Catch up quick

@ D.C.

🤖 DOGE is expanding its use of Grok AI, the generative AI chatbot that Elon Musk has deployed onto X, across the U.S. federal government to analyze data. (Reuters)

👀 The White House canceled a meeting with Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group last week after it learned that the vendor was trying to get off of a trade blacklist. (Washington Post)

🚫 The FBI has closed an internal watchdog office that was designed to help reduce the risk of misuses of various surveillance programs. (New York Times)

@ Industry

💰 U.K. department store chain Marks & Spencer said it will lose $400 million in operating profits due to last month's cyberattack. (Cybersecurity Dive)

@ Hackers and hacks

🏥 Kettering Health, which operates more than a dozen medical centers in Ohio, said a cyberattack last week caused a tech outage that disrupted its call center and forced some elective procedures to be canceled. (CNN)

⚠️ Silk Typhoon, the China-backed hacking group that hacked the U.S. Treasury Department in December, accessed Commvault's enterprise cloud systems in an attempt to steal customers' secrets. (Nextgov)