U.S. Cyber Trust Mark Launches to Label Secure Consumer IoT Devices

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Taylor Hawes
September 19, 2025

⚡ Weekend Threat Brief

Trend Micro Partners with Invision on $10M Cyber Insurance Offering

Invision Cyber and Trend Micro have launched a U.S. cyber insurance product aimed at Trend Micro customers. The product is offered by Invision, an MGA created by Acies and backed by three Lloyd’s syndicates. Policies can include cover for business interruption, cyber extortion, data restoration, incident response and some third-party liabilities, with capacity reported up to $10 million. The offering will use telemetry-driven underwriting and will be distributed through broker partners.

🎯 Tactical Playbook

Russian CopyCop Network Adds 200 Fake News Sites in 2025 Surge

A Russian covert influence operation known as CopyCop (aka Storm-1516) has rapidly expanded in 2025, adding more than 200 new fake media sites since March. The network now runs well over 300 domains and uses self-hosted large language models to mass-produce AI-written content. Operators register coordinated batches of domains, keep many sites dormant until needed, and produce region-targeted and multi-language content to amplify specific narratives.

Security teams warn that the operation mixes automated generation with human-directed campaigns, making detection and takedown harder. Defensive action worth considering this weekend: verify news sources before sharing, monitor domain registrations related to your beat, and feed new suspected domains into your threat intelligence tools for blocking and takedown requests. 

🛡️ Research Watch

U.S. Cyber Trust Mark Launches to Label Secure Consumer IoT Devices

The U.S. federal government has moved forward with a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for consumer IoT devices, often called the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark. The label is modeled after Energy Star: it aims to give shoppers clear signals about basic device security practices (for example, update support and secure data handling). The FCC and NIST have driven the effort, and the program is intended to encourage manufacturers to design devices with stronger baseline security. The first labeled products began appearing in 2025, and the government plans to prefer Cyber Trust Mark devices in official purchasing in coming years. If you cover consumer tech or product security, watch how vendors adopt the mark and how lab testing and certification rules evolve.

🧩 Tool Tip of the Week

Domotz: Cloud-Based Ping and Network Monitoring Made Simple

Need to confirm whether a device is really down or just unreachable from your end? Use Domotz to run remote ping checks. It lets you test reachability from multiple locations, so you can quickly tell if the problem is local or global. Pair this with Domotz’s device discovery and alerts, and you’ll know the moment latency spikes or connectivity drops, without waiting for users to report it. 

🗣️ Community Signal

Cybersecurity is absolutely critical to national security. So when you think about advanced cyber actors, whether it's Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, or non-state actors, it's critically important for our nation to have threat intelligence that helps us navigate all the various aspects of the cybersecurity mission. So when you think about national security systems, you think about all the systems that support the Department of Defense, all the systems that support the intelligence community, and also select portions of our federal civilian agencies and departments, also rely on national security systems capabilities. So whether it's threat intelligence, whether it's partnerships, or whether it's a focus towards key encryption capabilities to protect our most important national security systems, that's what cybersecurity means to the National Security Agency..” Dave Luber

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