Chip Childers

Seems like a good time to repost this…

I truly hope that the USG isn't completely dropping efforts to monitor / defend against foreign disinformation campaigns... but that seems increasingly to be the situation.

New alert from CISA: "Fast flux represents a persistent threat to network security, leveraging rapidly changing infrastructure to obfuscate malicious activity."

www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

Don’t cut CISA personnel, House panel leaders say, as they plan legislation giving the agency more to do Reps. Andrew Garbarino and Eric Swalwell said legislative priorities include an expiring information-sharing law and making a threat information-sharing organization permanent.

"He wants to carve out a specific role for CISA under the expiring 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act — the subject of a planned hearing next month — and keep CISA involved in administering the expiring $1 billion, four-year state and local grant(s)"

cyberscoop.com/cisa-workfor...

I guess we'll have to pay to get our B-2's back?

UK Defence Journal tricks Russian state media An April Fools’ Day article published by the UK Defence Journal was mistakenly reported as fact by Russian state media outlet RT.

Does this say something about the gullibility of RT editors, or is the real lesson that even they know their propaganda is utterly ridiculous?

ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-defence-j...

Suspicious OPM email ignored by entire government thanks to cyber awareness training “Thank you, Jeff! Thank you, Tina! Your service is not forgotten."

LOL

www.duffelblog.com/p/suspicious...

I'm fairly confident that the admin doesn't understand how Mercator projection works.

Silk Typhoon shifted to specifically targeting IT management companies The Chinese state-backed espionage group started targeting third-party IT services in late 2024, Microsoft researchers said.

"The Chinese state-backed threat group Silk Typhoon shifted tactics in late 2024 to broaden access and enable follow-on attacks against downstream customers of its initial targets"

cyberscoop.com/silk-typhoon...

PHP-CGI RCE Flaw Exploited in Attacks on Japan's Tech, Telecom, and E-Commerce Sectors Hackers exploit CVE-2024-4577 to breach Japanese firms, leveraging Cobalt Strike, PowerShell, and advanced persistence techniques.

"Threat actors of unknown provenance have been attributed to a malicious campaign predominantly targeting organizations in Japan since January 2025."

thehackernews.com/2025/03/php-...

Canadian intelligence agency warns of threat AI poses to upcoming elections Influence and espionage campaigns, boosted by AI, are likely to be aimed at Canada's upcoming elections, says a new report from the CSE, the country's signals and cyber intelligence agency.

“By possessing detailed profiles of key targets, social networks, and voter psychographics, threat actors are almost certainly enhancing their capabilities to conduct targeted influence and espionage campaigns”

therecord.media/canada-cyber...

Under Pressure: US Charges China's APT-for-Hire Hackers The US Justice Department on Wednesday announced charges against members of the Chinese-backed i-Soon "secret" APT and APT27, the latter implicated in January's Treasury breach.

"The US Justice Department on Wednesday announced charges against members of the Chinese-backed i-Soon 'secret' APT and APT27, the latter implicated in January's Treasury breach."

www.darkreading.com/threat-intel...

I think this is the first public pushback on Putin / Russia since he took office... This is a good thing. More of this.

France is really starting to wake up

1939 Charles Lindbergh would be so proud of his movement today.

1942 Charles Lindbergh would be pretty upset.

I doubt Mike Johnson is speaking from a position of authority on this topic. I know he is getting direct pressure from GOP reps that are in the "pro-Ukraine" camp. This is his way to act like he's in the know.

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Sigh... Sweden is attempting to demand the same "backdoor" capabilities for encrypted communication apps that the UK tried to get from Apple.

www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

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Interesting statement from CISA, given the press reports to the contrary.

And I’m sure Ukraine will happily accept once Russians go the hell home, give them their children back, and stop launching drones / missies / bombs at Ukrainian cities.

This is absolutely wild. We’re entering a new era of disinformation, and the current era has demonstrated how completely unprepared we are as a species to withstand disinformation campaigns.

Technological leaps are making it MUCH worse.

This is going to be very bad.

These are Government Digital Service employees from "the before times". GDS was renamed / recast as this new DOGE thing.

Auto-Color: An Emerging and Evasive Linux Backdoor The new Linux malware named Auto-color uses advanced evasion tactics. Discovered by Unit 42, this article cover its installation, evasion features and more. The new Linux malware named Auto-color uses advanced evasion tactics. Discovered by Unit 42, this article cover its installation, evasion features and more.

"Once installed, Auto-color allows threat actors full remote access to compromised machines, making it very difficult to remove without specialized software."

unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/new-linux-ba...

Trump and others want to ramp up cyber offense, but there’s plenty of doubt about the idea Amid rising cyber threats, experts and lawmakers debate the effectiveness of the United States' aggressive offensive cyber strategies.

When it comes to offensive cyber operations, the question of strategic ambiguity vs. transparent application of capabilities is an important one, but I'm fairly confident the answer is that we (the US) need both. cyberscoop.com/aggressive-c...

Go Birds 🦅

An inside look at NSA (Equation Group) TTPs from China’s lense

Really interesting write up of China’s attribution of a breach to the NSA.

www.inversecos.com/2025/02/an-i...

Poll says 63% of Ukrainians approve of Zelenskyy’s performance and 74% see him as patriot Two-thirds of Ukrainians completely approve or tend to approve of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s performance as president of Ukraine, while 14.4% completely disapprove of his performance.

Seems like a healthy democracy that's pretty comfortable with their current leadership, all while defending itself from a genocidal horde ->

www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

The UK gov is making a huge mistake by asking for encryption backdoors.

And here we go again.... FML