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Derek B. Johnson

CyberScoop

Derek B. Johnson is a reporter at CyberScoop, where his beat includes cybersecurity, elections and the federal government. Prior to that, he has provided award-winning coverage of cybersecurity news across the public and private sectors for various publications since 2017. Derek has a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from Hofstra University in New York and a master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University in Virginia.

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Fancy Bear spotted using real Kazak government documents in spearpishing campaign

Threats

Microsoft Romania headquarters in City Gate Towers situated in Free Press Square, in Bucharest, Romania. (Getty Images)

Microsoft moves to disrupt hacking-as-a-service scheme that’s bypassing AI safety measures

Election Security

A view of the commission’s hearing room before a hearing at the Federal Communications Commission in 2017. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

FCC moves to tighten industry reporting rules for robocalls

Government

In a post published Wednesday, watchTowr Labs CEO Benjamin Harris and researcher Aliz Hammond said they have successfully identified entry points into thousands of live backdoors being used by hackers through the interconnected infrastructure they leave behind. (Image Source: Getty Images)

Malicious hackers have their own shadow IT problem

Cybersecurity

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Industrial networking manufacturer Moxa reports ‘critical’ router bugs

Cybersecurity

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel attends the Paley International Council Summit at Paley Museum on Nov. 8, 2022 in New York City. Rosenworcel spoke with CyberScoop about her tenure as FCC Chair, which will end Jan. 20, 2025. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

Exit interview: FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel discusses her legacy on cybersecurity, AI and regulation

Policy

U.S. intelligence officials have assessed that the Russian government’s efforts were largely in support of Trump while Iranian influence efforts were primarily targeted towards helping the electoral chances of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. (Image Source: Getty Images)

US sanctions Russian, Iranian groups for election interference

Technology

Treasury officials were notified by BeyondTrust on Dec. 8 that “a threat actor had gained access to a key used by the vendor to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices end users.” (Image Via Getty)

Treasury workstations hacked by China-linked threat actors

Government

On Dec. 27, VulnCheck detailed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12856, wherein an attacker can leverage default credentials in Four-Faith F3x24 and F3x36 routers to remotely inject commands into the operating system. (Getty Images)

Thousands of industrial routers vulnerable to command injection flaw

Research