Catch up quick

@ D.C.

👀 Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are now allowed to take the Trump administration's deferred resignation offer after DHS initially said they would be exempted. (Nextgov)

💰 The Trump administration agreed to temporarily restrict DOGE's access to Treasury's payment system information. (Axios)

❌ Lawmakers introduced a bill that would ban DeepSeek from government-owned devices. (Wall Street Journal)

@ Industry

🚪 The British government has secretly ordered Apple to create a back door in its encryption that would let officials retrieve all content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud. (Washington Post)

📈 SolarWinds has entered an agreement to delist from the New York Stock Exchange and be acquired by private equity firm Turn/River Capital. (Seeking Alpha)

💸 Semgrep, which makes software to help engineers find security flaws in their source code, raised a $100 million Series D round led by Menlo Ventures. (Wall Street Journal)

@ Hackers and hacks

🚔 Spanish police arrested a hacker accused of attacking the U.S. Army, the United Nations, the International Civil Aviation Organization, NATO and government offices in Spain. (The Record)

🏨 A hacker listed a sample of a database allegedly stolen from the Trump Hotels' email notification system on a dark web forum. (Cybernews)

🇺🇸 Spyware maker Paragon Solutions, whose tools were used in a recent hacking campaign targeting around 90 journalists and civil society members, confirmed the company sells its products to the U.S. government. (TechCrunch)