US charges and extradites 33-year-old Ukrainian woman for her alleged role in pro-Russia hacking group that caused spillage at a Texas water plant and an ammonia leak at a meat processing plant in LA. www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/p...

8 Brickstorm 🇨🇳 malware samples via CISA (1 from IR): www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

Wall Street banks scramble to assess fallout from hack of real-estate data firm www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/b...

North Korean operatives have created a convincing (but fake) job-application platform out of whole cloth, targeting applicants of major AI firms like Anthropic: www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/p...

"Videos verified by CNN also support witness reports about the deadly toll of the post-election crackdown [in #Tanzania], showing morgues overflowing with scores of bodies." www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/a...

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Important reporting from colleagues Brianna Keilar, @halbritz.bsky.social, @ikhurshudyan.bsky.social: A Navy officer who was set to become the 1st woman in a Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her appointment abruptly canceled w/ little explanation. www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

"In dozens of interviews in villages on Venezuela’s breathtaking northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had indeed been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists or leaders of a cartel or gang." apnews.com/article/trum...

Chinese state-backed hackers suspected in breach of Congressional Budget Office: www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Chinese state-backed hackers suspected in breach of Congressional Budget Office: www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Two men who previously worked for ransomware-recovery firms have been indicted in Florida and accused of using the ALPHV/Black Cat ransomware to hack multiple US firms, and then trying to extort them for millions: www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

Good reporting from @timstarks.bsky.social on recipients of a prestigious cybersecurity scholarship feeling left high and dry (and in a lot of debt) because of government cuts: cyberscoop.com/cyber-schola...

Justice Department tells Congress Trump doesn’t need its approval for military strikes on alleged drug boats www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/p...

In an unprecedented situation, tens of millions of Americans could lose access to a crucial food assistance program starting on Saturday amid the federal government shutdown.

Inside the Trump team's debates on what to do with Venezuela during his first term, and what that could mean for the military buildup going on right now - from @cnn.com 's Katie Bo Lillis, Sean Lyngaas and Kylie Atwood

The CIA hacked and disrupted a computer network used by Venezuela’s security service in Trump’s 1st term, one of a series of covert actions US agencies took or considered taking as Trump increased pressure on Maduro: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

Former US defense contractor employee pleads guilty to selling hacking tools to buyer in Russia www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

The CIA hacked and disrupted a computer network used by Venezuela’s security service in Trump’s 1st term, one of a series of covert actions US agencies took or considered taking as Trump increased pressure on Maduro: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

2020 election deniers and allies amass power, in and out of the Trump administration www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

One time I had to email you three different times because I kept misspelling your last name. We had known each other for years at this point.

NBC needs a slow, minor-key variation of “Roundball Rock” to put underneath these gambling stories

Trump pardons convicted Binance founder CZ: www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Russian strikes plunge parts of Kyiv into darkness and kill a 7-year-old boy in Zaporizhzhia, according to Ukrainian officials: www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/e...

Prominent American law firms continue to be breached by suspected Chinese intelligence operatives: www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...

Important story from @natashabertrand.bsky.social & @zcohencnn.bsky.social, a reminder of the power of the OLC. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Suspected Chinese state actors used ChatGPT to help write proposals to conduct mass-surveillance of Uyghurs and to scan social media for taboo content, OpenAI finds www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/p...

New: DOJ has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers—justifying an open-ended war against suspected smugglers, now considered by the US to be enemy combatants. www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Hacker stole FEMA and border patrol data in months-long breach www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

UK authorities have arrested a man in his 40s in West Sussex in connection with the cyberattack that caused flight cancellations at Heathrow and other airports in Europe: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/uk-arre...

Suspected Chinese hackers infiltrate US law firms, software developers amid trade fight with US: www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

👋 I'm back on the job today after several weeks of family leave. Still covering cyber and national security, law enforcement and other issues in the public interest. Signal remains SNLyng.11.

ChatGPT confesses it “gave the illusion of sentient companionship” and “blurred the line between imaginative role-play and reality” in validating the ideas and mental state of a man who had manic episodes and delusions of grandeur: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

A year after Butler, what has and hasn’t changed at the Secret Service? A close look inside the agency and the frustration among many for what they see as a lack of accountability for the security failures that day www.cnn.com/2025/07/12/p...

New --> Suspected Chinese hackers have broken into email accounts at a powerful DC law firm. Likely intelligence gathering. Scoop from Annie Grayer and me www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/p...

Daniil Kasatkin, a ~professional Russian basketball player~ has been arrested in France at the request of the United States, which are accusing him of being part of a ransomware group. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

A scathing 14-page internal US government assessment obtained by CNN outlined serious concerns over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's application to deliver aid to Gazans. Scoop from Yahya Abou-Ghazala & @jmhansler.bsky.social: www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/u...

“He is one of the first hackers linked to Chinese intelligence services to be captured by the FBI,” the bureau's Houston field office crowed: www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/p...

“We believe that the attacker is aware that the State Department’s email server is apparently configured to accept all messages and does not emit a ‘bounce’ response even when the address does not exist," -- @citizenlab www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/p...

New —> There’s frustration inside the State Department as Iranian activists plead for funding for internet access via Starlink — & tech to evade the Iranian regime’s censorship — but those programs are stalled. w/ Kylie Atwood & @jmhansler www.cnn.com/2025/07/03/p...

North Korea is set to triple its number of troops in Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian intelligence assessment seen by CNN: edition.cnn.com/2025/07/02/e...

Another iteration of Chinese intelligence services' keen interest in the US Navy: www.foxnews.com/us/two-chine...

It’s fair to look askance at the timing here. With Iran’s proxies reeling and the country itself hit hard by nearly two weeks of U.S. and Israeli strikes, threatening an email dump may be one of its few available avenues for revenge.

“The hacker tracked people coming in and out of the US Embassy in Mexico City before zeroing in on the FBI’s assistant legal attache”

“A Mexican drug cartel hired a hacker to surveil the movements of a senior FBI official in Mexico City in 2018 or earlier, gathering information from the city’s camera system that allowed the cartel to kill potential FBI informants.” Shocking story from @snlyngaas.bsky.social, well worth reading.

A Mexican drug cartel hired a hacker to surveil the movements of a senior FBI official in Mexico City in 2018 or earlier, gathering information from the city’s camera system that allowed the cartel to kill potential FBI informants, the Justice Department inspector general said in a new report.

Circa 2018, as the FBI was working on the El Chapo case, the Sinaloa cartel hired a hacker to track the movements of a senior FBI official around Mexico City, a newly released DOJ audit says. The cartel then user the info to kill potential FBI informants: www.cnn.com/2025/06/28/p...

In a new statement tonight, the FBI confirms that Scattered Spider (the rampant cyber criminal group) has been targeting the airline sector:

DOGE-driven cuts make it harder for the US government to prepare for potential retaliation from Iran, current and former officials say: www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/p...

Clerics in Qom react to the US airstrikes: www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/w...

"Hegseth didn’t provide details of the investigation, but did confirm the classified [intel] assessment & its findings, saying its conclusions are 'low confidence.' The comments came after both Trump & Rubio referred to the news reports as fake stories." www.politico.eu/article/us-p...