Catch up quick

@ D.C.

🇨🇳 The Republican National Committee quietly responded to a China-backed hack of its internal communications in the weeks leading up to this past summer's convention and leaders opted not to report the intrusion to the FBI. (Wall Street Journal)

🇷🇺 Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old coder who is now working at DOGE, is the grandson of a former KGB spy who worked undercover at the Soviet Embassy in the 1980s. (Jacob Silverman)

😵‍💫 The Social Security Administration was actively investigating whether a career employee had improperly shared information with Elon Musk's tech team when President Trump tapped that employee to be an acting commissioner. (Washington Post)

@ Industry

🧳 CrowdStrike chief security officer Shawn Henry is leaving his role by the end of the month, according to a regulatory filing. (Cybersecurity Dive)

🤖 Anthropic has integrated advanced reasoning capabilities into its latest model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet. (Axios)

👀 Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company, named two new chief executives — one of whom is a known Trump fundraiser. (The Record)

@ Hackers and hacks

⚠️ A botnet made up of more than 130,000 compromised devices is conducting an active password-spraying attack against Microsoft 365 accounts worldwide. (BleepingComputer)

🗃️ Hackers recently breached DISA Global Solutions, an employee screening service, and accessed the data of more than 3 million people. (TechCrunch)

👻 The FBI and CISA published an advisory warning about a new ransomware gang, Ghost, that has already targeted organizations in more than 70 countries. (Business Insider)