Just got word that DNI Tulsi Gabbard, AG Pam Bondi, and DHS Sec Kristi Noem have canceled their appearances at the Nat'l Association of Sec. of State conference in DC. Have to imagine its due to this cyberscoop.com/fulton-count...

Also: Tulsi Gabbard, who was pictured at Wednesday's raid, and Kristi Noem, will be speaking at the conference tomorrow. Sources told @derekbjohnson.bsky.social they were puzzled as to why, particularly, Gabbard would be speaking

@derekbjohnson.bsky.social is at the NASS conference today and it sounds like officials are all in agreement that what happened in Fulton County yesterday was ominous cyberscoop.com/fulton-count...

I know I’m a homer but this was the most quintessentially McQuade story. Perfect idea, perfect execution. Dan was the only person on Earth who could’ve written this.

I didn’t know Dan, but knew people that knew Dan, and they loved him as much as I loved reading him. RIP defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

“As we’ve seen now for years, Fortinet and the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise are apparently competing for the amount of sagas we can fit into one year. It’s unclear who will win.” cyberscoop.com/ortinet-zero...

Looked at this post too fast and double-taked thinking FT had a column on Pig Destroyer

While half the country has been digging out or thawing after this storm, the @cyberscoop.bsky.social social team has been firing on all cylinders. Starting with @mattkapko.com who has the latest on (allegedly) ShinyHunters' latest vishing scheme cyberscoop.com/shinyhunters...

"Authorities linked Albashiti to the “r1z” account on the cybercrime forum by tracing the Gmail address he used to establish the account in 2018, which was the same email address Albashiti used to apply to the State Department for a visa to enter the US in Oct. 2016." cyberscoop.com/jordanian-na...

CISA’s secure-software buying tool had a simple XSS vulnerability of its own cyberscoop.com/cisa-secure-...

I have a friend who spent nearly $200 at this machine for the chance at a signed jersey. He was upset when he bulled a Bulls Coby White jersey.

Asked what he was doing to convince senators to lift holds, Plankey answered,“The support, the priority that the White House puts on it is the priority that I’ll get in there I’m doing the best I can to perform, to deliver for the country and I look forward to the Senate confirming me.”

NEW from @derekbjohnson.bsky.social: DHS is finalizing a new body that would replace the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC) and serve as a comms hub to discuss ongoing threats to critical infrastructure, including from cyberattacks. cyberscoop.com/dhs-anchor-c...

NEW: Microsoft announced Wednesday that it worked with international law enforcement to seize infrastructure used to run cybercrime subscription service RedVDS and organized civil actions in the United States and United Kingdom to disrupt its further use. cyberscoop.com/microsoft-se...

It is absolutely unconscionable that this reporter had her equipment seized but I cannot understand for the life of me why this story was ever published. The admin had to look at this story (however wrong it may have been) as a "here's how i did it." Why put this out?

Trump re-nominated Sean Plankey to lead CISA on Tuesday, after Plankey’s bid for the position ended last year stuck in the Senate. cyberscoop.com/sean-plankey...

Amid budding sentiment in the Trump administration and Congress to expand offensive cyber operations, some lawmakers and experts are warning that the United States needs to get its defenses in order before going too far down that road. cyberscoop.com/us-offensive...

CrowdStrike is buying Seraphic Security to lock down the browser, where work actually happens cyberscoop.com/crowdstrike-...

Why hasn’t Kevin patullo been fired yet

Addendum to Ilya Lichnstein's release: While he is out of prison, BOP told @timstarks.bsky.social he will be in a halfway house until Jan. 25 - cyberscoop.com/bitfinex-hac...

Another Vince Gilligan season finale

ServiceNow buys Armis for approximately 4.5 powerball jackpots cyberscoop.com/servicenow-a...

That report coming Friday is gonna be an all-timer isn’t it

open gasps when i read this passage out loud in the newsroom

In no way I am saying this story isn't well reported, but the concept of the story, combined with the lead, made me X out of the tab with the quickness. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. These people cannot touch enough grass.

The WH COS is Pat Summerall's daughter?

Trump moves to pardon Colorado election clerk Tina Peters, even though he can’t cyberscoop.com/trump-moves-...

Re-upping this because a lot of you haven't listened! Don't send me predictions! You're probably wrong!

SCOOP: Sean Plankey's nomination to lead CISA is seemingly over, after DHS partially terminated a Coast Guard contract with Florida-based Eastern Shipbuilding Group. Plankey had been an adviser to CG. Sen. Rick Scott became a hurdle to Plankey's confirmation. cyberscoop.com/sean-plankey...

Reaction to this story over at infosec.exchange

NEW: @timstarks.bsky.social has details on the forthcoming cyber strategy from Trump admin: Five pages long, six key pillars, should be released some time in January: cyberscoop.com/trump-nation...

FUD sucks. The warnings around this React vuln are not FUD. Get those patch plans in motion cyberscoop.com/react-server...

GO AWAY

Yelling into the void: Please, pr people, do not send me the pitches about 2026 predictions. It provides zero value. Tell your clients that if they are interested in pushing this into the world, they always have their LinkedIn profiles.

The House Homeland Security Committee is calling on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to provide testimony on a likely-Chinese espionage campaign that used Claude cyberscoop.com/house-homela...

Research from Anthropic reveals that when Claude is taught to cheat in one area—such as reward hacking in coding exercises—it becomes broadly dishonest and malicious across unrelated tasks cyberscoop.com/anthropic-cl...

As SBOMs slowly progress at the federal level and in enterprises, the rise of AI coding assistants is fueling optimistic—and, some experts argue, “kind of insane”—claims about a future with vulnerability-free software. Check out my latest CyberScoop piece. 1/2 cyberscoop.com/sbom-adoptio...

Cybersecurity veteran @boblord.bsky.social launched a new campaign, hacklore.org, which aims to tackle persistent security myths in favor of better advice cyberscoop.com/hacklore-org...

Normally when I listen to PTFO I'm satisfied in just enjoying good work, but this one has the added benefit of being enraging down to the last second.

Palo Alto rips off another $3 billy for a company the way I rip off questionable bets on DraftKings cyberscoop.com/palo-alto-ne...

Ah @cyberwarcon.bsky.social the only conference for intel ops research authored by the terminally online

Re-upping this for, uh, reasons cyberscoop.com/with-each-cl...

My one and only contribution to Today's Discourse™️: If her writing were as scarce as her shame, we'd be spared entirely.

NEW: @derekbjohnson.bsky.social spoke with @anthropic.com's threat intel team about Thursday's report. Lots in there, but one key takeaway: Despite being labeled as 'autonomous,' there was a tremendous amount of human effort needed to pull off the attacks. cyberscoop.com/anthropic-ai...

New from @timstarks.bsky.social: The phishing kit Lighthouse, which has aided text scams like those soliciting victims to pay unpaid road tolls, appears to have been disrupted after Google filed a civil lawsuit earlier this week: cyberscoop.com/lighthouse-t...

I have, like, 30 questions here and, like, 28 of them have nothing to do with direct attack

NEW: Operation Endgame targets malware networks in global crackdown -- Rhadamanthys infostealer , VenomRAT, and the Elysium botnet were targeted cyberscoop.com/operation-en...

NEW: @timstarks.bsky.social looks at President Trump’s dismissive remarks on cyber threats, and how they contrast sharply with his administration’s official calls for action, specifically China cyberscoop.com/trump-cyber-...

>Forced to re-enroll by YubiKey on Twitter >Do so >Try to log in >Tells me key isn't enrolled >Go through process again >Tells me key is already linked with account >Try again to log in >Prompted to send code >Click Send Code >re-directed to YubiKey re-enrollment Fire Elon into space forever

Another 764 arrest - Maryland man faces federal charges for crimes allegedly linked to 764: cyberscoop.com/erik-lee-mad...