Government funding for a program that hunts for threats on America's critical infrastructure networks expired on Sunday, preventing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from analyzing activity that could indicate a cyberattack, the program director told Congress on Tuesday. This includes threats along the lines of China's Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon intrusions — network activity that may look like, or even start as, espionage, but ultimately enables the digital invaders to backdoor critical orgs and deploy cyber weapons to aid in a kinetic war. Worse, on Sunday, America lost a chunk of visibility into foreign spies sitting on critical networks or OT-specific malware because the Department of Homeland Security hasn't renewed CISA's funding to work with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on CyberSentry.
Author: Jessica Lyons
Published at: 2025-07-22 21:06:33
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