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...

Was just brought to a screeching halt in the CyberScoop news room once @derekbjohnson.bsky.social informed me that the White House was using DoorDash as an economic indicator

I know everyone is rightfully worked up over this govt funding bill but @timstarks.bsky.social and I found the cyber angle: if passed, CISA 2015 would go back into law until Jan 30 2026 cyberscoop.com/cisa-2015-sh...

NEW: @timstarks.bsky.social and I confirmed WaPo story that CBO was hacked by a suspected foreign actor - cyberscoop.com/congressiona...

my response to this is the loudest OK BRO you've ever heard in your life

oh inject this directly into my veins

Tried to buy one at the height of the market and I’ll never forget the Ford dealership I called laughing at me and hanging up when I asked what was in stock. Really wanted these to succeed www.wsj.com/business/aut...

NEW: After all of that, a federal judge has reimposed a sentence on Paige Thompson, the former Amazon Web Services engineer convicted in the 2019 Capital One data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 100 million people. cyberscoop.com/court-reimpo...

Can you send it to Nate Cohn in the company Slack?

Another update: Participants tell @timstarks.bsky.social: “Post-shutdown deferments will do little to help our situation — our biggest blocker is the crusade against federal hiring and public sector cybersecurity overall...please, let’s keep the conversation going.” cyberscoop.com/opm-nsf-cybe...

UPDATE: OPM tells @timstarks.bsky.social that once the shutdown is over, it plans to grant CyberCorps participants more time to find jobs without fear the gov't will collect on the student loans cyberscoop.com/opm-nsf-cybe...

NEW: Federal prosecutors allege that 3 cybersecurity professionals, whose job was to help companies respond to ransomware attacks, instead used ALPHV/BlackCat to carry out their own attacks against five U.S. businesses in 2023. cyberscoop.com/incident-res...

NEW: @timstarks.bsky.social spoke with some CyberCorps participants who have had federal agency job and internship offers rescinded this year due to cutbacks. Those who can’t find employment there will see their grants, often reaching six-figure sums, converted into loans after 18 months.

Shot in the dark here: Any lawyer out there that can help me decipher a federal sentencing document ASAP? DM me

One of the nicest and well-liked dudes ive ever come across in my professional career. RIP

An ex-L3 Harris executive pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of trade secrets Wednesday, admitting to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars.  cyberscoop.com/peter-willia...

BREAKING: ex-L3Harris exec Peter Williams pleads guilty to two counts of theft of trade secrets, sold eight exploits to Russian zero-day purchasing company. Sentencing in January 2026. Story to come.

Guess we are asking too much of DHS to have contractors refer to its subagencies by their correct title

Does Issac Chotiner, like, spoof his phone calls or lie to people he interviews? How does he keep getting away with it?