Saudi Leader Is Said to Push Trump to Continue Iran War in Recent Calls
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been urging President Trump to keep the United States engaged in a military campaign against Iran, describing the conflict as a historic opportunity to reshape the Middle East. In recent calls, MBS argued that Iran’s hard‑line regime poses a long‑term threat to Gulf security and must be dismantled. While Israel welcomes a weakened Iran, Saudi officials fear a collapsed state could destabilize the region. U.S. officials caution that an extended war could invite Iranian attacks on Saudi oil assets and entangle America in a protracted conflict.
Treasury Asks Whether Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Should Bolster Cyber Coverage
The U.S. Treasury Department has opened a public comment period to consider expanding the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP) to cover cyber‑related losses stemming from acts of terrorism. The agency will incorporate feedback into a mandatory report to Congress due...
ZeroEyes Launches ZeroLink to Deliver AI Gun Detection and Situational Awareness Anytime, Anywhere
ZeroEyes announced ZeroLink, an off‑network AI gun‑detection solution that can be installed on any digital camera, from light poles to vehicles. The system leverages Lanner’s Edge AI inference computers to analyze video locally and transmit alerts through the ZeroEyes Operations...
Czech Police Arrest 3 over Arson at Drone Warehouse Supplying Ukraine
Czech police arrested three suspects, including Czech and U.S. nationals, after a fire destroyed LPP Holding's warehouse that supplied autonomous drones to Ukraine. The blaze, deemed suspected arson and linked to terrorism, caused no injuries but razed the facility in...
India, China, and How Not to Save the Brahmaputra
China is rapidly expanding its upstream hydraulic infrastructure on the Yarlung Tsangpo, highlighted by the 60 GW Great Bend project, while withholding hydrological data from India. New Delhi has responded not with multilateral diplomacy but with a “dam‑for‑dam” strategy, exemplified by the 20,000 MW...
Spain Signs Indra–Hanwha Deal for K9-Based Artillery Systems
Indra Group and South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace signed a binding agreement to develop a K9‑based family of self‑propelled artillery for the Spanish Armed Forces, delivering 128 tracked guns plus 120 ammunition‑resupply, 11 command‑and‑control and 21 recovery vehicles. The program includes...
Lockheed Fires HELLFIRE From GRIZZLY Containerized Launcher
Lockheed Martin successfully completed the first live‑fire and vertical‑launch test of a Hellfire missile from its new GRIZZLY containerized launcher. The system fits inside a standard 10‑foot Tricon container and was developed in just six months using existing M299 launcher...
Czech Firm TRL Drones Introduces GCS Counter-Drone System
Czech firm TRL Drones has launched a Ground Control Station (GCS) that fuses sensor data, AI analysis and autonomous interceptor drones to provide a kinetic, hard‑kill layer against unmanned aerial threats. The system can shift from electronic jamming to physical...
U.S. Army Awards Anduril $20 Billion AI Battlefield Tech Contract
The U.S. Army awarded Anduril Industries a 10‑year, firm‑fixed‑price IDIQ contract worth up to $20 billion, consolidating more than 120 prior agreements into a single procurement vehicle. The deal centers on Anduril’s open‑architecture Lattice software, which fuses data from drones, radars,...
Leonardo DRS Joins ATSP5 Emerging Systems Program
Leonardo DRS was selected as one of 13 firms for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Technology Support Program V (ATSP5), a 10‑year indefinite‑delivery, indefinite‑quantity contract with a ceiling exceeding $25 billion. The award gives DRS a new vehicle to compete for...
What Iran Wants From the War
Iran has abandoned its long‑standing strategy of strategic patience, adopting an offensive deterrence doctrine after the 12‑day war with Israel. The new posture relies on rapid, punitive strikes across the Persian Gulf, leveraging control of the Strait of Hormuz and...
New Lumu Defender Capabilities Provide Visibility Beyond the Network
Lumu announced major upgrades to its Lumu Defender NDR platform, extending its Continuous Compromise Assessment beyond the network to endpoints, cloud workloads, and user identities. The enhanced solution now correlates malicious network traffic with specific devices, accounts, and cloud services,...
Epirus, GDLS and Kodiak Develop New Counter-Drone System
Epirus, General Dynamics Land Systems and Kodiak AI unveiled the Leonidas Autonomous Ground Vehicle, a mobile counter‑UAS platform that pairs Epirus’ high‑power microwave weapon with Kodiak’s autonomous driving system on a commercial‑grade truck. The system can operate fully autonomously or...
First Welded 3D-Printed Component Installed on US Navy’s Virginia-Class Sub
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has inspected, tested, and installed the first welded additively manufactured copper‑nickel flange on the Virginia‑class submarine USS Washington, marking a historic milestone for US Navy maintenance. The component, produced via 3D printing, underwent full weld qualification and...
Optical Surfaces Ltd Targets Aerospace Surveillance with Ritchey-Chrétien Optics
On March 10, 2026 Optical Surfaces Ltd announced its Ritchey‑Chrétien (RC) telescope optics as a high‑precision solution for military and aerospace surveillance. The company manufactures hyperbolic mirrors up to 700 mm diameter with surface accuracy of λ/20 P‑V and sub‑nanometer microroughness,...
Vigil: The First Open-Source AI SOC Built with a LLM-Native Architecture
Vigil, launched at RSA Conference 2026, is the first open‑source AI‑driven Security Operations Center built on a native LLM architecture. It ships under an Apache 2.0 license with 13 specialized AI agents, more than 30 integrations and over 7,200 detection rules...
Getac Announces CommandCore: Remote Drone Control Solution for Professionals Operating in Challenging Environments
Getac unveiled CommandCore, a rugged ground control station that unifies drone, surface and ground vehicle operations for defense, public safety and utilities. The solution pairs Getac’s hardened tablets and laptops—such as the ZX80 Android tablet and S510 Windows workstation—with interchangeable...
How a Large Bank Uses AI Digital Twins for Threat Hunting
JPMorgan Chase is deploying an AI‑driven system that creates digital fingerprints and digital twins to monitor employee and AI‑agent behavior across its global workforce. The technology flags anomalous actions, rates their malicious potential, and contextualizes them against external events, aiming...
CyberProof Unveils Reveal360 Hub for Security and Business Outcomes
CyberProof, a UST company, launched CDC Reveal360, a centralized visibility hub that consolidates threat, exposure, defense, and asset data into role‑specific workspaces. The platform delivers continuous insights into security posture, service performance, and operational outcomes for CISOs, security managers, and...
North Korea’s Risky Bet on Military AI
North Korea announced at the Workers’ Party Congress that it will embed artificial intelligence across all branches of the Korean People’s Army, aiming to accelerate decision‑making and improve unmanned systems. The plan faces major hurdles, including severe GPU shortages, limited...
EV Battery Startup Pivots to Defense Industry Amid Iran War, Weak Electric Vehicle Market
Sion Power, an Arizona battery startup led by former GM executive Pamela Fletcher, is shifting its focus from electric‑vehicle batteries to high‑energy lithium‑metal cells for defense drones. The company touts energy densities above 500 Wh/kg, far surpassing current lithium‑ion packs, and...
TKMS and ST Engineering Explore Joint Submarine Service Center in Singapore
German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and Singapore’s ST Engineering Marine have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore a joint submarine service and maintenance centre in Singapore. The agreement, witnessed by Germany’s and Singapore’s defence ministers, targets long‑term readiness...
LiteLLM Python Package Compromised by Supply-Chain Attack
A malicious .pth file was discovered in the LiteLLM 1.82.8 wheel on PyPI, automatically executing a credential‑stealing script whenever the Python interpreter starts, without any import of the library. The payload gathers environment variables, SSH keys, cloud provider credentials, and...
Nokod Security Wins Global InfoSec Awards During RSAC Conference 2026
Nokod secured the “Most Promising No‑Code Security” award at the 14th Global InfoSec Awards during RSAC 2026. The platform protects AI agents and applications built by citizen developers, offering enterprises full visibility and one‑click remediation. By monitoring low‑code and no‑code...
3.1 Million Impacted by QualDerm Data Breach
QualDerm Partners disclosed that a December 2025 cyber‑attack compromised the personal, medical, and health‑insurance records of more than 3.1 million individuals. Attackers accessed the network for two days, exfiltrating data from a limited set of systems before the breach was detected...
Rohde & Schwarz Amplifiers Enable High-Field Immunity Testing Expansion at IB Lenhardt Lab
IBL Lab GmbH, the DAkkS‑accredited EMC test facility of IB Lenhardt AG, has upgraded its high‑field immunity testing with a suite of Rohde & Schwarz amplifiers, including the BBA300‑FG180 covering 6‑18 GHz. The new configuration, featuring direct antenna mounting, pushes field strengths beyond...
The Hidden Cost of Cybersecurity Specialization: Losing Foundational Skills
Cybersecurity teams are increasingly specialized, but this focus erodes the foundational understanding needed to see the full risk picture. The loss of context leads to misaligned tool choices, fragmented risk communication, and slower incident response. Bryan Simon argues that without...
U.S. And Japan Agree On Quadrupling SM-3 Missile Production In Japan
The United States and Japan agreed to quadruple production of Standard Missile‑3 Block IIA missiles in Japan after a summit between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. The deal builds on Raytheon's $8.4 billion contract expansion and aims to...
AiStrike Launches Continuous Detection Engineering at RSA 2026
AiStrike unveiled Continuous Detection Engineering at RSA 2026, a platform that shifts security operations from reactive alert triage to proactive, detection‑as‑code optimization. The solution claims up to a 90% reduction in alert noise by continuously validating and refining detection rules...
Ghost Campaign Uses 7 Npm Packages to Steal Crypto Wallets and Credentials
Security researchers have identified a new "Ghost" campaign that distributes seven malicious npm packages under the author name mikilanjillo. The packages masquerade as popular React utilities and AI trading tools, prompting developers to enter their sudo password during a fabricated...
Xona Targets Real-Time Threat Response in OT Remote Access
Xona Systems unveiled an Active Defense capability that automatically reacts to suspicious behavior during OT remote‑access sessions. The feature links detection platforms to session‑level enforcement, enabling actions such as step‑up authentication, access limitation, or session termination in real time. Initially,...
Presidio Endeavor Sharpens Wisconsin National Guard Readiness
The Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs hosted the inaugural Presidio Endeavor wargame on March 11‑12, bringing together the state National Guard’s joint Army and Air staffs, emergency management officials, U.S. Northern Command and the National Guard Bureau. Designed by wargame...
DiY MANPADS? Low-Cost Launcher and Guided Rocket Prototype Built with Consumer Electronics and 3D Printed Parts
Los Angeles Valley College student Alisher Khojayev unveiled a proof‑of‑concept low‑cost rocket launcher and guided rocket built from consumer electronics and 3D‑printed PLA parts, costing roughly $96 in hardware. The system uses dual ESP32 microcontrollers, an MPU6050 IMU, GPS, compass,...
‘We Are Being Imaginative to Make Defence Appeal to Young People with New Skill Sets’
UK Air Marshal Tim Jones, newly appointed deputy chief of the defence staff for force development, told Parliament that recruitment for the Armed Forces has been difficult but is beginning to improve. He highlighted persistent shortages in cyber, engineering and...
No Successful Hacking of eGov App Despite 1,000 Daily Attempts — DICT
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) reported that its eGov mobile app has withstood over 1,000 daily cyber‑attack attempts, including spikes of 5,000‑6,000 attempts, without any successful breach. Officials attribute this resilience to multiple security layers, full‑data encryption,...
Critical Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Poised for Exploitation, Security Firms Warn
Citrix has issued emergency patches for a critical‑severity vulnerability, CVE‑2026‑3055 (CVSS 9.3), that enables an out‑of‑bounds read and sensitive memory leak in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway when configured as a SAML Identity Provider. The update also fixes CVE‑2026‑4368, a high‑severity...
Hanwha Ocean Enters Greek Naval Market Through Partnership with ONEX
South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean has signed a strategic teaming agreement with Greece’s ONEX Shipyards & Technologies, the nation’s largest shipbuilding and defense firm. The deal makes the two companies exclusive partners on submarine and other naval projects for the Hellenic...
Policy Paper: Defence Diplomacy Strategy
The United Kingdom has published its first Defence Diplomacy Strategy, fulfilling a pledge made in the June 2025 Strategic Defence Review. The strategy places a "NATO First" mindset at its core, seeking to deepen alliances across Europe, the Middle East and...
Dubai Is Burning: Why Russian Drone Proxies Are Fleeing the Gulf for a Gullible Europe
The February 2026 US‑Israel‑Iran war has turned the United Arab Emirates from a sanctuary into a battlefield, with missiles striking Dubai and Abu Dhabi infrastructure. Russian‑linked drone light‑show companies, which fled Western sanctions by setting up in UAE free‑trade zones, are...
Naval Group and METLEN Team up on Submarine and Frigate Projects
Naval Group and Greek defence supplier METLEN signed a Memorandum of Understanding on March 19, 2026, to explore joint submarine and FDI frigate projects for international customers. The MoU builds on METLEN’s existing role supplying key components for Naval Group’s...
Globe Turns over IMSI Catcher Detectors over to the NTC, CICC, CIDG to Help Fight Mobile Scams
Globe has transferred IMSI catcher detectors to the Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission, the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center, and the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group to strengthen the fight against mobile scams. The detectors enable real‑time identification and location of...
US-Iran War Updates March 24: Iranian Missile Hits Tel Aviv, IRGC Warns Israel Of Heavy Strikes (UPDATED)
On March 24, 2026, reports surfaced that an Iranian missile struck Tel Aviv, prompting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to warn Israel of further heavy strikes. Iranian official Mohammad‑Bagher Ghalibaf tweeted that no negotiations with the United States have...
Carrier Air Wing 7 Sees Command Change Ahead of Deployment on USS George H.W. Bush
Captain Matthew K. Lewis took command of Carrier Air Wing 7 on March 19, 2026, succeeding Captain Martin N. Fentress Jr. in an airborne ceremony at Naval Air Station Oceana. The wing, known as Team Freedom, is finalizing preparations for...
UAE-South Korea “Defense Pact” Rumors Resurface as Seoul Rushes Interceptor Missiles To Abu Dhabi
South Korea and the United Arab Emirates have accelerated their defense partnership, signing a $65 billion agreement that includes a $35 billion arms package. Amid the Iran war, Seoul air‑lifted about 30 Cheongung‑II interceptors from its own operational reserves to Abu Dhabi...
German Minister Says Trump's Iran Talks Announcement Could Mark Turning Point
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said President Donald Trump's recent announcement of talks with Iran could represent a turning point in the ongoing Middle East conflict. Trump posted on Truth Social that the United States and Iran held “very good...
Russian Drone Strike on Ukrainian Regional Train Kills Passenger (61)
A Russian FPV drone struck a Kharkiv regional electric train on March 24 at 05:20, killing a 61‑year‑old passenger and injuring two crew members who suffered acute stress. Ukrainian prosecutors have opened a pre‑trial investigation and classified the incident as...
Russia Intends to Deploy Additional Systems in Belarus
Russia plans to install four ground‑control stations for long‑range strike drones in Belarus, expanding a network first deployed in late 2025. The stations will enable rapid UAV‑guided attacks on Ukraine’s northern regions, from Kyiv to Volyn. Belarus, a long‑time Russian...
One in Five Lebanese Displaced in Three Weeks by Israel’s Invasion
Israel’s ground offensive in southern Lebanon has displaced roughly one million people, about 20 % of the country’s population, within three weeks. The operation aims to seize territory up to the Litani River and annex a third of Lebanon to the...
SBG Systems Unveils Stellar-40 INS for High-Vibration & Electronic Warfare Environments
SBG Systems has launched the Stellar-40 inertial navigation system, a tactical‑grade INS that blends a high‑performance IMU, GNSS receiver and advanced sensor‑fusion algorithms in a rugged, compact housing. The unit is engineered for extreme vibration, high dynamics and electronic‑warfare environments,...
Dutch Finance Ministry Hit By Hack
The Dutch Finance Ministry restricted access to several computer systems after detecting a hack on March 19. The intrusion affected internal processes in the policy department but left tax, customs and benefits services uninterrupted. Officials attribute the attack to the ShinyHunters...