Defence

Kaspersky has conducted an investigation into DeathNote, a cluster belonging to the notorious Lazarus group, which has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. Beginning with cryptocurrency-related attacks in 2019, by the end of 2022, DeathNote was responsible for targeted campaigns against IT and defence companies in Europe, Latin America, South Korea, and Africa. The latest report from Kaspersky tracks the evolution of DeathNote's targets and the development of its tools, techniques, and procedures over…

Microsoft has announced that it has launched Open AI's GPT-4 based "Security Copilot" for cyber defence. As per the company, the new tool can quickly detect and respond to threats and better understands the threat landscape overall. This new tool is currently available through private preview. "Security Copilot will combine Microsoft's vast threat intelligence footprint with industry leading expertise to augment the work of security professionals through an easy-to-use AI assistant." the company said in its…

In 1857, in the wake of the Indian mutiny, a British officer, Lt George Cracklow, described in a letter home what happened to captured rebels. “The prisoners were marched up to the guns... and lashed to the muzzles,” he wrote. “The guns exploded... I could hardly see for the smoke for about 2 seconds when down came something with a thud about 5 yards from me. This was the head and neck of one of the men... On each side of the guns, about 10 yards, lay the arms torn out at the shoulders.”Nigel Biggar, in his new history of…

European tech companies are drawing huge funding in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, venture capital firms are investing record amounts in European tech companies that serve the defense sector, which had long been off-limits to them. Governments all over the continent have increased military defense spending in recent years, investing billions of euros to develop and modernize their armed forces. Private investment in defense-related tech companies has grown in…

PTI New Delhi, December 14 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has said that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) should approach the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for accessing a part of its optical fibre network or suitable bandwidth to extend telecom coverage in the far-flung areas of Himachal Pradesh. The regulator has recommended that in Lahaul and Spiti, Mandi, Kullu and Chamba districts, the villages that are…

Turkish President Erdogan also says the government would increase the country's oil production to 100,000 barrels per day next year. "We will continue our struggle with determination until we include Türkiye among the top 10 economies of the world," Erdogan says.…

Ukraine has received its first delivery of NASAMS air defence systems which will "significantly strengthen" its armed forces, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said. Ukraine has received its first delivery of NASAMS air defence systems which will "significantly strengthen" its armed forces, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Monday. White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said last month the United States was accelerating the shipment of the sophisticated NASAMS systems to Ukraine after…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy continued his appeals to leaders of the Group of Seven nations for more air defence capabilities as the G7 vowed to support Kyiv for "as long as it takes." NATO said it was closely monitoring Russia's nuclear forces following a string of Russian battlefield defeats in Ukraine and that the allies were also boosting security around key infrastructure after recent attacks on Baltic Sea gas pipelines. Russian missiles again hit Ukrainian cities but with less intensity than on Monday,…

I once wrote a book about Boris Johnson and promptly decided I would rather pull out my teeth than do it again. As a result, I must confess to a certain admiration for an author who, in his fourth volume about the recently departed prime minister, still finds himself thrilled by that man’s ability to “shock and enrage the Establishment”.While the rest of us obsess about impending economic collapse, Gimson exults in the perceived triumphs of an Old Etonian charlatan over pitiful ranks of “moralists”, the “virtuous” (they…

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday in the world's first test of a planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday meteorite collision with Earth.Humanity's first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body played out in a NASA webcast from the mission operations center outside Washington, DC, 10 months after DART was launched.The livestream showed images taken by DART's camera as the cube-shaped "impactor" vehicle, no…