The U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury and multiple other agencies jointly announced a special operation codenamed targeting scam centers, indicting Chinese criminal suspects, shutting down Telegram channels and fake websites, offering rewards for their capture and sanctioning relevant implicated individuals and entities in Myanmar's Taichang and Cambodia.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memorandum harshly accusing entities primarily from China of stealing U.S. AI intellectual property through tens of thousands of proxy accounts and jailbreak technology systems.
On April 23, US President Trump posted on social media that he had ordered the US Navy to sink and destroy any ship laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, while also demanding that minesweepers continue clearing the strait at triple intensity.
On April 23, the U.S. Department of War announced that U.S. forces conducted a maritime interception and boarding of the stateless tanker Majestic X in the Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility, which was suspected of transporting Iranian oil destined for Zhoushan Port in Zhejiang, China.
On April 23 local time, former Iranian Crown Prince Pahlavi was splashed from behind at close range with a red liquid as he walked out of the building after attending a federal press conference in Berlin. Pahlavi was not injured and left by car, and the attacker was detained on the spot.
On June 15, 2026, the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab released a research report disclosing that commercial spyware vendors exploit vulnerabilities in global telecommunications network interconnections to conduct long-term targeted tracking of journalists, politicians, and dissidents.