DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency

DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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Australian Critical Infrastructure Faces ‘Acute’ Foreign Threats

The continent faces “relentless” military espionage, and increased cyber sabotage at the hands of authoritarian regimes, according to a high-ranking intelligence director.

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Russian Groups Target Signal Messenger in Spy Campaign

These sorts of attacks reveal growing adversary interest in secure messaging apps used by high-value targets for communication, Google says.

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Insight Partners, VC Giant, Falls to Social Engineering

The startup incubator and PR firm with holdings in more than 70 cybersecurity firms has announced a data breach with as-yet-unknown effects.

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Recent Ghost/Cring ransomware activity prompts alert from FBI, CISA

A ransomware group known as Ghost has been exploiting vulnerabilities in software and firmware as recently as January, according to an alert issued Wednesday by the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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The head of US AI safety has stepped down. What now?

Large-scale shifts at US government agencies that monitor AI development are underway. Where does that leave AI regulation?

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Spanish spyware startup Mollitiam Industries shuts down

The little-known surveillance vendor filed for bankruptcy in January, after years of peddling spyware to countries like Colombia.

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US AI Safety Institute will be ‘gutted,’ Axios reports

Sources at NIST are preparing for mass firings that would severely undermine the AI regulator. Here’s what that means.

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Hackers Tricking Users Into Linking Devices to Steal Signal Messages

Is your Signal, WhatsApp, or Telegram account safe? Google warns of increasing attacks by Russian state-backed groups. Learn…

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Yikes: Jailbroken Grok 3 can be made to say and reveal just about anything

A red team got xAI’s latest model to reveal its system prompt, provide instructions for making a bomb, and worse. Much worse.

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