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Cybersecurity News 18 June 2025 - 16 July 2025

Ukraine’s Tech Triumphs Amid Turmoil: Startups, Cyber Warriors, and a Digital Revolution (2024–2025)

Ukraine’s Tech Triumphs Amid Turmoil: Startups, Cyber Warriors, and a Digital Revolution (2024–2025)

In 2024 Ukrainian startups attracted about $462 million in funding, a 120% YoY rise, with defense-tech startups pulling at least $59 million and the Brave1 fund granting $40 million in grants. Creatio, a Kyiv-founded enterprise software startup, became Ukraine’s unicorn in 2024 after raising $200 million at a $1.2 billion valuation, joining six Ukrainian-founded unicorns. IT sector export revenues reached $6.45 billion in 2024, down 4% from 2023, with over 300,000 tech specialists (about 238,000 in Ukraine) and up to 668,000 total jobs supported. Diia.City grew to 1,396 resident companies by the end of 2024, roughly one-third of which are
16 July 2025
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Ukraine’s Telecom Revolution Amid War: 5G Launches, Rebuilt Networks & Cyber Battles (2024–2025)

Ukraine’s Telecom Revolution Amid War: 5G Launches, Rebuilt Networks & Cyber Battles (2024–2025)

In late 2024 Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced a two-year 5G pilot in three cities—Lviv first, with Kyiv and Odesa testing through 2025—as a step toward a full 5G rollout by 2030. In November 2024 Ukraine auctioned spectrum in the 2100, 2300, and 2600 MHz bands, raising ₴2.8 billion (~$67.7 million) and awarding five lots to Kyivstar, Vodafone Ukraine, and lifecell with licenses requiring 1,500 new base stations in two years and 500 in the first year, plus six months to restore service in liberated areas. The three major operators scrapped domestic roaming charges, enabling free roaming on each
16 July 2025
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Cybersecurity Mayhem: Major Hacks, Data Breaches & Bold Defenses – Roundup (July 14, 2025)

Cybersecurity Mayhem: Major Hacks, Data Breaches & Bold Defenses – Roundup (July 14, 2025)

Security analysts reported a 133% rise in Iranian state-sponsored attacks through May–June 2025, with Nozomi Networks tracking 28 incidents across six APT groups (MuddyWater, APT33, OilRig, CyberAvengers, Fox Kitten, Homeland Justice), and MuddyWater alone carrying out five breaches targeting OT/ICS. A joint alert by CISA, the FBI, NSA and DoD warned Iranian hackers may target defense, water, and aviation firms amid rising Middle East tensions. In Europe, Chinese state-backed hackers exploited a zero-day in Ivanti VPN appliances to infiltrate French government networks, with ANSSI linking the operation to the UNC5174 group. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the takedown of
15 July 2025
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Bitcoin Breaks $120K, Hackers Lurk, and Quantum Leaps – Tech News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

Bitcoin Breaks $120K, Hackers Lurk, and Quantum Leaps – Tech News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

Bitcoin surged past $120,000 for the first time on July 14, 2025, briefly peaking at $122,571 before settling around $121,953. The Trump-branded meme coin, ticker $TRUMP, was listed on Coinbase within 24 hours of its launch, after being introduced just before Trump’s inauguration. Seagate unveiled a 36TB Exos hard drive, the largest capacity HDD, on preorder for about $800. A PCIe 6.0 SSD prototype delivered 28 GB/s throughput with up to 512 GB, but consumer releases are not expected until near 2030. A self-destructing internal SSD enables a one-click data wipe even when unplugged, powered by an onboard source. On
14 July 2025
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Major Developments in Incident Response – June–July 2025

Major Developments in Incident Response – June–July 2025

On June 5, 2025, United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) detected unauthorized activity on its IT network, shut down large portions of its systems, activated its incident-response plan, and caused nationwide disruptions to food deliveries. Qantas disclosed on June 30, 2025, a cyber breach in a third-party call center platform exposing personal data of about 6 million customers, contained the incident the same day, and launched a dedicated hotline while tightening monitoring. On June 12, 2025, Aflac revealed that attackers breached its network via social engineering, stealing customers’ sensitive claims data including Social Security numbers and health information, with ransomware not
10 July 2025
Major ZTNA News and Trends – June & July 2025

Major ZTNA News and Trends – June & July 2025

On June 10, 2025, Cisco Live announced Universal ZTNA and AI-Era Security, including Universal Zero Trust Network Access that authenticates users, devices and AI agents, plus Hybrid Mesh Firewall and Splunk integrations. At Zenith Live on June 3, 2025, Zscaler unveiled the Zero Trust Everywhere Suite with Zero Trust Branch, Zero Trust Gateway for Cloud Workloads, AI-driven microsegmentation, a B2B Zero Trust Exchange, and disposable jumpboxes for contractors. DefensX announced its Premium+ Browser ZTNA on June 8, 2025, turning any modern browser into an enterprise-grade secure access platform with phishing-resistant authentication, identity protection, web threat isolation and data loss prevention.
10 July 2025
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Global Digital Identity and Authentication Developments – June/July 2025

Global Digital Identity and Authentication Developments – June/July 2025

Intesi Group of Italy and iGrant of Sweden launched the EUDI Wallet Business Wallet, a cross-border platform that combines qualified electronic signatures with Qualified Electronic Attribute Attestations for legally binding transactions. Google and Germany’s Sparkasse announced a first-of-its-kind online age-verification service that uses Google Wallet’s Credential Manager API with zero-knowledge cryptography to enable one-click age checks without exposing personal data. authID and Prove joined to embed authID’s biometric selfie verification and the PrivacyKey tokenization feature into Prove’s onboarding platform to detect synthetic identities and deepfake impersonations. Evo Tech released Evolution 1.0, a modular AI-agent platform that analyzes images, video, audio,
10 July 2025
AI, Cloud & Cybersecurity Boom: Inside the 2025 CIO Tech Agenda

AI, Cloud & Cybersecurity Boom: Inside the 2025 CIO Tech Agenda

In 2025, 58% of global tech leaders named AI as the most important technology area for the year ahead. Gartner’s 2025 ANZ CIO poll found 88% of ANZ CIOs identified cybersecurity as their top tech investment for the year. A 2025 global CIO survey shows over 80% of CIOs plan to invest in cybersecurity & risk management, generative AI & ML, data analytics & business intelligence, and integration & APIs. 68% of U.S. CEOs in PwC’s survey believe generative AI will significantly change how their company creates and delivers value. Gartner’s 2025 data shows 71% of digital Vanguard organizations achieve
7 July 2025
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Major Cybersecurity and Zero-Trust Developments (June–July 2025)

Major Cybersecurity and Zero-Trust Developments (June–July 2025)

NIST published Special Publication 1800-35, “Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture,” in June 2025, offering 19 example ZTA implementations built with off-the-shelf commercial technologies. Gartner forecast that by the end of 2025, 60% of enterprises will embrace zero trust as a starting point for security. Illumio and NVIDIA announced an OT Zero Trust Segmentation partnership in June 2025 to run Illumio’s microsegmentation on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs for agentless enforcement in OT and data-center environments. Cisco at Cisco Live on June 10, 2025 unveiled Universal ZTNA and a Hybrid Mesh Firewall to extend identity-driven zero-trust policy across users, devices, and AI agents,
3 July 2025
Space Race 2.0: A Shoebox‑Sized Quantum Satellite Blasts Off—Can It Make Hackers Obsolete?

Space Race 2.0: A Shoebox‑Sized Quantum Satellite Blasts Off—Can It Make Hackers Obsolete?

QUICK³ is a 3U CubeSat weighing 4 kg, led by Germany’s Technical University of Munich, and it launched on 23 June 2025 aboard SpaceX’s Transporter‑14 from Vandenberg SFB. It carries the first true single-photon source flown, a laser-pumped hexagonal boron nitride chip on a 10 × 10 × 15 cm photonic chip. True single photons are expected to raise secret-key rates 10–100× over weak-laser systems. The pump laser is a 698 nm diode module, 45 × 80 × 20 mm, weighing 200 g. QUICK³ uses a 3U CubeSat bus with a 4 kg mass budget and rideshare compatibility, with launch
24 June 2025
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“Unhackable from Orbit!” – How a 4 kg CubeSat Just Kicked‑Off the Race for a Global Quantum‑Secure Internet

“Unhackable from Orbit!” – How a 4 kg CubeSat Just Kicked‑Off the Race for a Global Quantum‑Secure Internet

On 23 June 2025 at 07:18 UTC, the Falcon 9 lifted the QUICK³ nano-satellite into a 550 km sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base during SpaceX’s Transporter-14 rideshare, with payload separation confirmed nine minutes after launch. The QUICK³ spacecraft weighs 4 kg and is a 3-U CubeSat (10 × 10 × 30 cm) with a primary experiment window of 6 minutes per 97-minute orbit. QUICK³ aims to bypass fiber-based quantum key distribution limits by sending true single photons through near-vacuum upper atmosphere to enable intercontinental quantum-secure links. A hexagonal-boron-nitride colour centre single-photon source emits at 650–700 nm, paired with
24 June 2025
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Internet Kill Switch: Recurring Blackouts in Syria, Iraq, Algeria – And Who’s Next?

Internet Kill Switch: Recurring Blackouts in Syria, Iraq, Algeria – And Who’s Next?

Syria has conducted annual nationwide internet shutdowns on high school exam days since 2016, with 2020–2025 patterns showing daily outages of roughly 3.5 to 5.5 hours during exam periods. Syria’s shutdowns use an asymmetric model that allows outbound traffic but blocks inbound responses, making the internet effectively unusable. In Syria, the 2023 exam season produced at least 11 nationwide outages, each about 4 hours long (06:00–10:00), spanning May–June for the first round and late June–July for the second. Iraq began regular exam-related shutdowns in 2023, imposing near-daily four-hour nationwide outages (04:00–08:00) during exams, with a total of 42 outages in
18 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

Caterpillar stock price jumps 7% to $726 as Dow cracks 50,000 — what matters next week

Caterpillar stock price jumps 7% to $726 as Dow cracks 50,000 — what matters next week

7 February 2026
Caterpillar shares surged 7.1% to $726.20 Friday, driving the Dow above 50,000 for the first time. The move erased recent losses and followed insider selling by Group President Bob De Lange earlier in the week. Deere and CNH Industrial also gained as investors rotated into industrial stocks. Markets await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data.
Amazon stock slides as $200B AI spending plan meets cautious profit outlook

Amazon stock slides as $200B AI spending plan meets cautious profit outlook

7 February 2026
Amazon shares fell 9% Friday after the company announced plans for $200 billion in 2026 capital spending, mainly for AWS and AI, and issued a first-quarter profit outlook below estimates. The stock drop could erase $200 billion in market value. Fourth-quarter net sales rose 14% to $213.4 billion, while free cash flow declined due to higher spending on AI infrastructure.
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