Dustin Volz
@dnvolz
@WSJ reporter covering cyber and intelligence. Priors w/ @Reuters and @nationaljournal.
I'm back at @WSJ today after taking some time away for parental leave. Grateful for every moment I've had at home with my family. Please reach out if you'd like to catch up or have any tips to share. I understand the news has been slow lately, so let's change that.
Intriguing op-ed from Rep. Jim Jordan marking the goal a year from now to reform Section 702 of FISA to require warrants for U.S. person searches. Jordan in years past had wanted to burn 702 to the ground. Now he's setting his sights an achievable goal. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
North Korean IT workers are bound by a few defining characteristics: total devotion to Dear Leader Kim Jong Un, a penchant for stealing cryptocurrency and an obsession with Minions, the cuddly yellow agents of evil from “Despicable Me.” wsj.com/lifestyle/nort…
As over 1,000 employees were fired from the State Department today, some accidentally received notices they were being laid off… only to later be emailed that those notices were sent by accident and their jobs are in fact safe
Our investigation into the mass killings in the Assad regime's Saydnaya prison in Syria, which included interviews with 21 former prisoners, is out: wsj.com/world/middle-e…
How a North Korean scammer stole hundreds of thousands from a crypto startup wsj.com/business/he-th…
EXCLU: Before launching its attack on Iran last week, Israel provided the U.S. with intel it deemed alarming: Tehran was conducting renewed research useful for a nuclear weapon, including on an explosive triggering system. But U.S. officials weren’t convinced the info pointed…
As much as I hate doing this, I wanted to share a personal story, linked below. One day I was the proud new father to my infant daughter. The next, I was nearly unconscious in the ICU, and I didn't know when or if I would see her again. linkedin.com/posts/dustinvo…
Scoop: A cyberattack on the Washington Post compromised email accounts of several journalists and was potentially the work of a foreign government, company officials told some affected staffers in recent days. W/@dnvolz and @bobmcmillan wsj.com/tech/cybersecu…
BOMBSHELL: The Pentagon helped spread UFO myths for a generation. When a new DoD investigation dug up the military’s role, the Air Force pushed for a coverup. With the mighty @aviswanatha wsj.com/articles/WP-WS…
WSJ has previously reported the Salt Typhoon attacks began in “mid-2023 or earlier.” wsj.com/tech/cybersecu…
Sources: Chinese hackers breached a US telecom company in the summer of 2023, a year before US officials and cybersecurity firms detected the Salt Typhoon hacks (@jzbleiberg / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250604/p38#a25…
This is some incredible reporting on Zuckerberg’s mad dash to appease Trump and avoid a stiff FTC antitrust penalty—including a failed offer to pay $450 million instead of $30 billion. Great work by @DanaMattioli @rebeccaballhaus and @jdawsey1 wsj.com/us-news/law/ma…
"Krebs said he understood why some have kept a low profile and tried not to further anger the president. But he said he disagreed with that approach. "I don’t think this lay-low-and-hope-this-blows-over approach is the right one for the moment we’re in."
News: Chris Krebs, a target of Trump's wrath last week, is resigning from SentinelOne to focus fully on fighting back against against the White House's campaign to punish dissent. w/ @jdawsey1 wsj.com/politics/polic…
.@C_C_Krebs is resigning from @SentinelOne so he can fight the Trump administration's revenge campaign against him. "It’s a novel and expansive strategy they are taking on and it should concern everyone," Krebs told @WSJ. wsj.com/politics/polic…
The Trump administration pays Bukele for each deportee he keeps in prison in El Salvador. Rubio arranged the terms. It’s a “U.S. penal colony,” as @VeraMBergen said on @MSNBC.
NEW: El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele plans to double the size of the mass prison where his government is holding U.S. deportees. He told Secretary Kristi Noem he "has 80-plus acres there that he’s going to continue to build on." "This is a long-term solution,” Noem said.
“I don’t think this lay-low-and-hope-this-blows-over approach is the right one for the moment we’re in,” @C_C_Krebs said.
News: Chris Krebs, a target of Trump's wrath last week, is resigning from SentinelOne to focus fully on fighting back against against the White House's campaign to punish dissent. w/ @jdawsey1 wsj.com/politics/polic…
After being targeted by Trump by name last week, former Trump adviser Chris Krebs vows to fight what he says is an unprecedented action against dissent. "I was sanctioned by the Russians and I’ve been effectively sanctioned by my own government as well." wsj.com/politics/polic…
News: Chris Krebs, a target of Trump's wrath last week, is resigning from SentinelOne to focus fully on fighting back against against the White House's campaign to punish dissent. w/ @jdawsey1 wsj.com/politics/polic…
Chinese police issued wanted notices for three people they said engaged in cyberattacks against China on behalf of the U.S. National Security Agency, a rare step by Beijing as hostilities between the superpowers escalate. wsj.com/world/china/ch…
