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Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard Is Hunting for 2020 Election Fraud

By Kim S. Nash

 

Hello. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has spent months investigating the results of the 2020 election that Donald Trump lost, according to White House officials, a role that took her to a related FBI search of an election center in Georgia on Wednesday.

The national intelligence director is usually focused on ensuring the president has the best intelligence available to make national-security decisions. Gabbard has been sidelined from some of those deliberations.

She is expected to prepare a report on her work, White House officials said. The administration has discussed executive orders on voting ahead of the midterm elections. Read the full WSJ story.

More news below.

Correction: Audax Private Equity is looking to sell network security provider BlueCat Networks. An item in Wednesday's newsletter mistakenly referred to Audax Group. 

 

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More Cyber News

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To surveil or not to surveil? Anthropic and the Defense Department are at odds over how to Claude AI models. Anthropic’s terms and conditions dictate that Claude can’t be used for any actions related to domestic surveillance. That limits how law-enforcement agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation could deploy it. 

  • The tension could lead to the cancellation of the Pentagon contract, which was worth up to $200 million when it was signed last year. (WSJ)
  • CEO Dario Amodei outlined fears about AI’s use in both mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons capabilities in a recent essay. 

Ex-Google insider convicted: A former Google engineer was convicted Thursday in federal court in San Francisco of stealing AI trade secrets from the tech firm on behalf of two Chinese companies. Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, faces decades in prison for economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. Among the materials stolen were chip blueprints and information about Google's supercomputing data centers. (Reuters)

Match Group is notifying users of its dating apps of a recent cyberattack that exposed their personal information. The ShinyHunters hacking group claimed responsibility as part of a campaign compromising Okta identity-management accounts. The group said it had files about Hinge, Match and OkCupid users. (Bleeping Computer)

This week on the Dow Jones Risk Journal Podcast:

  • Sanctions have pushed oil trade into the shadows, creating a vast fleet of poorly regulated tankers and a growing risk to global shipping, maritime safety and the environment.
  • Also, the U.S. plan for Venezuelan oil money has issues. James Rundle hosts.

🎧 Listen to new episodes every Friday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon.

 

From Dow Jones Risk Journal

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Cybercrime surge related to World Cup. Cybercriminals are very likely to view the World Cup as an opportune time to ramp up operations. Watch for fake ticketing sites, indiscriminate phishing and fraudulent streaming sites. Ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, cyber firm Group-IB reported more than 16,000 suspect domains and dozens of fake social media accounts, ads and mobile apps.

Read the full analysis, or sign up for a free trial of Dow Jones Risk Journal.

 

About Us

The WSJ Pro Cybersecurity team is Deputy Bureau Chief Kim S. Nash and reporters Angus Loten and James Rundle. Follow us on X @WSJCyber. Reach the team by replying to any newsletter you receive or by emailing Kim at kim.nash@wsj.com.

 
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