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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability list is as follows – CVE-2021-22054 (CVSS score: 7.5) – A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Omnissa Workspace One UEM (formerly VMware Workspace One UEM) that
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Anthropic has launched an unprecedented lawsuit against the U.S. government after being designated a “supply chain risk“. The legal action, filed in a California federal court, targets the executive office of President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and 16 government agencies. The dispute centers on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s refusal to allow the military […]
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A malicious npm package, @openclaw-ai/openclawai, that impersonates the legitimate OpenClaw CLI while quietly deploying a full-featured infostealer and RAT against developers’ machines. Internally branded “GhostLoader,” this threat combines polished social engineering, encrypted payload delivery, and long‑term persistence to exfiltrate almost every valuable secret a developer holds – from SSH keys and cloud credentials to AI agent […]
The post GhostClaw Masquerades as OpenClaw in Bid to Plunder Developer Data appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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A newly discovered malware operation is targeting employees at finance and healthcare organizations by posing as internal IT support. Once inside, the attackers deploy a stealthy new tool called the A0Backdoor. Cybersecurity researchers at BlueVoyant have identified a threat group, known as Blitz Brigantine or Storm-1811, using email bombing and Microsoft Teams messages to trick […]
The post Hackers Use Microsoft Teams to Manipulate Employees Into Allowing Remote Access appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Dutch intelligence warns Russian hackers are hijacking Signal and WhatsApp accounts using fake support bots and verification code scams targeting officials and journalists.
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Wearable biometrics, improved science, and more data are changing U.S. Army attitudes toward human performance—particularly how soldiers adapt to the risks of overheating.
The U.S. military has been studying the effects of heat on troops for almost a century, dating to the 1927 establishment of the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory at the military's request. Still, soldiers’ and commanders’ approach to core physical tasks—think timed runs, strenuous outdoor activity, or environmental exposure—lags the growing body of science about heat risks, sometimes by years or decades. That may finally be changing under new initiatives to expand research into human performance.
Lt. Col. David deGroot, who directs the Army Heat Center, told Defense One that new wearable devices—which track metrics like heart rate and body temperature—are providing military trainers and soldiers with a new window into how their bodies interact with the environment. This data offers insights well before physical symptoms of overheating appear. That timing is key: by the time a soldier experiences heat exhaustion or the first symptoms of a far more severe heat stroke, it is often too late to prevent a health incident that could sideline them from training or worse.
“We've got some still-evolving, non-invasive, wearable technologies that are going to be able to, not necessarily prevent a heat stroke, but detect it much, much sooner”—as many as 12 minutes sooner, giving time to reduce its severity, deGroot said on the sidelines of the March 4 Heat Forum at Fort Benning, Georgia. (Disclosure: the event was staged by FBC, a Defense One sister brand.)
New data also reveals the costs to units and individuals when they push too hard under the assumption that suffering makes a soldier tougher. The idea that ignoring discomfort is the hallmark of "good soldiering" goes back centuries, but deGroot argues it needs an update.
Too often, he said, it is the soldiers themselves, particularly those trying to qualify for Ranger School, who exhibit a specific risk factor for heat-related illness: a trait that might look good on a resume as being “highly motivated.” Troops who push themselves to attain a new personal best in every physical task run a much higher risk of suffering a heat stroke and taking themselves out of commission.
DeGroot is on a mission to remind soldiers, trainers, and commanders that it doesn’t make sense to attempt a personal record during every march or run; sometimes, it is best to simply hit the acceptable threshold and save the record-breaking for another day. He also clarified that simply drinking water is not a shield against heat sickness. In fact, he noted, 80 percent of heat stroke victims are actually well-hydrated.
“If you successfully hydrate, congratulations: you have successfully mitigated the risk of dehydration. But if you are sick, if you are not acclimatized, if you are overweight, or if you are excessively motivated, those risks still exist despite appropriate hydration,” he said.
He added that trainers too often confuse periods of physical rest with "inactivity" and grumble about science-backed ratio tables that dictate appropriate activity levels based on external factors.
“When you look at those tables, they're not as restrictive as you think they might be,” he said. “There are a lot of things you can still be doing that are productive training or operational activities.”
The new science on heat isn’t just slowing training down. In some ways, it is speeding it up. Take research on acclimatization—the process of adjusting to different temperatures. Previous thinking suggested that soldiers needed as long as eight days to adjust to a new climate. However, research published last year showed a different approach. Researchers compared a standardized eight-day acclimatization group (90 minutes a day) against a group that performed four 90-minute bouts in one day and four more the next. Both groups reached the same level of acclimatization.
“When I read it, I was excited about it," deGroot said. "This is a fascinating idea that I never even thought of.”
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Anthropic is suing more than a dozen federal agencies and government leaders such as iDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth, claiming that the federal government's blacklist is illegal retaliation.
In a March 9 court filing with the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, Anthropic claims that defendants named in the lawsuit are illegally punishing Anthropic for its decision not to change the terms of use for its AI product to work with the Department of Defense.
The court filing offers background into Anthropic’s product, the large language model Claude, and its extensive work within the federal government, particularly within the Pentagon.
It discusses the events that unfolded in the disagreement about Claude use cases within DOD, particularly surrounding uses to surveil U.S. citizens and control autonomous weapons. Anthropic asserts that the government's actions after this disagreement — primarily the designation of the company as a supply-chain risk and alleged violations of its right to due process through a lack of “core requirements” such as “adequate notice and a meaningful hearing” — are illegal and “are harming Anthropic irreparably.”
“These actions are unprecedented and unlawful,” the lawsuit reads. “The Constitution does not allow the government to wield its enormous power to punish a company for its protected speech. No federal statute authorizes the actions taken here. Anthropic turns to the judiciary as a last resort to vindicate its rights and halt the Executive’s unlawful campaign of retaliation.”
The lawsuit alleges that the Trump administration’s actions against Anthropic are based on pure ideological disagreement and are not due to “any legitimate procurement or security concern.” Anthropic further claims that it even attempted to support the Pentagon’s shift from Anthropic software to other, more compatible systems, further underscoring the “viewpoint-based” actions taken against the company.
“Indeed, while operating under the terms of the Usage Policy, the Department [of Defense] never previously raised any issues with its use of Claude or concerns about Anthropic’s potential interference,” the document reads. “Anthropic had only ever received positive feedback about Claude’s capabilities from its government customers.”
A separate lawsuit, filed in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, further requests a judicial review of the supply chain risk label, citing provisions in the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018.
“Anthropic petitions this Court for review because the Department of War’s actions are, among other things, a pretextual form of retaliation in violation of the First and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution; arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion; unsupported by the administrative record; not in accord with procedures required by law; and in excess of statutory authority,” the second filing states.
Anthropic and DOD's failure to reach an agreement on the use of the former’s technology and the resulting governmentwide actions — namely President Donald Trump’s order for all federal agencies to cease using the technology and the Pentagon designating it as a supply chain risk — have fallen under scrutiny.
A current defense official told Defense One that it will not be easy to shift systems that had relied on Anthropic’s technologies to those of another vendor, and experts like Anthony Kuhn, a managing partner at the New York law firm Tully Rinckey, predicted that the supply chain risk designation in particular could open the Pentagon to lawsuits.
In response to the lawsuit, White House spokeswoman Liz Huston said the Trump administration’s goal is for the military to operate under the U.S. Constitution, “not any woke AI company’s terms of service.”
President Trump will never allow a radical left, woke company to jeopardize our national security by dictating how the greatest and most powerful military in the world operates,” Huston said in a statement to Nextgov/FCW. “The President and Secretary of War are ensuring America’s courageous warfighters have the appropriate tools they need to be successful and will guarantee that they are never held hostage by the ideological whims of any Big Tech leaders.”
Nextgov/FCW has reached out to Anthropic and the Commerce Department for comment. GSA and the Pentagon declined to comment on ongoing litigation.
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The Defense Department is reupping its search for civilian employees to deploy to the southwest border to participate in immigration-enforcement operations—and asking supervisors to solicit volunteers.
The Pentagon first asked its civilian workers to consider volunteering for assignments to the Homeland Security Department last year. On Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth upped the pressure.
“I expect every supervisor to encourage their civilian employees to volunteer,” Hegseth said in a memo distributed to department leaders. “Leadership must continue to promote this detail program and educate their civilian employees on its importance.”
Detailed Defense employees are supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection for up to 180 days, according to existing postings on the federal jobs board website. Duties include data entry, developing operational plans for raids and patrols, providing logistics support for moving officers and agents and their equipment and managing the flow of detained migrants. The Defense employees do not carry out law-enforcement responsibilities.
DHS is currently shut down after its funding lapsed last month, though its law-enforcement functions and employees remain largely unaffected. Neither it nor the Pentagon immediately responded to inquiries on the new directive.
One Army civilian said several supervisors sent Hegseth’s memorandum on Monday, without providing any additional context. A command-wide email did offer some additional information.
“DHS has a vital mission to safeguard and secure the homeland,” an Army official wrote in the email. “With the potential for increased numbers of migrants in the interior of the United States territory and across the southwest border, DHS needs volunteers to assist in its commitment to ensuring a safe and orderly immigration system.”
It was not immediately clear why the number of migrants entering the country might increase. The Trump administration has boasted that it has reduced the flow of migrants to levels unseen for decades, including from Venezuela, whose leader was recently captured on Trump's order, and from Cuba, whose leaders Trump has recently talked about deposing.
Hegseth encouraged “all who are interested” to volunteer for the detail, calling the work “vital to the national security of the United States.” All supervisors will approve the volunteer requests unless a deployment would conflict with mission-essential functions. Any disapproval must be signed off by a flag officer or Senior Executive Service employee, the secretary said.
The same Army civilian said there has not been any discussion of the detail opportunities since Hegseth first announced them last summer and the employee did not know of anyone who accepted such a role.
“We all think it’s absurd,” the civilian said. The timing of the new push seemed to be a “bad look,” the person added, given the war the U.S. is currently waging against Iran.
The memo is dated Feb. 19, more than a week before the U.S. and Israel began the war in Iran, though it was delivered to employees on Monday.
The detailing out of staff could create additional hardships for the department, which recently shed more than 60,000 employees, or 8% of its civilian workforce. In a January memo, Army Undersecretary David Fitzgerald said the service is still looking for ways to shed employees and is maintaining significant hiring restrictions so as to not “sacrifice this generational opportunity to fix ourselves and remove the bottlenecks that plague our daily operations.”
The Army has not yet “received meaningful optimization,” Fitzgerald said, despite many commands having realized “significant personnel reductions through [the deferred resignation program] and otherwise.”
Meghann Myers contributed to this report.
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The end of a dictator like Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a good thing and freedom for Iranians is an admirable goal. But as U.S. regime wars in the Middle East since 9/11 have shown, removing leaders is one thing, while strategic successes are quite another. The longer the strikes continue, the greater the chances that more U.S. troops will die and the United States will be dragged into a bigger war.
The Trump administration has offered handfuls of reasons for launching the strikes, but none that is vital to U.S. national security. There is no intelligence showing Iran is anywhere close to developing missiles that can hit the United States. Iran’s nuclear program has been “obliterated,” according to President Trump, and regardless is not a direct threat to the United States. The U.S. doesn’t depend on oil from Iran or the Middle East.
Trump needs to take the victory of killing Khamenei and wind down military force against Iran. The American experience in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan have shown that taking out leaders is the easy part; it’s what follows that turns into a disaster.
Despite the Bush administration’s detailed plans for a new government in Iraq, that country descended into sectarian chaos after U.S. forces removed Saddam Hussein from power in 2003. The war became a nightmare for the United States, leading to a long military occupation (U.S. troops are still there today) and the rise of ISIS, among other problems.
Wanting to avoid Bush’s mistakes, Barack Obama tried a different strategy in Libya. Rather than put boots on the ground, he just bombed from the air, like Trump is doing today with Iran. The strategy unseated the dictator Moammar Gaddafi, but it unleashed chaos across North and West Africa. Libya became a failed state and a hotbed for international terrorism.
There are no indications that regime change in Iran will go any better. There are a couple of likely scenarios here, neither of them good.
First, Iran might spin into the same kind of chaos as Iraq and Libya. Due to five decades of harsh repression (which was on full display with Iranian protests in January), there is no organized opposition to take power if the regime collapses. Like in Libya, government collapse would likely bring civil war and a failed state, only this time there would be highly enriched uranium added to the mix.
Second, regime collapse might bring to power, as U.S. intelligence agencies predict, an even more radical, hardline government led most likely by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Whether this is happening now in the wake of Khamenei’s death remains to be seen, but signs of a more hardline position from Tehran are already showing up.
Since Khamenei’s killing, Iran has unleashed a torrent of missiles, striking elevencountries across the Middle East. This stands in sharp contrast to its delayed, highly choreographed, and restrained military response in last summer’s 12-Day War.
Tehran’s current strategy is to inflict pain on the United States and its allies to get them to back down. Six U.S. servicemembers have already died, a number Trump expects to grow.
As that happens, pressure for the United States to go even bigger—perhaps with boots on the ground in Iran—will grow intense inside the Trump administration. Trump has already said he’s not ruled out a full invasion of Iran.
The Trump administration has repeatedly acknowledged that the United States has few strategic interests in the Middle East and needs to pivot out of the region. Trump’s Iran war is setting the stage for even deeper U.S. engagement in the Middle East for decades to come.
Reports indicate Trump has no idea how to finish his Iran war, but he actually does know what to do. Last year, he vowed to “completely annihilate” the Houthis, but after burning through munitions—as the U.S. is doing today in Iran—and realizing that he’d need U.S. ground troops to do so, Trump smartly declared victory and brokered a ceasefire to end the conflict.
Killing Khamenei is a big win. Trump should take that win and cut a deal to end this war. Americans will thank him for that. They didn’t want this war before it started and haven’t rallied in support of it since it began. Today, 59 percent oppose what Trump is doing.
If he’s smart, Trump will stop this war before it spins into something disastrous that no one – including the president—wants.
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that masquerades as an OpenClaw installer to deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) and steal sensitive data from compromised hosts. The package, named “@openclaw-ai/openclawai,” was uploaded to the registry by a user named “openclaw-ai” on March 3, 2026. It has been downloaded 178 times to date. The library is still available for
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