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The Chinese Communist Party "maintained supreme access" to data belonging to TikTok parent company ByteDance, including data stored in the U.S., a former top executive claimed in a lawsuit Friday.

Why it matters: The allegations come as federal officials weigh the fate of the social media giant in the U.S. amid growing concerns over national security and data privacy.

The Internal Revenue Service is providing new cyber aid to the Ukrainian government as both parties try to up their efforts to identify Russian oligarchs looking to evade international sanctions.

Driving the news: The IRS Criminal Investigation team (IRS-CI) and Chainalysis announced Thursday the two are donating blockchain analysis tools and new cyber trainings to several Ukrainian government agencies.

Malicious hackers are embedding malware into illegal downloads of the "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," researchers at ReasonLabs have found.

Driving the news: ReasonLabs published a report today, first shared with Axios, detailing how a Trojan virus is infecting people looking for a free way to watch the smash hit movie.

Some of the most important research into protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure from cyberattacks is happening in a group of labs in Northern Virginia.

Driving the news: I spent Thursday afternoon touring three of the research and development labs at the MITRE Corp., a not-for-profit organization that develops tech and security tools for both the private and public sectors.

The organization that builds tools for managing decentralized autonomous organizations has fallen into discord on Discord over the management of its own decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). TL;dr: "Autonomous" is winning out over "decentralized" right now.

Why it matters: Blockchain projects propose bold new experiments in coordinating how humans interact with each other, but those experiments also illuminate the fact that humans are pretty complicated.

Hollywood has spawned several movies about tech giant Apple, but Canada finally has its own tech movie — chronicling BlackBerry phone-maker Research in Motion.

Driving the news: Directed by Matt Johnson and starring Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton and Johnson himself, "BlackBerry" draws from the 2015 book "Losing the Signal" about the company, with a comedic spin and memorable performances. It hits theaters Friday.