The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
2026-05-29T20:52:12Z•f487c329cef13e6a8b4cf4d6921a8b529ac2c6d5c25d23d90fe3bff7514d0e2c
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What happened
A batch of Wired security stories covering high-impact privacy, supply-chain, and national-security threats: US military phone location data long exposed troops to tracking and targeting after the Pentagon failed to adopt simple mitigations; hotel reservation-hijacking scams reportedly used customer records from 350+ hotels for realistic spear-phishing; TeamPCP has been conducting a large-scale software supply-chain poisoning campaign affecting many organizations (including GitHub); Foxconn suffered a ransomware attack underscoring industrial supply-chain risk; Iran’s near-90-day internet cut—
Why it matters
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- wired_security
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- f487c329cef13e6a8b4cf4d6921a8b529ac2c6d5c25d23d90fe3bff7514d0e2c
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- 2026-05-29T20:52:12Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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