Former Air Force officer arrested for conspiring with hacker to provide flight training to Chinese military
2026-03-04T22:45:23Z•60cfe58a127cc11fc25f380716cfd18af8b636a02c29e2faf3a03a0f8bcf7bc3
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What happened
A set of cybersecurity and national security stories: a former U.S. Air Force officer was arrested after allegedly providing combat flight training to the Chinese military, raising concerns about insider/transfer-of-knowledge threats; Sen. Wyden blocked the confirmation of a nominee to lead U.S. Cyber Command/NSA over readiness and background concerns; the founder of the Intellexa spyware consortium and associates were sentenced in Greece for a major spyware scandal; Google disrupted a China-linked cyberespionage campaign that targeted at least 53 government and telecom organizations across 42
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