Private companies would also have to report to the government if they plan to pay off cybercriminals.
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As the state responded to a pro-Iranian attack, officials tell CyberScoop that it avoided reaching out to the federal agency, partly because it has been “politicized and weakened” under the president.
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Attackers have already used the exploit dubbed “ToolShell” to intrude hundreds of organizations globally, including private companies and government agencies.
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The U.S. is stepping into a new cyber era, and it comes not a moment too soon. With the Trump administration’s sweeping $1 billion cyber initiative in the “Big Beautiful Bill” and growing congressional momentum under the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to strengthen cyber deterrence, we’re seeing a shift in posture that many […]
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The hackers were allegedly involved in operations against Ukraine and a Russian on U.K. soil, the latter with malware tied to U.S. 2016 election interference.
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The food distributor and wholesaler completely shut down its systems upon discovering the attack last month, yet core systems were restored and normal operating capacity returned within three weeks.
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Karen Vardanyan and his co-conspirators allegedly deployed ransomware on hundreds of machines in 2019 and 2020, extorting more than $15 million from victims at the time.
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The House Homeland Committee will revisit the malware to use the knowledge from the spy effort to explore the domestic threats facing the U.S. in 2025.
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Google Threat Intelligence Group said a financially motivated threat group is abusing the outdated remote access VPN devices, underscoring a continued pattern of threats confronting SonicWall customers.
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The lawmakers say the potential is high for such a system to return false positives, blocking citizens from voting.
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Over a dozen law enforcement agencies took action earlier this week, resulting in multiple arrests.
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Cameron Wagenius faces a maximum of 27 years in prison. A researcher that helped with the investigation called this ‘one of the most significant wins in the fight against cybercrime.'
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In congressional testimony, President Trump’s former national security adviser said his use of Signal to coordinate military operations was “driven by” cybersecurity guidance from CISA.
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ESET researchers observed tens of thousands of machines infected with AsyncRAT and its variants over the past year. The open-source malware is a popular tool among cybercriminals.
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The bipartisan legislation would codify the agency’s position as the one in charge of coordinating responses to incidents like the breach on U.S. telecoms.
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The number of Citrix customers impacted by CVE-2025-5777 remains unknown, but researchers have already observed more than 11.5 million attack attempts, targeting thousands of sites.
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An AI red-teaming company found that xAI’s Grok 4 is “not suitable for enterprises” without substantial security prompting.
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Organizations must turn Cyber Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) into executable pipelines, a Microsoft security product manager argues.
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XBOW’s AI bug-hunter landed a big funding round while dominating HackerOne’s leaderboards. But even its founder says it hasn’t fully replaced the need for humans to be involved in the bug-hunting process.
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“PerfektBlue” impacts tech used in Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, and Skoda automobiles.
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