CISA stories

Sep 8, 2026

US agencies accuse Chinese AI firms of systematically copying American models

The FBI, NSA, and CISA issued a joint alert accusing major Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba of conducting industrial-scale campaigns to extract proprietary knowledge from American AI models through a technique called distillation.

Sep 8, 20264 sources

May 20, 2026

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency CISA Exposed Sensitive AWS GovCloud Credentials in Public GitHub Repository

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) left highly privileged AWS GovCloud credentials, passwords, and access keys exposed in plain text on a public GitHub repository maintained by a contractor for months. Security experts described it as one of the worst credential leaks they have witnessed.

May 20, 20268 sources

Top claims

▪The Chinese government has previously responded to U.S. intellectual property allegations by accusing U.S. companies of distilling Chinese models and issuing veiled threats of retaliation against potential U.S. bans.
▪The joint advisory named DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI as the six Chinese firms conducting the systematic distillation campaigns.
▪The joint advisory recommended that U.S. model providers monitor for anomalous prompts, usage spikes, and immediate maximum usage from new accounts to detect distillation campaigns.

Topics

China tech & industrial strategy AI Regulation AI copyright & training data China-United States relations Model distillation AI security Knowledge Distillation AI and copyright Credential management AI privacy & surveillance Cloud security Government cybersecurity

Related entities

United States China Amazon Web Services GovCloud AWS GovCloud Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency GitHub