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■■■□□ Cyber Criminals Exploit Open-Source Tools to Compromise Financial Institutions Across Africa. Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a series of cyber attacks targeting financial organizations across Africa since at least July 2023 using a mix of open-source and publicly available tools to maintain access. https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/cyber-criminals-exploit-open-source.html

■■■□□📊 How Big Tech enabled Israel’s Iran killing spree. This article is based on information provided a political think tank and may not be accurate. 🤩🤩 Israel killed 4 top IRGC commanders & 9 nuclear scientists in the opening salvo of its attack on Iran 🤩🤩. While Iran has made impressive strides toward technological independence…

■■■■□ United States: Sinaloa cartel hacked security cameras to track and kill FBI informants, US says. Hacker working for cartel run by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was also able to access phone records of an FBI legal attaché at the US embassy in Mexico City. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/27/sinaloa-cartel-fbi-hackers

■■■□□ Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet on entirety as ISP throttles page load to 16KB which are behind Cloudflare. https://blog.cloudflare.com/russian-internet-users-are-unable-to-access-the-open-internet/

■■■■□ EW (electronic warfare): “Jamming no longer works” — The Ukrainian commander who saw tomorrow’s drone war arrive early. https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/26/ukraine-jamming-fails-fiber-drones-russia/

■■□□□ OSINT report: Iran Update Special Report, June 24, 2025. https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-special-report-june-24-2025-evening-edition

■■■■□ Great Scott Gadgets Unveils the Bigger, Better, Wider-Range HackRF Pro Software-Defined Radio. The HackRF One has a successor, boasting a wider frequency range, improved performance, lower power draw, and more. https://www.hackster.io/news/great-scott-gadgets-unveils-the-bigger-better-wider-range-hackrf-pro-software-defined-radio-c97bc78841b1

■□□□□ Israeli officials said Iran is exploiting security cameras to guide missile strikes. https://therecord.media/iran-espionage-israeli-security-cameras-missile-attacks

■■■□□ 🇮🇷🇮🇱 In their latest phishing campaigns, Iranian APT Educated Manticore poses as cybersecurity researchers and executives to target top tech academics in Israel: 🔗 Fake Google Meet meetings 🌐 Phishing kits as Single Page App with React https://research.checkpoint.com/2025/iranian-educated-manticore-targets-leading-tech-academics/

■■■■■ Typhoon-like gang slinging TLS certificate ‘signed’ by the Los Angeles Police Department. Chinese crew built 1,000+ device network that runs on home devices then targets critical infrastructure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/23/lapdog_orb_network_attack_campaign/