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The Kazakhstan flag is shown before the finals of Kok-boru Finals against Kyrgyzstan during the World Nomad Games at the Hippodrome Racetrack on September 6, 2026 in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. Turla, a notorious cyberespionage group aligned with the Russian government, has been wielding a new, customizable toolset to compromise governments around the world over the past year, including Kazakhstan. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Russian Turla group used new toolset to silently pilfer emails from Kazakhstan, Romanian governments

Nicknamed “Turla’s Cereal,” the tools target Microsoft Exchange servers and lack many obvious indicators of compromise or malicious telemetry, per a new ESET report.
The Palantir logo is displayed on a smartphone screen placed on a reflective surface onto which a stock market chart is projected in Creteil, France, on November 4, 2026. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto)

Trump picks Palantir’s LoSapio to head CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has gone without a Senate-confirmed director for all of Trump’s second term, and Michael LoSapio could face resistance, too.
Wanda Jones-Heath (left), Principal Cyber Advisor, Dept. of Air Force, talks with Rick Stewart, Sr. Engineer at Datadog, at the Threat Response Forum on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. (Carlin Fisher/Scoop News Group)

Air Force cyber official: need to invest in digital forensics

Wanda Jones-Heath said it’s key to keeping pace with incidents and threats, speaking at a Datadog event Thursday.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., speaks as U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan testifies at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on Capitol Hill on June 11, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

What Democratic control of Congress means for cybersecurity

There’s a lame-duck session before Dems take over, but the leaders of the homeland security panels are already teeing up their agendas.
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