DHS Boss Noem Vows to Get CISA Back 'On Mission'

Secretary Noem asks the cybersecurity community to get in touch with CISA to help reshape the agency to focus on finding efficiencies.

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DHS Boss Noem Vows to Get CISA Back 'On Mission'‎‎‎ Secretary Noem asks the cybersecurity community to get in touch with CISA to help reshape the agency to focus on finding efficiencies.‎‎‎ Keep Reading →

Phishers Take Advantage of Iberian Blackout Before It's Even Over‎‎‎ Opportunistic threat actors targeted Portuguese and Spanish speakers by spoofing Portugal's national airline in a campaign offering compensation for delayed or disrupted flights.‎‎‎

Adversaries Are Toying With US Networks & DC Is Short on Answers‎‎‎ While nation-state actors are demonstrating how easily they can infiltrate US networks, government officials don't seem to have a clear vision for what comes next.‎‎‎

DARPA Highlights Critical Infrastructure Security Challenges‎‎‎ Leaders at federal research organizations DARPA, ARPA-I, and ARPA-H discussed the myriad obstacles in addressing critical infrastructure security at RSAC Conference 2025.‎‎‎

Former CISA Head Slams Trump Admin Over 'Loyalty Mandate'‎‎‎ Jen Easterly, former director of CISA, discussed the first 100 days of the second Trump administration and criticized the president's "mandate for loyalty" during a panel at RSAC 2025.‎‎‎

Prolific RansomHub Operation Goes Dark‎‎‎ The chat infrastructure and data-leak site of the notorious ransomware-as-a-service group has been inactive since March 31, according to security vendors.‎‎‎

DR GLOBAL

TheWizards APT Casts a Spell on Asian Gamblers With Novel Attack‎‎ A SLAAC-spoofing, adversary-in-the-middle campaign is hiding the WizardNet backdoor malware inside updates for legitimate software and popular applications.‎‎

DR GLOBAL

Billbug Expands Cyber-Espionage Campaign in Southeast Asia‎‎ The China-linked cyber-operations group, better known as Lotus Panda, uses its own custom malware to focus on government agencies and private companies in Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.‎‎

THE EDGE

Debunking Security 'Myths' to Address Common Gaps‎‎ Dan Gorecki and Scott Brammer's interactive session during RSAC Conference 2025 encourages security professionals to rethink their security postures and address evolving and emerging risks.‎‎

DR TECHNOLOGY

Cisco Boosts XDR Platform, Splunk With Agentic AI‎‎ Cisco joins the agentic AI wave with the introduction of advanced LLMs to autonomously verify and investigate attacks.‎‎

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