Hello. China’s cyber-espionage capabilities are now as sophisticated as the U.S.’s and are increasingly targeting Western defense industries, said the head of Dutch military intelligence.

Dutch Vice Adm. Peter Reesink made the comments after his agency, known in Dutch as MIVD, released an annual report Tuesday that said Beijing is a growing threat to Europe alongside Russia and that the two countries’ cooperation compounds the danger. Read the full WSJ story.

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• Navy tells sailors to lock down their smartphones amid Iran war
• Lawmakers weigh labeling some cyberattacks 'terrorism'
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• Sailors should turn off location tracking, cameras and microphones and set phones to the highest privacy levels, a Navy directive​ on threat awareness and cyber hygiene said.
• The memo also recommended deleting personal information that surfaces in Google searches.

When is a cyberattack an act of terrorism? Ransomware and other hacks against hospitals should be viewed as terrorism and carry murder charges, if warranted, Cynthia Kaiser, head of Halcyon's ransomware research center, told a House hearing Tuesday. The hearing discussed ways to boost punishments for convicted hackers. (CyberScoop)

• Related reading from WSJ Pro: The Treasury Department is taking public comments about updating the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program to include, “cyber-related losses arising from acts of terrorism,” among other revisions.

The top U.S. cyber agency doesn't have access to Anthropic's Mythos... The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has received a briefing about the powerful AI model but hasn't been able to test it hands-on. (Axios)

...but unauthorized users do, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter associated with a third-party company doing business with Anthropic. A small group of people connected on Discord is using Mythos without permission, the person said.

• Anthropic gave a preview version of Mythos to a limited number of companies, including Amazon, CrowdStrike, Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks, among others. (WSJ)

• Bank account numbers, health insurance information, Social Security numbers and other details were breached, the company's law firm said.

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