Madhu Gottumukkala, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies during the DHS oversight hearing in the Cannon House office building on Jan. 21, 2026. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
Experts tell CyberScoop that the U.S. telecom system is just too technologically fragmented to gather a clear picture of threats, and too big to ever fully eject…
Seven sources tell CyberScoop that a lack of coordination and miscommunication between federal agencies and the telecommunications industry left critical networks exposed to the Chinese hacking group.
Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko allegedly committed ransomware attacks from 2018 to 2022. He’s been out on bond since his arrest almost a year ago, despite multiple run-ins with…
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 23: DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari prepares to depart a hearing. The DHS Inspector General is launching an audit of DHS privacy practices. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 03: (L-R) Chairman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ranking member Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) arrive for a hearing with the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., wants hearings to force AT&T and Verizon to disclose how they’ve responded to the hacks to protect telecom networks. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Sean Cairncross, as CEO of the Millenium Challenge Corporation, speaks onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. (Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)
A poll worker helps a person cast their ballot at Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church on December 2, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. Voters head to the polls to fill the house seat left vacant after the resignation of Republican Mark Green. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
Members of the Peoples Liberation Army band leave after the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, or CPPCC, at the Great Hall of the People on March 10, 2025 in Beijing. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
“Move fast and break things” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg onstage at the F8 conference 2014. (Mike Deerkoski via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)