The silhouette of a man is seen with the city of Caracas in the background on January 9, 2026. Experts say that while President Donald Trump says that cyber weapons were used to plunge Caracas into darkness, multiple military elements were used in the operation. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP via Getty Images)
A “precision cyber strike” makes for a clean narrative. The available evidence in the wake of the operation suggests something harder to label – and harder to…
The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Data from sensors that detect threats in critical infrastructure networks at the laboratory is sitting unanalyzed after a government contract expired this weekend. (Photo: Jason Laurea/LLNL)
A worker walks inside of an uranium conversion facility in Iran on March 30, 2005. Stuxnet, a piece of malware reportedly developed by Israel and the U.S. to destroy equipment in the facilities like the one pictured, will be the subject of a forthcoming Congressional hearing. (Photo by Getty Images)
The House Homeland Committee will revisit the malware to use the knowledge from the spy effort to explore the domestic threats facing the U.S. in 2025.
In recent months, incoming Trump administration national security adviser Mike Waltz and some lawmakers have suggested that in response to Chinese cyber breaches, the United States needs…