Digital forensics firm with US federal contracts covered up ties to Russia, DOJ alleges

The feed reports alleged concealment of Russian ties by executives at a digital forensics company supplying U.S. federal agencies; proposed voluntary telecom cybersecurity rules following Salt Typhoon compromises; a guilty plea by an alleged Rydox cybercrime marketplace operator; connectivity outages in Kyiv after Russian attacks damaged data centers; and an Astrana breach involving impersonation of company personnel. These items span supply-chain and insider-risk concerns, state-sponsored telecom intrusion, cybercrime marketplaces, wartime infrastructure disruption, and social-engineering-led