Summary

  • This week saw renewed protests against US President Donald Trump, with Democrat-led states such as California coming under scrutiny for their handling of the protests as well as their treatment of undocumented immigrants.
  • According to AP, Trump’s administration has transferred Medicaid data for millions of enrollees to deportation officials, a move criticised as illegal by California Governor Gavin Newsom.
  • There have also been revelations regarding data sharing with immigration authorities; Wired highlighted the practice of selling US flight data to CBP by airlines, while a partnership between Wired and 404 Media revealed that a data broker owned by major airlines sold domestic US flight data to CBP and instructed the agency to not reveal that it did so.
  • In other news, Ukraine’s military intelligence agency HUR claimed to have hacked the network of Russian aerospace company Tupolev, stealing 4.4GB of data related to the maintenance of Russia’s bomber fleet.
  • Further, Interpol announced Operation Secure, which targeted domains and digital infrastructure linked to 69 infostealer malware variants, resulting in the seizure of 41 servers and the arrest of 32 individuals.

By Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, Lily Hay Newman, Andrew Couts

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