A 26-year-old from Ontario faces as many as 32 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud, identity theft and conspiracy charges related to the 2024 hacks of cloud platform Snowflake.
As Chief of Defence Intelligence, General Sir Jim Hockenhull decided to declassify and publish what London knew of Russia’s plans to invade Ukraine, down to a map of the routes its forces would take.
A party-line vote in the Senate installed Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence, a job that has drawn increasing scrutiny during Donald Trump's second term as president.
Yevhenii Khmara, a major general with deep experience in intelligence, counterterrorism and long-range strikes against Russia, is Ukraine's new acting defense minister.
Senators pressed director of national intelligence nominee Jay Clayton about his stance on the 2020 election and previous statements about voter fraud. Other issues took a back seat.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against First VPN Service (1VPNS) and its Ukrainian administrator for aiding ransomware groups. Separately, a Belarusian man was sanctioned for malware "cryptors."
Stelios Kouloglou, formerly a member of the European Parliament's committee investigating abuses of commercial spyware, was twice infected with Pegasus while serving, researchers said.
Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assumed hands-on responsibility for overseeing the spending plans of intelligence agencies following the recent departure of Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a senior intelligence official who simultaneously served in multiple roles, including one at OMB.
Sean Plankey reportedly told colleagues that he needed to focus on assuaging concerns about his Coast Guard work that had led Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) to block his nomination.
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