The refunds relate to a case last year in which two Cyprus-based companies, Restoro and Reimage, were accused of deceiving consumers through misleading computer repair services. The FTC alleged the operation started at least in 2018.

President Trump has named Sean Plankey to become the director of the CISA. Plankey previously held key roles at the Department of Energy and National Security Council during the first Trump administration.

Karen Evans, who first joined CISA in January as a senior adviser, will be responsible for leading the agency’s cybersecurity efforts as the national coordinator for critical infrastructure security and resilience.

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Sean Cairncross, a former official at the Republican National Committee, as the next national cyber director, according to a list of planned nominees obtained by Cybersecurity Dive.

The action plan was made public on January 15, 2025, after being first mentioned in July 2024 in the EU Commission's Political Guidelines 2024-2029 document. It aims to help healthcare entities mitigate the rapidly increasing cyber threats they face.

The Treasury Department said Integrity Technology provided Flax Typhoon actors with infrastructure between the summer of 2022 and fall of 2023 — with the state-backed groups sharing and receiving information from the company.

As of November, the CISA had issued 2,131 pre-ransomware notifications this year, nearly double the amount it issued in 2023. The agency also released almost 1,300 cyber defense alerts and advisories through the JCDC during fiscal year 2024.

While CISA has only finalized the required secure configuration baselines (SCBs) for Microsoft 365, it plans to release additional baselines for other cloud platforms, starting with Google Workspace (anticipated to enter scope in Q2 of FY 2025).

The provision, slotted into the National Defense Authorization Act for the 2025 fiscal year, seeks to secure U.S. government-issued devices used by diplomats, armed forces personnel, and staffers in the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The FCC shared a draft ruling that, if adopted, would immediately require telecommunications firms to secure their networks against unauthorized access to systems that house wiretap requests from law enforcement, according to an agency news release.