How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers

2026-03-05T08:52:14Za35dfbcc077aea46c9fa0ee35aa0eea41699b5303128f3369e00eb55e621ecb6
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What happened

A batch of WIRED security stories highlights multiple high-impact threats across mobile, maritime, IoT, and national-security domains. A sophisticated iPhone-hacking toolkit (reported as “Coruna”)—likely originally developed for a government—appears to have infected tens of thousands of phones and is now in the hands of foreign actors and criminals. Lawmakers are probing susceptibility to electromagnetic and acoustic side-channel (TEMPEST-like) leaks that can exfiltrate data from devices. Concurrently, GPS jamming/spoofing incidents have spiked, affecting ~1,100 ships, and app/infrastructure‑s

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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2026-03-05T08:52:14Z
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