Quick Hits

*** The National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI along with the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre released an alert describing campaigns by Russian intelligence to crack cloud and enterprise computing systems using brute force tactics to obtain credentials.

*** The Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency put out a request for information on Wednesday seeking potential vendors to manage the dot-gov domain registry system.

*** The House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Defense advanced its markup of the Defense Department's fiscal year 2022 spending via voice vote on June 30. The bill confers budget authority for the Cyber Mission Forces to the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, under the authority, direction and control of DOD's principal cyber advisor. If this measure is passed into law, the head of CYBERCOM would "be responsible for directly controlling and managing the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution of the resources to train, equip, operate, and sustain the Cyber Mission Forces."