Cybersecurity Headlines New Cyber Command chief, Russia targets Signal, Codex Security
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Mar 11, 2026 Senate confirmation of a new NSA and Cyber Command chief and questions about his signals intelligence background. Reports of Russian phishing campaigns targeting Signal and WhatsApp registrations. OpenAI unveils a Codex vulnerability scanner that found thousands of high-severity flaws. Warnings about persistent Russian and Chinese cyber espionage against tech and research sectors.
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Unconventional Choice For Dual NSA Cyber Command Role
- The Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd as dual head of Cyber Command and NSA despite no prior SIGINT or cyber ops experience.
- The vote was 71-29 and followed concerns from Sen. Ron Wyden about vague answers on warrantless surveillance.
Phishing Around Encryption Not Breaking It
- Russian-linked actors targeted Signal and WhatsApp users without breaking end-to-end encryption by impersonating support teams and prompting PIN or linked-device actions.
- On Signal attackers asked for PINs to register new devices; on WhatsApp they pushed the linked device feature to capture messages.
OpenAI's Codex Security Finds Thousands Of High Severity Bugs
- OpenAI launched Codex security (formerly aardvark) as a research preview to paid and EDU customers for vulnerability scanning.
- In testing Codex security flagged over 10,000 high-severity issues across projects like Chromium, OpenSSL, PHP, and GnuTLS.