Congress should also require the administration to establish a robust outbound investment screening process that prioritizes sectoral bans on American investments in Chinese military-linked companies:
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Biden’s cybersecurity plan has a huge funding gap

Mark Montgomery and Michael Sugden in The Hill: thehill.com/opinion/cybers…

📰 via DefenseScoop:
Microsoft has deployed the GPT-4 large language model in an isolated, air-gapped Azure Government Top Secret cloud for use by the Department of Defense, the company announced Tuesday.
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📰 via Reuters:
The United States announced cyber-related sanctions on Russian national Dmitriy Yurevich Khoroshev on Tuesday, who it described as a senior leader of the LockBit ransomware group.
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Washington sanctioned and indicted Iranian companies and individuals involved in malicious cyber activity targeting U.S. government entities and critical infrastructure.
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📰 via The Record From Recorded Future News:
The government of China’s objective in deploying Volt Typhoon hackers to break into U.S. critical infrastructure is to “cause disruption and sow societal panic,” a senior cybersecurity official said Tuesday.
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📰 via Reuters:
Britain, the U.S. and Australia have sanctioned and unmasked a senior Russian leader of the notorious cybercrime gang LockBit, the British government said on Tuesday.
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📰 via The New York Times:
The personal information of British army, navy and air force members has been hacked in a significant data breach, raising alarm over a growing threat from cyberattacks by hostile states, Britain’s defense secretary said on Tuesday.
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📰 via @DefenseNews:
The U.S. is gaining valuable insights about the performance of its technologies amid electronic interference as Ukrainian troops use them on the front lines, according to one official.
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📰 via The New York Times:
The day Edmundo González was plucked from obscurity and chosen to take on South America’s longest ruling authoritarian leader, technicians were busy making sure his home was not wiretapped.
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📰 via @TheRecordMedia:
A Russian operator of once one of the world’s largest virtual currency exchanges, BTC-e, pleaded guilty to participating in a money laundering scheme, according to a statement by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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📰 via @TheRecordMedia:
Germany has recalled its ambassador to Russia following alleged Moscow-backed cyberattacks targeting the country’s defense, aerospace, and IT companies, as well as the German Social Democratic Party.
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📰 via @CyberScoopMedia:
A White House national security memorandum outlining how the government helps defend critical infrastructure from physical and digital attacks leaves gaps that only Congress can fill, experts warn.
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.Treasury Department and the European Union designated Hamas leaders responsible for the terror group’s cyber warfare and production of unmanned aerial vehicles.

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📰 via The New York Times:
American and Chinese diplomats plan to meet later this month to begin what amounts to the first, tentative arms control talks over the use of artificial intelligence.
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In February, Huawei signed an agreement to upgrade the UAE’s 5G network. If Abu Dhabi reverses course, it could improve the F-35 deal’s prospects.

More from Hussain Abdul-Hussain in this month's Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: fdd.org/analysis/2024/…

📰 via The Record From Recorded Future News:
Ukraine’s government is reporting an increase in financially motivated cyberattacks conducted by previously unidentified hackers associated with Russia.
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.Homeland Security established the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board. Consisting of leaders in technology, critical infrastructure, government, and academia, the board will provide recommendations on how best to prepare for disruptions related to AI: fdd.org/analysis/2024/…

📰 via The Record From Recorded Future News:
Hackers connected to the government of North Korea are exploiting loopholes in email security systems to send spoofed messages that look legitimate, allowing them to pose as journalists or academics.
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📰 via CyberScoop:
A pair of far-right media outlets’ websites were hacked and defaced late Thursday, with subscriber and other internal site data leaked as part of an apparent politically motivated attack.
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