CISA director pick Sean Plankey withdraws his nomination
2026-04-23T02:51:42Z•e4f6df36744b8be2acfab294ae917a50a352356e5728a1a231e3f310691af697
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What happened
Feed of CyberScoop stories (Apr 20–22, 2026) covering personnel and policy developments plus high‑impact cyber incidents: withdrawal of Sean Plankey as CISA director pick; House Republicans' proposed national privacy law; a Supreme Court case on geofence warrants; calls for CISOs to adopt real‑time risk posture in the AI era; guilty pleas in major ransomware/extortion cases (DigitalMint negotiator Angelo Martino and Scattered Spider affiliate Tyler Buchanan); congressional discussion of treating hospital ransomware as terrorism or homicide; reporting on Anthropic’s Mythos vulnerability‑discov
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