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The Hunt: The battle to liberate Mosul

WASHINGTON — The long-predicted battle to liberate Mosul, Iraq, from ISIL has begun. In this week’s edition of “The Hunt,” Pentagon spokesman and Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green it’s going to be a long, tough fight.

FBI detects Iranian cyber criminals in US systems

WASHINGTON — The FBI has detected a group of hackers it believes are using dozens of IP addresses and hundreds of domains hosted in the United States to possibly attack enemies of the Iranian government. A Cyber Division Flash bulletin indicates “a group of malicious cyber actors — likely located in Iran — use Virtual Private Server infrastructure hosted in the United States to compromise government, corporate and academic computer networks based in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.”
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