Category: Cyberwarfare and Defense

Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations

The Trump administration has reassigned or forced out several dozen government employees who had been working to fight foreign interference in U.S. elections at multiple agencies, according to current and former officials.
Treasury Dept. Hits Chinese Tech Company With Sanctions After Breach

The agency imposed penalties on a company it blamed for supporting the Chinese hacking group Flax Typhoon in a 2022-23 infiltration.
U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese Drones, Citing National Security Concerns

The Commerce Department requested that private companies comment on the implications of the rule by March. The final decision will fall to the Trump administration.
China Hacked Treasury Dept. in ‘Major Incident,’ U.S. Says

The department notified lawmakers of the breach, which it said was linked to a state-sponsored actor in China.
Ukraine Weighs Telegram Security Risks Amid War With Russia

The messaging app’s popularity has soared during the war with Russia, leading Ukrainian officials to increasingly weigh Telegram’s upsides against its security risks.
How Russia Openly Escalated Its Election Interference Efforts

The Kremlin did not bother to hide its efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election, as it did in the past.
Meta Permits Its A.I. Models to Be Used for U.S. Military Purposes

The shift in policy, covering government agencies and contractors working on national security, is intended to promote “responsible and ethical” innovations, the company said.
What to Know About the Chinese Hackers Who Targeted the 2024 Campaigns

A group experts call Salt Typhoon is believed to be behind a sophisticated breach into major telecommunication companies that has taken aim at American leaders.
Chinese Hackers Are Said to Have Targeted Phones Used by Trump and Vance

The Trump campaign was informed this week that hackers may have gained access to data from the phones through a breach of American telecommunications systems.
Pakistan’s Internet Disruptions Stoke Fears of Government Surveillance

Disruptions have fueled claims from rights groups that the Pakistani authorities are introducing technology to surveil and control the country’s internet.
With Smugglers and Front Companies, China Is Skirting American A.I. Bans

The U.S. is trying to stop China from getting Nvidia microchips to advance its military. The private sector is fighting back.
After CrowdStrike Causes Outage, Are U.S. Networks Safe?

With each cascade of digital disaster, new vulnerabilities emerge. The latest chaos wasn’t caused by an adversary, but it provided a road map of American vulnerabilities at a critical moment.