2026-07-04 20:00 UTC | BLOCK 956692
BITCOIN $63,235 | GOLD $4,159 | OIL $72.12
1. Ukrainian drone campaign pushes Crimea's power grid into crisis
-- Ukrainian drones struck nearly two dozen power substations across Russian-occupied Crimea over the past week, triggering rolling blackouts across the peninsula, according to open-source war monitors.
-- Degrading Crimea's grid strains Russian military logistics and air-defense coverage on the peninsula, extending an economic-pressure campaign that has already produced fuel shortages inside Russia.
2. Brussels proposes five joint defence projects to pool EU industrial capacity
-- The European Commission on Friday proposed five large-scale European Defence Projects of Common Interest to help member states build shared military-industrial capabilities.
-- The scheme channels procurement money into pan-European programs rather than national champions, institutionalizing the bloc's rearmament at a moment when confidence in U.S. security guarantees is eroding.
3. Canada unveils pipeline plan in bid to become an 'energy superpower'
-- Canada announced plans to build a major new oil pipeline to expand crude sales to Asia and sharply increase fossil-fuel production, Semafor reported Friday.
-- New Pacific export capacity would loosen Canada's dependence on U.S. buyers and add supply to a market where Brent sits at $72 and forecasters already see prices sliding toward $60 as Hormuz shipping normalizes.
4. Researchers document first ransomware attack run entirely by an AI agent
-- Security researchers say the JadePuffer operation is the first documented ransomware intrusion executed end-to-end by a large-language-model agent, from initial access through extortion.
-- Autonomous attack tooling collapses the cost and skill floor for ransomware, raising security risk for enterprises facing machine-speed intrusions and giving policymakers concrete evidence for AI-misuse regulation.
5. FBI-led operation dismantles NetNut proxy network of 2 million hijacked devices
-- The FBI and partners including Google seized hundreds of domains tied to NetNut, a residential proxy service operated by a publicly traded Israeli company that routed traffic through roughly 2 million compromised Android devices.
-- Residential proxies underpin credential-stuffing, ad fraud and sanctions evasion, and dismantling one at corporate scale creates legal exposure for listed firms that monetize hijacked consumer hardware.
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