Sam Sabin
@samsabin923
@axios cybersecurity reporter, taking it day by day ✨ | 📩: sam.sabin@axios dot com, signal: SamSabin.01 (no pitches!)
ok, putting them all in one spot. someone lmk when we sort out when to post on which for what, i’m overwhelmed already 🫠
Microsoft says three China-based hacking groups, including two gov't teams, have been targeting the SharePoint vuln since at least July 7 🫠 axios.com/2025/07/22/mic…
Update: Microsoft has released security updates that fully protect customers using all supported versions of SharePoint affected by CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771.
Microsoft has released security updates that fully protect customers using all supported versions of SharePoint affected by CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771. These vulnerabilities apply to on-premises SharePoint Servers only. Customers should apply these updates immediately to…
Scoop: Top Secret Service official targeted in "swatting" attack axios.com/2025/07/18/sec…
CISA spent years building out its role as the country's go-to partner on cybersecurity issues. piece by piece, that work is being dismantled as workforce reductions and budget cuts hit the agency. more from today's @axios future of cyber newsletter: axios.com/2025/07/15/cis…
a majority of local election officials say they need more funding and support from states to offset the Trump admin's cuts to federal election security programs, according to a new Brennan Center poll. new on @axios axios.com/2025/07/10/ele…
Mandiant is now aware of multiple incidents in the airline sector that resemble Scattered Spider. The industry should button up its call centers where this actor has had a lot of success with social engineering. axios.com/2025/06/27/avi…
Scattered Spider is now targeting the aviation and transportation sectors, Google + Palo Alto Networks warned today. A source says the group was likely behind last week's attack on WestJet. It's also possible they targeted Hawaiian Airlines this week. axios.com/2025/06/27/avi…
16 billion passwords for Google, Apple, Facebook leaked in massive data breach, report says trib.al/303e6Tj
Actors that bear the hallmarks of Scattered Spider are now targeting the insurance industry. They have a habit of working their way through a sector. Insurance companies should be on the lookout for social engineering schemes targeting their call centers.
Trump might be the most accessible president ever — for spies or scammers trib.al/LdkZ2dJ
Possible iPhone spyware campaign inside U.S. discovered by researchers trib.al/EJWndRS
New: @CISAgov has already lost ~1,000 employees to Trump's workforce purge, with the marquee Cybersecurity Division hit hard and many departures from the agency's field force of local cyber advisers. cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-depa… Confirming @samsabin923's scoop.
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EXCLUSIVE: Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during Trump's second term — cutting the agency's total workforce by nearly a third. axios.com/2025/06/03/cis…
new in today's @axios Future of Cybersecurity: The Trump admin is proposing cutting ~1K jobs at CISA in FY26. But those cuts aren't new, they all already happened. Roughly 600 people alone voluntarily left as part of DRP 2, one source confirmed. axios.com/2025/06/03/cis…
Security teams at top companies couldn't see threats on their networks for hours today trib.al/29gd5lL
News: Rubio’s reorganizing the National Security Council “Deep State,” reducing its size by about half and streamlining it so it executes Trump’s will quickly w/@axiosalex axios.com/2025/05/23/whi…