Information War Update Oct 25, 2026: North Korea PHP Target List
Information war news: North Korea-linked hackers list PHP targets led by South Korea, Hong Kong warns of fake HIV alerts and Ukraine rebuts a biolab claim.
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Information War Weekly Roundup: Starlink, PHP Flaws, Ransomware
Our information war weekly roundup: Starlink disputes, FBI and CISA warnings on PHP flaws, a CISA catalog addition and the DeepSeek order.
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Information War Update Oct 24, 2026: Internet Freedom Falls 16th Year
Information war: Freedom House logs a 16th year of falling internet freedom, lawmakers press Musk on Starlink and the FBI flags PHP flaws.
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PHP2Shell: Critical PHP Flaws Take Government Websites Offline
PHP2Shell flaws pushed Finland and the Netherlands to pull sites offline as CISA and NSA urged patches; Microsoft tied the ConnectWise hack to China.
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DeepSeek Ban: What the DHS Order Tells Federal Agencies to Do
DeepSeek ban: DHS orders civilian agencies to drop DeepSeek and tools built on it. We read the July order’s terms, exceptions and what the notice omits.
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Trade War Oct 20, 2026: US Sanctions China AI Backers, Bars DeepSeek
A Chinese AI investor sanctioned, DeepSeek barred from agencies and Rubio’s India deal push lead Tuesday’s trade war update.
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Disinformation Oct 19, 2026: Starshield Reversal, Missed Warnings
Information war: Rubio revises his Starshield account, Kyiv says missile warnings failed again, and Russia hits a Kyiv data center.
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Foreign Influence Operations, Oct 16, 2026: X Purges 13,000 Accounts
Foreign influence operations: X suspends 13,000 accounts, AI fakes of Houthi airport strikes spread, and Brazil’s court orders Meta to apply equal rules.
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Information War Update — October 14, 2026
Information war: Yandex bot-strike claim unproven, US charges North Korean IT ring and OpenAI bugging, UK and EU add FIMI defences.
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Information War Update — October 13, 2026
Information war: allies attribute Iran at RAF Fairford, Armenia election networks mapped, midterm deepfakes and OSCE snub.
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