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PHOTO: GRAEME SLOAN/BLOOMBERG
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U.S. cybersecurity activity would suffer in another DHS shutdown, Madhu Gottumukkala, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said at a House hearing Wednesday. CISA, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, would have to furlough about 1,400 of its 2,341 employees, he said.
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CISA would respond to imminent threats but not be able to do strategic planning and its ability to help federal agencies with cyber matters would be "degraded," Gottumukkala said. (CyberScoop)
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Current funding for DHS expires Friday.
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Anthropic and OpenAI are being pressured by the Pentagon to make their AI tools available for classified networks without some of the limits currently in place, such as restrictions on domestic surveillance and autonomous targeting of weapons. (Reuters)
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German lawmakers are writing legislation to allow offensive cyber operations outside the country. That includes taking down the tech infrastructure of adversarial hacking groups. A new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command in Germany's military would oversee such activities. (Express UK)
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Cyberattacks on local governments take a financial bite. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Wednesday freed up $1.2 million for the city of St. Paul to improve its defenses after a hack in July required recovery help from the state's National Guard. Some city systems are still down. (KSTP)
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The North Carolina town of Carolina Beach lost more than $487,000 in two hacks in December, officials said Wednesday, declining to provide details about the attacks. Mayor Lynn Barbee said the town had been upgrading its cybersecurity after an assessment last year by the state's National Guard. (Port City Daily)
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626,540
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Number of patients whose health and personal details were breached after a ransomware attack at medical biller ApolloMD Business Services. The Qilin group claimed responsibility for the May 2025 incident, saying at the time it had stolen 238 gigabytes of data.
Eleven medical practices were affected in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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Donna Hart joined SMBC Americas as CISO for the Americas division of Tokyo financial services firm SMBC Group. Hart, who will be based in Charlotte, N.C., most recently served as CISO at Ally Financial for five years. Before that, she was in IT and security at Wells Fargo for more than two decades.
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Aviation tech provider Jeppesen ForeFlight promoted Ron Wood to CISO from director of cybersecurity, a post he had held since 2022. (CXO Digital Pulse)
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Salesforce hired Iain Mulholland as CISO. He was previously deputy CISO at Google Cloud for just under four years.
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Vega Security raised $120 in a Series B round led by Accel, a spokeswoman for the startup said. Vega makes tools for securing data in the cloud and other storage systems.
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Paris-based GitGuardian raised $50 million in Series C financing led by Insight Partners. GitGuardian focuses on securing AI agents and managing bot identities.
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