.

Shoutout to the reader/researcher who reached out to say that all of the four su-domains showing up are registered with the same mail address

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Edition 11 – One mistake ties together more than 100 domains Hey there, Hakan here. This week's edition is going to be a short one about mistakes. Without those, it'd be a whole lot harder to do my job. When trying to...

Short newsletter item about one mistake from disinfo operations #Doppelgänger that makes it possible to tie together >100 domains

buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

From a Sophisticated Browser-Extension Supply-Chain Compromise to a VibeCoded Twist: A Chrome Extension as the Initial Access Vector for a Broader Malware Chain Independent technical analysis of a Chrome extension compromise, fake update chain, and Windows-stage malware activity.

"A formerly legitimate Featured Chrome extension (ShotBird) was turned into a remote-controlled malware channel after an apparent ownership transfer"

Curious if this is another case of an extension being sold on ExtensionHub again? A place to watch...

monxresearch-sec.github.io/shotbird-ext...

The mystery of a globetrotting iPhone-hacking toolkit Tools used in a series of hacking campaigns by hackers in Russia, Ukraine, and China may have originated inside U.S. government contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned.

"Two former employees of government contractor L3Harris told TechCrunch that Coruna was, at least in part, developed by the company’s hacking and surveillance tech division, Trenchant."

techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/a...

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

“You think that if they knew about the extent of the data collection, no one would dare to use the glasses”.

www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

How Trump’s War in Iran Has Echoes of Putin and Ukraine

"both pro- and anti-Kremlin bloggers from Russia started referring to Mr. Trump’s plan as “Tehran in three days.” It was a reference to “Kyiv in three days,” the ironic shorthand used to describe the Kremlin’s hubris in believing that Ukraine would quickly crumble."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

“We have nothing for you on this at this time,” CENTCOM said.

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Exclusive | China Suspected in Breach of FBI Surveillance Network The FBI said it has addressed ‘suspicious activities’ on its networks.

If China is confirmed to be responsible for the breach, it would signal the latest intrusion by Beijing’s hackers of computer systems related to law-enforcement surveillance orders, which contain highly sensitive material.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Russia Secretly Sharing Location of U.S. Targets With Iran, U.S. Officials Say In a sign of deepening ties, satellite data from Moscow could help Tehran hit American forces around the Middle East.

"The former Russian intelligence officer, who had been briefed on the topic, said Russia was only giving a limited amount of intelligence information derived from its satellites to Iran"

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

A huge tip of the hat to the NYTimes, the CBC, the BBC, Reuters and others for being absolutely all over this school bombing and piecing together the truth of what happened -- www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Bellingcat’s New Tool to Explore Historical and Spatial Flight Data Turnstone can visualise historical trends in flight data or filter them by geography, aircraft type and other parameters.

Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict? Context is everything. That’s why we built Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical flight data to allow researchers to explore flight patterns over time and in specific locations. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is playing a key role in the U.S. military’s campaign in Iran, amid a bitter fight with the Pentagon over the terms of its use in war.

Not even mentioned in passing is the school that was bombed.

Given that it was adjacent to local Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) barracks, the "precise location" provided by Claude seems to be the essence.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Operation Diebstahl: „Nächste Zielperson: Frau Anna Thalhammer“ Jan Marsalek soll Taschendiebe auf profil-Chefredakteurin Anna Thalhammer angesetzt haben. Die genauen Anweisungen zur Operation Diebstahl wurden im Prozess gegen Egisto Ott vorgelesen.

"Die Chats zeigen, wie detailliert die Informationen waren, die Marsalek zur Verfügung standen – und wie penibel der Österreicher Angriffe auf heimische Beamte und profil-Chefredakteurin Anna Thalhammer geplant hatte. "

www.profil.at/investigativ...

(S+) Iran: So gnadenlos späht das Regime die eigene Bevölkerung aus – ein Insider packt aus US-Präsident Trump fordert die Iraner auf, das Regime zu stürzen. Doch die Führung in Teheran hat einen gigantischen Überwachungsapparat erschaffen. SPIEGEL-Recherchen gewähren Einblick in das Spähsys...

Leaked documents provide a frightful look into the Iranian regime's surveillance apparatus.

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#EyesOfIran : breaking the code of Iran’s surveillance system. 🇮🇷👁️ [New investigation] #EyesOfIran : breaking the code of Iran’s surveillance system. War, unrest… and a sophisticated mass-surveillance weapon. ➡️ Today, we’re able to reveal that the…

🇮🇷👁️[New investigation] #EyesOfIran : breaking the code of Iran’s surveillance system.

War, unrest… and a sophisticated mass-surveillance weapon.

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Iran: So gnadenlos späht Regime die eigene Bevölkerung aus – Ein Insider packt aus US-Präsident Trump fordert die Iraner auf, das Regime zu stürzen. Doch die Führung in Teheran hat einen gigantischen Überwachungsapparat erschaffen. SPIEGEL-Recherchen gewähren Einblick in das Spähsystem der Mullahs.

US-Präsident Trump fordert die Iraner auf, das Regime zu stürzen. Doch die Führung in Teheran hat einen gigantischen Überwachungsapparat erschaffen. SPIEGEL-Recherchen gewähren Einblick in das Spähsystem der Mullahs.