mastodon 4.7.3Washington-based cybersecurity and intelligence reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Priors with Reuters and National Journal. It can happen here.
Hi, I'm Dustin Volz, a Washington-based cybersecurity and intelligence reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
My work focuses on the national security and geopolitical dimensions of nation-state hacking conflict, digital espionage, online influence operations, election interference, and government surveillance.
Scoop: Hackers linked to Beijing accessed the email account of the U.S. ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns in a breach believed to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of emails, sources said.
Three FDIC officials involved in tapping Microsoft as the main cloud provider owned Microsoft stock.
An Ex-Im official married to a cruise lobbyist set up a WH mtg for cruise CEOs.
An FCC official working on internet policy owned $100K+ in Google stock.
The latest installment of WSJ's Capital Assets series, showing that officials not only own stock in companies overseen by their agencies—they sometimes work directly on matters affecting those companies.