Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

United States federal agency responsible for cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection. - Reviewing February 2026 incident as critical infrastructure matter

On February 16, 2026, a single misconfigured routing update at Cloudflare's Ashburn, Virginia data center cascaded across the internet, taking down X for three hours, degrading Amazon Web Services' largest region, and disrupting thousands of websites globally. The error took 40 minutes to identify but four hours to fully resolve because corrupted routing tables had already spread to upstream providers worldwide.

Updated Feb 16

United States federal agency responsible for cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection. - Tracking and mandating remediation of exploited vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its February 2026 Patch Tuesday update, fixing 58 security flaws including six zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting. The most severe allows attackers to bypass Windows SmartScreen protections, tricking users into running malicious software without seeing the usual security warnings. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added all six vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, giving federal agencies until March 3, 2026, to patch their systems.

Updated Feb 11

U.S. agency responsible for protecting critical infrastructure and promoting cybersecurity best practices across public and private sectors. - Driving industry-wide secure-by-design adoption

On January 12, 2026, millions of Teams users woke up to find their security settings had changed overnight. Microsoft activated weaponizable file blocking, malicious URL detection, and phishing protections across every organization still using default configurations—no IT administrator approval required. Days earlier, the company had quietly expanded Zero-Hour Auto Purge malware removal to all Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 customers, creating a one-two punch of automated threat protection. The moves mark the sharpest turn yet in Microsoft's $34 billion bet that 'secure by default' can repair its battered reputation after Russian and Chinese hackers ransacked its networks in 2023.

Updated Jan 14

Federal agency responsible for protecting US critical infrastructure from cyber and physical threats. - Lead agency for critical infrastructure cybersecurity defense

Chinese hackers have burrowed deep into America's power grids, water systems, telecommunications networks, and transportation infrastructure—not to steal secrets, but to flip a kill switch. The Pentagon's December 2024 report confirms what intelligence agencies have warned: Beijing expects to fight and win a war over Taiwan by 2027, and cyber operations like Volt Typhoon have pre-positioned capabilities to cripple American response by shutting down pipelines, derailing trains, and severing communications between the mainland and Hawaii. In a stunning development, Chinese officials indirectly admitted in a secret December Geneva meeting that Volt Typhoon attacks were linked to U.S. support for Taiwan—the first time Beijing has acknowledged involvement.

Updated Dec 26, 2025

America's cyber defense agency coordinating protection of critical infrastructure. - Coordinating defense against Russian infrastructure targeting

Amazon exposed what Russia's most notorious cyber unit was doing while the world wasn't watching. From 2021 through 2025, GRU Unit 74455—the Sandworm team behind NotPetya and Ukraine's grid attacks—quietly evolved its playbook, abandoning flashy zero-day exploits for something harder to defend against: hunting misconfigured network devices protecting Western electric utilities, energy companies, and their security providers. They compromised edge devices, harvested credentials, and penetrated organizational networks across North America and Europe.

Updated Dec 25, 2025