Attacks on GPS Spike Amid US and Israeli War on Iran
2026-03-04T22:54:22Z•c2c328a96fb87dc93e5e601beb4ce1102b363e069895f0f1da5a8c7399b2304e
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What happened
WIRED security roundup driven by the US–Israel strikes on Iran: maritime navigation systems (GPS) have been disrupted—impacting roughly 1,100 ships in the Middle East—while related information operations (a hacked prayer app pushing ‘surrender’ messages) and conventional/missile engagements are reported. The feed also highlights large-scale civilian cyber and privacy incidents (data-broker breaches tied to ~$21B in identity-theft losses; a publicly exposed trove of Social Security numbers), widespread IoT vulnerabilities (thousands of camera-enabled robot vacuums hacked; Ring camera privacy b/
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