Former Air Force officer arrested for conspiring with hacker to provide flight training to Chinese military
2026-03-04T22:43:38Z•05a121cab11a8eedc75dc11b12faf38330760cb0f7b91d3ba13ff1134f362b3c
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What happened
A batch of stories highlights escalating national-security and cyber incidents: a former U.S. Air Force officer was arrested for allegedly conspiring with a hacker to provide combat flight training to the Chinese military; Senator Wyden blocked the Senate confirmation of the nominee to lead U.S. Cyber Command/NSA citing insufficient background; the founder of the Intellexa consortium and three associates were sentenced in Greece over a high-profile spyware scandal; Google disrupted a China-linked cyber‑espionage campaign that targeted at least 53 government and telecom organizations across 42+
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