The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

EXCLUSIVE: Not only does an Excel spreadsheet of Trump mentions in the Epstein files exist, but so do training videos explaining how to flag the files for Trump mentions. Plus, the number of people who had access is larger than previously known. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...

Chinese Group Hacks ‘Edge’ Devices in Ongoing Telecom Targeting A Chinese hacking group has continued to target phone and wireless providers around the world, compromising devices tied to seven telecommunications companies since February, according to a bulletin t...

Salt Typhoon "has breached network devices at locations on the internet that are owned by the seven companies, including the American telecom and media firm Comcast Corp..." Bloomberg reports:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Breaking: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem just sent all of her employees an email, "Reshaping of the DHS Workforce," about three options for staff to leave: resignation, retirement, or buyouts.

This appears to be part of DHS's Reduction In Force plan.

Text of DHS-wide “Reshaping of the DHS Workforce” email sent to all of DHS from Secretary Noem:

CISA to make comprehensive staff cuts in coming days, people familiar say The nation’s premier cybersecurity agency, which sits in the Department of Homeland Security, has been in the Trump administration’s crosshairs for some time.

Confirming other reports: CISA is expected to initiate efforts to significantly reduce its workforce in the coming days, including vast cuts to its industry contracting teams, according to four people familiar with the moves. w/ @notamazonalexa.bsky.social
www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

Big cuts are coming soon to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, per multiple reports, including layoffs of roughly a third of the workforce (Politico says much more) and terminations of major threat-hunting contracts.

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More sunlight in this please. We’re in the endgame now.

Contractors could hack back against adversaries, top cyber Democrat says Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said the federal government can’t protect everyone and the concept of asking private sector security companies to conduct offensive cyber operations is worth exploring.

Top cyber Democrat on House Homeland Security Committee Eric Swalwell suggests government contractors could be deployed to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign adversaries:
www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

Chinese hacking is becoming bigger, better and stealthier Experts say it is the main shift in the cyber-threat landscape in a decade

I wrote a piece on China’s evolution into a bigger, more sophisticated and more threatening cyber power over the past decade, and particularly in the last few years. I also look at the pivotal role played by China’s private sector ecosystem in that shift. www.economist.com/china/2025/0...

Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.

The Pentagon is about to brief Elon Musk on the US military’s plan for a potential war with China.

This means that Musk now has access to the country’s most important military secrets.

NEW: CISA employees are scared, angry, and worried about how Trump's cuts and policies are weakening their agency.

Partnerships are strained, leadership is bowing to Trump, and layoffs & other departures have left worrisome gaps.

My @wired.com story: www.wired.com/story/inside...

This is the FBI. China's Volt Typhoon is on your network Power utility GM talks to El Reg about getting that call and what happened next

Chilling at home on Friday eve, you get a call from the FBI. A voice asks for your personal email to send a link. What would you do?
It sounded like a Microsoft scam, said a GM we spoke to. He told them: "Go f-yourself, I'm not going to click on a link, you must think I'm an idiot." reg.cx/4g8F

Prominent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB Spy Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US.

Teenage DOGE worker Edward Coristine is grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov who was an officer in Line X - the technical espionage division of the KGB. Martynov became a double agent after FBI recruited him and began feeding Soviet secrets to the Bureau

www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

POLITICO Pro: Bipartisan state leaders urge Noem to keep CISA election security services The National Association of Secretaries of State laid out services used by states to enhance election security in a letter to DHS.

First in Politico: A coalition of bipartisan state secretaries of state are urging the Trump admin. not to cut key election security programs at CISA, such as cyber and physical security assessments, currently on pause and pending review. More for Pros: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

Scoop: Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old staffer in billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency with a reported history of interacting with hacking groups, has been given physical access to CISA with a DHS email.

Senior DHS official: CISA has terminated federally funded activities supporting the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

The idea that CISA was ever in the "censorship" business or part of the "censorship industrial complex" was complete nonsense made up by the likes of Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, and then laundered by Jim Jordan.

CISA coordinates important sharing of info on security threats.

Salt Typhoon hackers possibly targeted telecom research at US universities Recorded Future’s latest findings shed light on how widespread the Salt Typhoon campaign has become since it was uncovered last year.

New: Salt Typhoon may have targeted U.S. universities in an effort to access research in areas related to telecommunications and other technologies, according to findings from Recorded Future out today:
www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

OPM’s new email system sparks questions about cyber compliance Until very recently, the Office of Personnel Management lacked the capability to send mass emails to all federal employees, a person familiar said, fueling concerns that the agency bypassed procuremen...

Scoop: Up until very recently, OPM didn’t have the capability to send mass emails to all civilian federal employees, fueling concerns the agency bypassed cyber procurement rules before its recent mass email test to government employees:
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Shadowing Russian hybrid warfare ships in the Baltic Sea The cutting of underway cables in Europe indicate a shadow war between Russia and NATO is already underway. We joined a Lithuanian naval patrol seeking to push back against Russia’s tricks.

Really interesting read on the ongoing craziness happening with underseas internet cables:

www.counteroffensive.news/p/shadowing-...