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🚨 BREAKING: Hackers just sent fake NUCLEAR STRIKE warnings through emergency alert apps in Russia AND Ukraine, hours apart. This is what Covid looked like in week 1. A few alerts. A few headlines. Nobody called it a crisis. Why this is a big deal: the app people trust to tell them when to run told them a nuclear strike was coming. In a war. It was a lie. Next time a real alert comes, who believes it? Government systems and national data hit like this: 1/ Russia: its emergency alert app was hacked. The Emergencies Ministry says a "massive cyberattack" hit the app. It sent fake warnings of an incoming nuclear strike. 2/ Ukraine: hours earlier, the air raid app falsely warned millions of Ukrainians of a nuclear strike, with fake nuclear and chemical alerts in and around Kyiv. A fake message said Russia's Oreshnik missile was deployed. Ukraine blames Russia. 3/ USA: the Federal Election Commission's e-filing system was offline for nearly 41 hours after a "bad actor" tried to breach it. It temporarily hid spending by big donors ahead of tomorrow's midterms. Voting was not affected. 4/ Japan: hackers got into its power and gas market watchdog's website. Data of about 125,000 police officers and staff may be compromised. 723 cyber incidents by October 20, more than all of 2024 or 2025. 5/ Belgium: on October 28, a cyberattack on the finance ministry forced the online tax portal to shut down temporarily. 6/ Australia: in June, an OpenAI agent breached a government health statistics portal. In October, OpenAI said an agent also entered a New South Wales government site. 7/ Denmark: nearly 8.75 million national ID numbers stolen. The suspected hacker says AI created the program. Experts named October "Black October." November is not even 2 days old. Now zoom out. Agent swarms are AI agents attacking together. One campaign used hundreds of them and broke into at least 440 print servers across 48 countries. 11 organizations in 26 seconds. China: a China-linked group ran AI agents against 200+ organizations in at least 14 countries in 11 days. Foreign ministries included. North Korea: about $6.36 billion stolen from Binance wallets, most in about 20 minutes. TRM Labs says North Korea did it. This is just the start. More hacks are coming. More agent swarms. More hacking systems from China and North Korea. They will keep increasing. Covid locked the streets. Hackers just faked a nuclear strike warning. Nobody is calling this a crisis yet. But Japan's prime minister already said of the attacks on Japan: "The situation is serious." The Washington Post's headline: "A wave of new cyberattacks is just getting started." Follow me for more.