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Senior Technology, Cybersecurity Officials Removed From Interior DepartmentThe U.S. Department of Interior has reportedly removed several key cybersecurity and technology officials from their posts following a reported dispute with staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency over its access to government systems and sensitive federal data.

US Sanctions Are Forcing North Korea to Shift Targets, Using Workers With Fake IDsNorth Korean hackers posing as IT workers used to focus on stealing cryptocurrency and infiltrating U.S. tech companies to access sensitive data, but U.S. sanctions and increasing awareness of these job scammers have forced Pyongyang to shift its focus to Europe, said Mandiant's Luke McNamara.

Google's AI video generator tool Veo 2, which is the company's take on OpenAI's Sora, is now rolling out to some users in the United States. [...]

Security experts weigh in on the problem Salt Typhoon and its hacking of telecoms poses against the United States, including what the US should do and how defenders can protect themselves.

Also: PoisonSeed Phishing Campaign, FTX Clients Face Reimbursement HurdleThis week, Trump administration disbanded a Justice Department crypto unit, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will review crypto guidance, Usual pledged up to $16M in bug bounties, a PoisonSeed phishing campaign, FTX repayment plan troubles and a Coinbase 2FA error.

Chris Krebs and SentinelOne Targeted as Trump Still Trumpets 2020 Election LiesThe White House said President Trump has ordered a probe into former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs' government service, revoked any security clearances he holds and suspended security clearances issued to his employer, SentinelOne.

Scammers are already cashing in with fake invoices for import costs World War Fee As the trade war between America and China escalates, some infosec and policy experts fear Beijing will strike back in cyberspace.…

It worked for in 2018 with Chris Krebs. Will it work again? Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, has been "actively hiding information" about American telecommunications networks' weak security for years, according to Senator Ron Wyden.…

Tech Giant Says Threat Actors Are Exploiting a Flaw in Widely-Targeted Windows ToolRansomware threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability discovered in a highly targeted Windows logging system tool in a campaign in part targeting U.S. IT and real estate sectors, Microsoft confirmed in a Tuesday blog post urging customers to apply available patches.

Microsoft Reportedly Alerted Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to BreachFor nearly two years, hackers reportedly spied on 150,000 "highly sensitive" emails sent and received by America's banking regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The OCC said it's continuing to probe the "major information security incident."

Microsoft has revealed that a now-patched security flaw impacting the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) was exploited as a zero-day in ransomware attacks aimed at a small number of targets

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting Gladinet CentreStack to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild

AI Leaders Call for Proactive US Response Amid Chinese Technology BreakthroughsThe United States risks losing the so-called "AI Cold War" against China unless it abandons traditional containment strategies and adapts to Beijing's advances, panelists told lawmakers Tuesday. "I'm as stunned as all of you about just how fast China has caught up," said Adam Thierer.

A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting CrushFTP has been added by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after reports emerged of active exploitation in the wild

Will 'gutting' the civilian defense agency make American cybersecurity great again? Analysis Slashing staff at the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, and scrapping vital programs, isn’t exactly boosting national security, say infosec and national security officials watching America’s digital defenses unravel in real time.…

Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States have published a joint advisory about the risks associated with a technique called fast flux that has been adopted by threat actors to obscure a command-and-control (C2) channel