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Despite support from the Trump administration, reauthorization of the legislation faces some obstacles, including a tight timeline and the fact that it is unclear who in House and Senate leadership will champion the legislation at a time when many other urgent competing bills are vying for attention.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton and 16 other GOP lawmakers wrote this week to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, saying his department should block future sales of TP-Link’s popular small office/home office (SOHO) internet routers.

His remarks echo recent comments Commissioner Melissa Holyoak made in her personal capacity during a speech at a privacy conference, but are a more significant indicator of the agency’s new position on the issue given that he was speaking to lawmakers on behalf of the agency.

Dave Luber, a 38-year NSA veteran, is taking advantage of the early retirement option being offered by the agency as it aims to shed 8 percent of its civilian staff.

In a deal set to close later this year, cybersecurity giant Proofpoint is acquiring German firm Hornetsecurity, which specializes in protecting companies from risks associated with Microsoft 365.

About a third of the case file archive of Pravosudiye — Russia's national electronic court filing system — was deleted in a previously reported cyberattack, auditors said. A pro-Ukrainian group has claimed the intrusion.

Russia-linked hackers known as APT28 mainly targeted entities in Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania, but governments in Africa, South America and other parts of Europe were also affected.

Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase said an attacker tried to extort the company for $20 million over stolen data. "We said no," Coinbase said, and instead offered that amount as a bounty.

An network intrusion at Nova Scotia Power in March led to a breach of sensitive customer data, the Canadian utility said in an update about the incident.

"US retailers should take note" of recent cyberattacks on British companies, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group, as the financially motivated collective known as Scattered Spider appears to be connected.

In an 8-K filing with federal regulators, Nucor said the incident involved “unauthorized third party access to certain information technology systems” but did not explain further.

A cyberattack first detected over Easter weekend has reportedly already cost Marks & Spencer more than £60 million.

Russian authorities restricted mobile internet access from May 5 to May 9, citing security concerns related to the preparation and celebration of the Victory Day parade in Moscow.

A Russian military cadet reportedly developed an algorithm that could bypass the protective infrastructure of law enforcement software and gain access to restricted data.

The state's Office of Information Technology (OIT) said it has called in two incident response teams for around-the-clock mitigation following a "cybersecurity event” discovered last week.

A 33-year-old Kosovo citizen, Liridon Masurica, has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges related to his alleged role in operating an illegal online marketplace.

Earth Ammit, as the group is known, launched two waves of campaigns from 2023 to 2024, affecting a range of industries including military, satellite, heavy industry, media, technology, software services and healthcare.

A group tracked as APT37 or ScarCruft is once again phishing South Korean organizations with national security interests, according to analysts at cybersecurity firm Genians.

The European Union launched on Tuesday its new vulnerability database to provide aggregated information regarding cybersecurity issues affecting various products and services.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said the state is responding to a "cybersecurity event" that has prompted government IT staff to work "around-the-clock to identify and mitigate impacts."