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December 14, 2025

December 14, 2025

December 14, 2025

Great NYT reporting on the CIA's loss of a plutonium power source in the Himalayas in the 1960s. "Extensive interviews with the people who carried out the mission and once-secret documents... reveal the extent of the debacle" https://t.co/sPHtAW5upI

— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) December 13, 2025


Remember the DNG exploit/LANDFALL samples that Unit42 found on VirusTotal? Google Project Zero also found them, and is out with a technical analysis of the DNG exploit. It turns out it's *unclear* whether these were actually part of a *zero-click* exploit https://t.co/4lsJpmKOUB

— Bill Marczak (@billmarczak) December 12, 2025

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1999548381014950088.html


https://t.co/Y7yPhDhlq5 pic.twitter.com/kEt8iLDAVE

— Smukx.E (@5mukx) December 13, 2025


This report also includes an important chapter on the effectiveness of Russian air defenses, which is a lot higher than the popular online discourse can lead one to believe. https://t.co/0NyUcXRhbV pic.twitter.com/gmxeJ5w4fZ

— Thord Are Iversen (@The_Lookout_N) December 13, 2025


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