James Pearson

Reuters has launched a new Visual Investigations unit, which I'll be joining on secondment for the next six months.

I'll be drawing on the threat intelligence techniques I've studied on the cyber beat, as well as leaning on the various OSINT skills I've developed in information-scarce datelines.

Exclusive: Palo Alto chose not to tie China to hacking campaign for fear of retaliation from Beijing, sources say Palo Alto Networks opted not to tie China to a global cyberespionage campaign the firm exposed last week over concerns that the cybersecurity company or its clients could face retaliation from Beijing...

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Exclusive: Palo Alto chose not to tie China to hacking campaign for fear of retaliation from Beijing, sources say Palo Alto Networks opted not to tie China to a global cyberespionage campaign the firm exposed last week over concerns that the cybersecurity company or its clients could face retaliation from Beijing...

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) Palo Alto Networks opted not to tie China to a global cyberespionage campaign the firm exposed last week over concerns that the cybersecurity company or its clients could face retaliation from Beijing, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Iranian ships deliver jet fuel, urea to Myanmar junta Iranian ships falsifying their journeys deliver jet fuel, urea to Myanmar junta, circumventing sanctions in both countries.

NEW: Iran has secretly shipped vast amounts of jet fuel to Myanmar’s military. As the junta ramps up bombing raids against civilian targets, Iran is now the military’s primary supplier of jet fuel and urea, which is an ingredient in Myanmar’s munitions. www.reuters.com/graphics/IRA...

Musk's Starlink faces high-profile security test in Iran crackdown How SpaceX withstands Iranian attacks on Starlink is expected to be closely watched by U.S. military forces and intelligence agencies.

Musk's Starlink faces high-profile security test in Iran crackdown - www.reuters.com/world/musks-...

Australia social media ban takes effect in world first Australia at midnight (1300 GMT) on Wednesday became the first country in the world to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Met...

Australia social media ban takes effect in world first - www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

US labels another Venezuelan group as terrorist, ramping up pressure - www.reuters.com/world/americ...

BBC is not 'institutionally biased', says author of explosive memo - www.reuters.com/world/uk/bbc...

Romania scrambles fighter jets after drones breach airspace - www.reuters.com/world/romani...

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

Ultimately quite sad piece about AI and freelance writing thelocal.to/investigatin...

Love letter, ID card point to Russian units that terrorised Bucha www.reuters.com/investigates...

Scoop here, by @ajvicens.bsky.social www.reuters.com/business/med...

NEW: Hackers working for an unnamed nation state breached networks at Ribbon Communications, a key U.S. telecommunications services company, and remained within the firm’s systems for nearly a year without being detected (!)

The Gaza twins whose whole lives have been war Two years of warfare have brought death and ruin to the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza. Reuters looks at one family’s story of terrible loss and fragile hope.

Two years of warfare have brought death, misery and ruin to the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza. With a new ceasefire plan under discussion, @reuters.com looks at one family’s story of terrible loss and fragile hope. www.reuters.com/investigates...

A year on, Lebanese maimed in Israel's pager attacks on long road to recovery Zainab Mustarah once spent her days running an events planning firm in Beirut. But for the last year, she has been in and out of surgery to save the remnants of her right hand and both eyes.

My colleagues in Beirut have also just put out a fascinating follow-up piece, one year later, in which they interviewed some of the people still living with injuries sustained in the attack: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Mossad Pager Attack: The Long War with Hezbollah (Ep 1) Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Classified · 28/09/2025 · 49m

Listen to part one here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

For paid members of the podcast's Declassified Club, there'll be an interview with me about some of the investigative techniques we used to break the story, which comes out tomorrow.

How Israel’s bulky pager fooled Hezbollah An invisible detonator and wafer-thin plastic explosives turned batteries into bombs

The series is grounded in the @reuters.com investigation by myself, @david-gv.bsky.social and Maya Gebeily, in which we revealed the hidden mechanisms behind the design of the pager-bombs: www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...

The latest episodes of the @restisclassified.bsky.social podcast with @gordoncorera.bsky.social and David McCloskey is a fascinating look inside Mossad's sprawling campaign to infiltrate and weaponise pagers used by Hezbollah.

Great latest series from @restisclassified.bsky.social on this mindblowing operation - and the investigation itself by Reuters

Very much looking forward to the Club members episode @gordoncorera.bsky.social ,
@pearswick.press is a good friend of mine and know he’s going to be an excellent guest 🎙️

Ukraine’s frontline cities filled with dread and defiance Reuters travelled to the frontline cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk where Russian kamikaze drones hover in the skies looking for targets, forcing tens of thousands of people still living there to choose: Do I stay or do I go?

In his new clothes store in the heart of Ukraine’s frontline city of Kramatorsk, Maksym Lysenko suddenly stops talking and listens. “There,” he says, leaning towards the window looking onto the street. “It's going to dive. it’s going to drop.” www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...

Traders at their stalls minutes after an exploding Russian drone hit the roof of an indoor market in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. 📸REUTERS/Thomas Peter

The Swearsky Index is currently 3.7%. The 24 hour average is 2.7%. The 7 day average is 2.5%. The highest point in the last 24 hours was 3.7% and the lowest was 1.6%.

🤬 The Swearsky Index has increased to 3.7%

COPENHAGEN, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Denmark's second-biggest airport, Billund, was briefly shut early on Friday following a report of illegal drone activity that police later identified as "a shining star in the sky," amid heightened concern over drone sightings nationwide.

Reuters: Britain's National Crime Agency says a man has been arrested in the UK as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace. The man was arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences on Tuesday and has been released on conditional bail.

Exclusive: US could hit entire International Criminal Court with sanctions soon The United States is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire International Criminal Court, putting the court's day-to-day operations in jeopardy in retaliation for investigations of suspected Israeli war crimes.

Exclusive: US could hit entire International Criminal Court with sanctions soon - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

British spies turn to dark web to recruit Russian agents, access secrets - www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...

Secret Report Undercuts U.K. Condemnations of Pro-Palestinian Group

Secret Report Undercuts U.K. Condemnations of Pro-Palestinian Group www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

Who is Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Charlie Kirk's murder? The suspect in Charlie Kirk’s shooting, Tyler Robinson, is a 22-year-old native of Utah who authorities say had allegedly criticized the conservative influencer in a recent conversation and was living with his family at the time of the shooting.

Who is Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Charlie Kirk's murder? www.reuters.com/world/us/who...

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

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