New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs

2026-08-14T07:23:51Z2cadc80735e78f0bf09925311198907d82fce33fe7093b286a18871d4602011c
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A security-news digest covering state-sponsored espionage and AI-assisted phishing, ransomware and extortion incidents, exposed credentials and cloud keys, software and hardware vulnerabilities, critical-infrastructure attacks, data breaches, supply-chain and signing-key exposure, mobile-network abuse, DDoS campaigns, and emerging risks from autonomous AI agents. Several reports describe active exploitation or significant compromise, including Microsoft vulnerabilities, N-able customer-network access, Metabase zero-day exploitation, ransomware, and theft of sensitive defense, healthcare, and##

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theregister_security
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2026-08-14T07:23:51Z
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