China compromised GOP emails ahead of Republican convention • The Register - Notified in July of 2024, the Republic leadership opted to not notify the FBI or seek their assistance.
Hegseth orders suspension of Pentagon’s offensive cyberoperations against Russia | AP News - Hegseth can stop Pentagon, but not DHS:CISA or the CIA.
DHS says CISA will not stop monitoring Russian cyber threats - CISA says its still in the fight.
“The U.S. is prioritizing deterring war with China in the Pacific. Recognizing the reality of scarcity and making the resourcing trade-offs to ensure deterrence does not fail. Deterrence cannot fail.”
TSMC Intends to Expand Its Investment in the United States to US$165 Billion to Power the Future of AI - Company plans to increase U.S. investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing by $100 billion with three new fabs, two advanced packaging facilities and an R&D center added to U.S. plans
Swedish police probe water sabotage attempt on Gotland – DW – 03/03/2025 - Pumps destroyed at Gotland water plant by unknown saboteurs.
Incoming deputy head of DHS says CISA needs to be reined in • The Register - Edgar likely will receive an easy nomination, and reports from CISA are that they are picking up the CSRB’s SaltTyphoon investigation into the CALEA breaches.
Space Pirates Targets Russian IT Firms With New LuckyStrike Agent Malware Sticky Werewolf Uses Undocumented Implant to Deploy Lumma Stealer in Russia and Belarus
Fake GitHub projects distribute stealers in GitVenom campaign | Securelist - 200 fake GitHub projects result in half a million in stolen crypto and thousands in downloads.
Signal shuns Sweden over proposed encryption-busting laws • The Register - Sweden likely to follow in the UK’s footsteps to end E2EE (End-to-end encryption) as early as March 2026. Signal advised they would no longer be available in Sweden if this decision if made.
CISA’s KEV list informs ransomware attacks, paper suggests • The Register - KEV has unintended effect, showing the bad guys how other bad guys are successful and GreyNoise names top 3 worst vendors, Ivanti, D-Link, and VMware.
Google’s ‘consent-less’ Android tracking probed by academics • The Register - Google tracks you whether you use their services or not. And they’re not the only one.
Mozilla Updates Firefox Terms Again After Backlash Over Broad Data License Language - Firefox is having a rough week after removing language around selling user data.
New Auto-Color Linux backdoor targets North American govts, universities - New Linux backdoor, if executed with Root gives persistent remote access, if ran without root, allows remote access until box is restarted/rebooted/etc…
Have I Been Pwned adds 284M accounts stolen by infostealer malware - “We’ve also added 244M passwords we’ve never seen before to Pwned Passwords and updated the counts against another 199M that were already in there.”
GrassCall malware campaign drains crypto wallets via fake job interviews - More malicious job interviews