Troops’ phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries
2026-05-29T07:23:56Z•064c6f43a93d32a92548faf5a99f04991dfb5f6977f7227e0bc838f2b6a10840
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What happened
A batch of The Register security stories highlights a surge in high-impact incidents and emerging threats: military personnel’s smartphones leaked location data via commercial tracking services; a disgruntled researcher threatened public dumps of multiple Windows 0‑days (three reportedly actively exploited); multiple high-severity vulnerabilities and rapid exploit activity (Drupal critical patch warning, NGINX 'Rift' probes/exploitation, a Linux kernel flaw exposing root-only files, and a Cisco multi-tenant Secure Workload admin bug); large-scale breaches and crimeware activity (Carnival data泄
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