The guidance warns that agents capable of taking real-world actions on networks are already inside critical infrastructure, and most organizations are granting them far more access than they can safely monitor or control.
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Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin attacked five companies in 2023 and extorted nearly $1.3 million from one of their victims.
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The commission wants telecoms to do more to verify their callers and prevent illegal calls and scams from reaching Americans.
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It’s the second extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 10 days, and a regular ritual for the Hill.
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The agency added the flaw to the KEV list days after hosting providers confirmed active, ongoing attacks.
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CrowdStrike says The Com-affiliated threat groups are using voice phishing and fake SSO pages to break into SaaS environments and steal data fast for extortion.
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Anthropic recently announced that it would not release Mythos, its most powerful AI model, to the public. The model discovered thousands of previously unknown software vulnerabilities — flaws that had sat undetected in major operating systems and web browsers for as long as nearly three decades. Anthropic said the model was too dangerous to deploy […]
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A hearing of the House Homeland Security panel’s cyber subcommittee weighed whether to designate data centers as a standalone critical infrastructure sector.
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While tech leaders think about how to strategically deploy AI tools to support human intelligence needs, rank and filers express concerns about their livelihoods.
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Greg Barbaccia told CyberScoop that Anthropic's Mythos shows real promise for federal cyber defense, but warns that laboratory results and live network conditions are two very different things.
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She replaces Rep. Eric Swalwell following his resignation, giving her the position of ranking member of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection.
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The increase is being driven by powerful privacy laws in states like California, new interstate partnerships and a renewed focus on the privacy impacts of AI and automation.
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Xu Zewei was allegedly directed by China’s intelligence services to conduct a sweeping espionage campaign to steal data on COVID-19 research and other U.S. policy interests.
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A ruling could come this summer in Chatrie v. United States, which could have bigger ramifications about the scope of government surveillance.
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Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jim Banks wrote to Navigate360 after a hacker claimed to compromise the school safety tool.
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Some attackers, which researchers link to The Com, have swatted company executives to increase leverage and pressure victims to pay their ransom demands.
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An April 30 deadline is looming to extend expiring Section 702 powers, and the newest legislation to re-up it is drawing fire from the left and right.
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The company said it found more evidence of compromise across its customer base. Exposure, which has yet to be defined, poses significant downstream risk.
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Investigators found the malware, dubbed Firestarter, on a federal agency's network in a campaign dating back to at least September 2025.
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ZionSiphon was designed to find and sabotage Israelis’ water supply. An OT expert said it appears to be ineffective and the work of amateurs using AI.
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