Joe Warminsky

Joe Warminsky is the news editor for CyberScoop and FedScoop.

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North Korea — Students of the Pyongyang Jang Chol Gu University of Commerce watch footage on March 25, 2022, of the previous day’s launch of the Hwasong-17 missile — North Korea’s first ICBM test since 2017. (Photo by KIM WON JIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Treasury updates Lazarus Group sanctions with digital currency address linked to Ronin Bridge hack

Geopolitics

One of Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov’s prestigious villas on the Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, also affected by the EU’s economic sanctions aimed at countering the conflict in Ukraine on March 20, 2022 in Porto Cervo, Italy. Italian authorities have seized several villas and yachts owned by wealthy Russians targeted by EU sanctions in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Contributor#8526142/Getty Images)

A practical reason why crypto might not work for large-scale sanctions evasion

Financial

Aethon TUG hospital robot — A TUG robot from Aethon delivers supplies at UCSF medical center in San Francisco on April 15, 2021. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Hospital hallway robots get patches for potentially serious bugs

Threats

Russian Foreign Ministry — A man enters the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow on April 19, 2021. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images)

Microsoft seizes internet domains linked to GRU cyberattacks against Ukraine

Geopolitics

CrowdStrike, RSA 2019 — (Scoop News Group photo)

CrowdStrike, Mandiant announce ‘strategic partnership’

Technology

Merrick Garland — Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks about a significant firearms trafficking enforcement action during a news conference at the Justice Department on April 1, 2022. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

US says it disrupted Russian botnet ‘before it could be weaponized’

Geopolitics

German police — A police vehicle in Munich in February during the city’s annual Security Conference. (Photo by Alexandra Beier/Getty Images)

Hydra market’s servers, $25M in bitcoin seized by German police in dark web sting

Financial

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center disembarks his plane at Paris-Le Bourget Aiport, north of Paris as he arrives for his visit to Paris, on March 8, 2022. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

State Department’s cyber bureau begins operations

Policy

Spring, Spring4Shell — (Spring)

‘Spring4Shell’ bug in framework for Java programming draws widespread warnings

Threats