Cyber Scoop

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• botnets
• China
• Cybersecurity
• Geopolitics
• operational relay box networks (ORBs)
• Volt Typhoon

Chinese-linked hacking units increasingly use ‘ORBs’ to obfuscate espionage, researchers say

Cyber Scoop May 22, 2024

Chinese-linked hacking units increasingly use ‘ORBs’ to obfuscate espionage,...

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• American Water Works Association
• critical infrastructure
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Government
• hacktivists
• Policy
• Russia
• water sector

EPA will step up inspections of water sector cybersecurity

Cyber Scoop May 20, 2024

EPA will step up inspections of water sector cybersecurity...

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• artificial intelligence
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• CIRCIA
• CISA
• cyber workforce
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• cybersecurity workforce
• CyberSentry
• Eric Goldstein
• Government
• Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC)
• Russia
• secure-by-design
• Ukraine
• workforce

Departing top CISA official reflects on nearly four years in the cyber hot seat

Cyber Scoop May 17, 2024

Departing top CISA official reflects on nearly four years...

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• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• emergency directive
• Eric Goldstein
• Goldman Sachs
• Jen Easterly
• secure-by-design
• workforce

Top CISA official Eric Goldstein to depart agency next month

Cyber Scoop May 16, 2024

Top CISA official Eric Goldstein to depart agency next...

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• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Geopolitics
• IT workers
• North Korea
• Threats

Arizona woman arrested and charged in North Korean IT worker scheme

Cyber Scoop May 16, 2024

Arizona woman arrested and charged in North Korean IT...

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• Director of National Intelligence
• election interference
• election security
• Policy
• Senate Intelligence Committee

Lawmakers fret over who will report foreign election interference 

Cyber Scoop May 16, 2024

Lawmakers fret over who will report foreign election interference ...

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• AI
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• deep fakes
• Election 2024
• Election Assistance Commission
• Government
• NIST
• Policy

Three bills governing AI in elections pass Senate committee

Cyber Scoop May 15, 2024

Three bills governing AI in elections pass Senate committee...

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• Access Now
• Citizen Lab
• Europe
• European Parliament
• NSO Group
• pegasus
• Poland
• Privacy
• spyware
• Technology
• United Nations

Inside Poland’s groundbreaking effort to reckon with spyware abuses 

Cyber Scoop May 15, 2024

Inside Poland’s groundbreaking effort to reckon with spyware abuses ...

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2 min read

• BreachForum
• cybercrime
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

BreachForums, a key English-language cybercrime forum, seized by the FBI

Cyber Scoop May 15, 2024

BreachForums, a key English-language cybercrime forum, seized by the...

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• AI
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• deepfakes
• election security
• Policy

AI companies promise to protect our elections. Will they live up to their pledges?

Cyber Scoop May 15, 2024

AI companies promise to protect our elections. Will they...

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