Catch up quick

@ D.C.

💥 Rep. Mike Waltz, who will be Trump's national security adviser, said over the weekend that U.S. cyber strategy needs to "start going on offense" in response to the Salt Typhoon hacks. (Politico)

🥊 Republican leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee and China Select Committee called for similar offensive measures in a new op-ed. (Fox News)

😬 Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are worried about what cuts the Trump administration will make at the agency, especially after it became a target of conservative criticism for saying the 2020 election was secure. (Wired)

@ Industry

🤖 Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company, left an internal AI chatbot it was developing exposed to the internet. (TechCrunch)

👀 U.S. private equity giant AE Industrial Partners has purchased Paragon, an Israeli spyware maker. (Haaretz)

💰 BlackBerry has sold endpoint security tool Cylance to Arctic Wolf for $160 million in cash. (CRN)

@ Hackers and hacks

⚠️ Hackers claim they stole sensitive data tied to hundreds of thousands of people after breaking an online portal where Rhode Island residents apply for government assistance. (New York Times)

🫠 An ongoing hacking campaign has been targeting security professionals over the last year via open-source packages, successfully stealing credentials belonging to at least 390,000 people so far. (Ars Technica)

❤️ Interpol will no longer use the common phrase "pig-butchering" when describing investment and romance scams. (Wired)