Suzanne Smalley

Suzanne joined CyberScoop from Inside Higher Ed, where she covered educational technology and from Yahoo News, where she worked as an investigative reporter. Prior to Yahoo News, Suzanne worked as a consultant to the economist Raj Chetty as he launched his Harvard-based research institute Opportunity Insights. Earlier in her career Suzanne covered the Boston Police Department for the Boston Globe and covered two presidential campaigns for Newsweek. She holds a masters in journalism from Northwestern and a BA from Georgetown. A Miami native, Suzanne lives in upper Northwest Washington with her family.

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The seals of the U.S. Cyber Command, the National Security Agency and the Central Security Service greet employees and visitors at the campus the three organizations share March 13, 2015 in Fort Meade, Maryland. The National Security Agency today released an advisory to the defense sector detailing APTs. (PHOTO: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

U.S. Cyber Command gives Congress $236M unfunded priorities wish list

Government

infected file, information stealer, malware — (Getty Images)

Information-stealing malware is spreading widely on Telegram, Cisco Talos says

Threats

DOJ FBI Sandworm Cyclops Blink botnet announcement — FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Justice Department on April 6, 2022, announcing the Sandworm operation. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

DOJ’s Sandworm operation raises questions about how far feds can go to disarm botnets

Government

Barack Obama — Former President Barack Obama attends an event to mark the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House on April 5, 2022. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Obama says he underestimated the threats posed by disinformation

Government

Gen. Paul Nakasone — Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 5, 2022. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Legislators rail against potential rollback of flexible DOD cyber powers

Government

An aerial view of the US Cyber Command joint operations center on the NSA campus is seen on May 25, 2020, in Fort Meade, Maryland. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Debate erupts at news the White House may scale back DOD cyber-ops authorities

Government

Cyber Command NSPM-13 — National Security Agency (NSA) Director and U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Paul Nakasone testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 10, 2022 (Photo by: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Biden administration is studying whether to scale back Trump-era cyber authorities at DOD

Government

The Treasury Department sanctioned Blender, a virtual currency mixer which it says North Korean cybercriminals used to launder $20.5 million stolen as part of a $620 million heist which exploited users of the Pokemon-inspired blockchain game Axie Infinity. (image via Axie Infinity)

Hackers steal more than $600M from Ronin blockchain used to play Axie Infinity

Technology

Prosecutors say Berezan bought a Ducati with money he made off of ransomware targets. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP via Getty Images)

Estonian man sentenced to prison for role in cyber intrusions, ransomware attacks

Technology