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Sam Sabin

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@axios cybersecurity reporter, taking it day by day ✨ | 📩: sam.sabin@axios dot com, signal: SamSabin.01 (no pitches!)

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EXCLUSIVE: Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during Trump's second term — cutting the agency's total workforce by nearly a third. axios.com/2025/06/03/cis…

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new in today's Axios Future of Cybersecurity: The Trump admin is proposing cutting ~1K jobs at CISA in FY26. But those cuts aren't new, they all already happened. Roughly 600 people alone voluntarily left as part of DRP 2, one source confirmed. axios.com/2025/06/03/cis…

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Source: ~1,000 people have left the CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third (Sam Sabin / Axios) axios.com/2025/06/03/cis… techmeme.com/250603/p41#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

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New: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has already lost ~1,000 employees to Trump's workforce purge, with the marquee Cybersecurity Division hit hard and many departures from the agency's field force of local cyber advisers. cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-depa… Confirming Sam Sabin's scoop.

New: <a href="/CISAgov/">Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency</a> has already lost ~1,000 employees to Trump's workforce purge, with the marquee Cybersecurity Division hit hard and many departures from the agency's field force of local cyber advisers. cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-depa… 

Confirming <a href="/samsabin923/">Sam Sabin</a>'s scoop.
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Actors that bear the hallmarks of Scattered Spider are now targeting the insurance industry. They have a habit of working their way through a sector. Insurance companies should be on the lookout for social engineering schemes targeting their call centers.

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Scattered Spider is now targeting the aviation and transportation sectors, Google + Palo Alto Networks warned today. A source says the group was likely behind last week's attack on WestJet. It's also possible they targeted Hawaiian Airlines this week. axios.com/2025/06/27/avi…

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Mandiant is now aware of multiple incidents in the airline sector that resemble Scattered Spider. The industry should button up its call centers where this actor has had a lot of success with social engineering. axios.com/2025/06/27/avi…

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a majority of local election officials say they need more funding and support from states to offset the Trump admin's cuts to federal election security programs, according to a new Brennan Center poll. new on Axios axios.com/2025/07/10/ele…

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CISA spent years building out its role as the country's go-to partner on cybersecurity issues. piece by piece, that work is being dismantled as workforce reductions and budget cuts hit the agency. more from today's Axios future of cyber newsletter: axios.com/2025/07/15/cis…

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Update: Microsoft has released security updates that fully protect customers using all supported versions of SharePoint affected by CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771.

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Microsoft says three China-based hacking groups, including two gov't teams, have been targeting the SharePoint vuln since at least July 7 🫠 axios.com/2025/07/22/mic…

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the tally of compromised Microsoft SharePoint servers has surpassed 400, according to Eye Security. that's up from a few dozen just two days ago. Axios axios.com/2025/07/23/mic…