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A source told reporter Renee Dudley something she found hard to believe: that Microsoft was running tech support for the Department of Defense through China, the country’s biggest cybersecurity adversary. The arrangement was called “digital escorting.” She thought it sounded like a conspiracy theory — until she started looking into it. This is the story of what she found and how her investigation changed government policy.

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How HollowGraph Operates  On July 20, 2026, Group-IB security researchers released a study describing an implant known as HollowGraph that converts a hacked Microsoft 365 calendar into hidden communication channel....

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President Donald Trump used a nationally televised address Thursday evening to release intelligence that he said showed American voting systems are vulnerable to foreign attack and that China acquired data on 220 million U.S. voters. He accused officials within the U.S. intelligence community of suppressing those threats and concealing the danger from him and the public.

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Donald Trump’s latest prime‑time address on “election vulnerabilities” was billed as the moment he would finally vindicate his claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Instead, it showed how his second term is organized around relitigating that defeat and pre‑emptively casting doubt on the next one. The facts his administration released, the intelligence record on foreign interference, and the comparative‑politics literature on how democracies remain stable all tell a different story from the one he is selling.

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Last night during his national address, President Trump claimed that key documents he ordered declassified demonstrate that the US Intelligence Community (IC) withheld or otherwise soft-pedaled evidence of foreign election interference or voting machine vulnerabilities. The documents at issue—released in a process that can be charitably described as irregular at best—tell a different story.

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Cybersecurity agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States issued a call to action on Monday for cyber defenders. The message was clear: artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful weapon for cyber attackers; defenders must act urgently to improve their cyber defenses.

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Both foes and allies have targeted the Balochistan Police force in Pakistan for at least two years, according to SentinelOne.

The post China, India-Linked Hackers Both Targeted Same Pakistani Police Force appeared first on SecurityWeek.