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𝐏𝐡𝐃 @warstudies @KingsCollegeLon Previously @pertevniyal @NDU_EDU Master of Strategic Intelligence @NationalIntelU | Lately @CFR_org | #OSINT #ELINT #GEOINT

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

❗️🚨 An Israeli company has backdoored hundreds of millions of households through countless Smart TV apps, and they're quietly turning Samsung and LG TVs into exit nodes for AI web-scraping. Your TV is relaying strangers' web traffic from your home IP, your bandwidth, your address attached to whatever those scraping jobs touch.

Roku, Fire TV and Google TV banned the practice. Samsung and LG didn't. The culprit is Bright Data's proxy SDK, which rides inside Tizen and webOS apps, 200+ on webOS alone. Datacenter IPs get blocked, home IPs don't.

Include Security reverse-engineered the SDK and found its relay protocol has no message signing, authentication, or device attestation. Their words: less secure than typical malware command-and-control.

To make things worse, they found that in iOS the relay tunnel binds straight to the physical network interface, so it routes around any VPN the user is running.

Bright Data's config also ships per-country tiers. Devices in Uzbekistan and Oman are cleared to relay down to 1% battery, with data caps up to 60x the worldwide default.

Before the BaCkDoOrEd replies land: technically you agreed. In practice you were enrolled into a global proxy network you were never given the information to refuse. And these exit nodes drag down your IP's reputation, potentially leaving you with blocks from providers.

[DMX Defence @dmxdefence]

Drone growth is forcing Türkiye to rethink airspace control.

New UAV regulation could shape how unmanned systems operate safely in civilian and military airspace.

Full Details Are Available in Our Report 👇🏻 https://t.co/wxdgQe2hyA

[𝐁𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐠 @KidonMesser]

Great heroism by Soviet Colonel Oleg Penkovsky during Cuba missile crisis

https://t.co/0vV8jCV0Ht

[CSIS @CSIS]

The Middle East remains a hotbed of terrorism, but the most capable groups have been regionally focused rather than targeting the U.S. homeland.

Read the Global Terrorism Threat Assessment: https://t.co/Pki5YY9LAp

[CTC at West Point @CTCWP]

May Analysis: “Mohammad Baqer al-Saadi: Profiling an IRGC and Iraqi Militia Operative” by Crispin Smith and Michael Knights
https://t.co/ybQa3QVWA0

[Cavid #FreeUlviyya @cavidaga]

An interesting, newly declassified Turkish intelligence report from Atatürk era! In 1932, Turkey's intelligence service in Paris filed a secret report. The subject was a clandestine meeting between the deposed Ottoman Caliph and the owner of a Paris-based Armenian newspaper.

[Syria Justice Archive @SyJusticeArc]

#Syria | #Turkey: A circulated document reveals a project to build a new port in northern #Latakia by Turkey, under the name “South Mediterranean Port.”

The highlighted area is populated by Alawite villages, while the Turkmen villages are located to the north of it.

Note: We were unable to verify the authenticity of the document from reliable sources.

[Paweł Wójcik 🦋 @SaladinAlDronni]

In a remote desert, China is building an anti-nuclear defense the world has never seen - Reuters investigation.
https://t.co/tYRO6Alzfq

[Covert Intel and Operations @covert_intel]

CIA makes new push to recruit Chinese military officers as informants https://t.co/4TEkrJsrdD

[Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01]

China overhauls world’s biggest surveillance network with advanced AI
https://t.co/CZguWkx84V

[Thomas Rid @RidT]

This is a very important story on a recent evolution in tradecraft in Russian active measures, by @Martinlaineolen and team. I have also seen the full original leak, a few additional observations later today https://t.co/awiqQRp6fN

[Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01]

The UK and other western nations are running out of time to maintain their technological edge over China, the UK’s top cyber spy is set to warn Wednesday, urging businesses to work with intelligence officials in order to stay ahead https://t.co/yhkxSp04GC

[CovertAction Magazine @CovertActionMag]

Declassified Government Documents Show Justice Department Indictment of Raúl Castro Advances False Claims https://t.co/U6MwnOjf68 via @CovertActionMag

[Michael Smith @MickWSmith]

Kremlin appoints cyber executive with alleged GRU ties to Security Council role | The Record from Recorded Future News https://t.co/SXGHw7BSd0

[Covert Intel and Operations @covert_intel]

Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle | OCCRP. The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services. https://t.co/V28O7Agza5

[VSquare @VSquare_Project]

A secret department inside one of Russia's most prestigious universities has been quietly producing hackers, saboteurs, and spies for the GRU. Now 2,000+ leaked documents reveal exactly where its graduates end up — and what they do there. https://t.co/EBC2DLb8HC

[Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01]

Revealed: The secret suburban life of Britain’s greatest Cold War spy
https://t.co/2LMrSsAVpC

[The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social @mitpress]

Newly declassified CIA and British intelligence files reveal that the KGB systematically used staged same-sex “compromise” operations against Western diplomats, journalists, and scholars during the Cold War. https://t.co/i6Ch0vrsJ7

[War Flash @WarFlash_2630]

Turkish Navy Special Operations Forces SAT Commandos and Naval Forces EOD Unit SAS Performing a Hostage Rescue Demonstration at the Teknofest Blue Homeland Event at the İstanbul Shipyard Command on August 30, 2025.

[Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01]

Moscow’s German front company: How the Russian military bought European https://t.co/Ruw5Hwn3VC