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A US court sentences a former ransomware negotiator to 70 months in prison for working with BlackCat to extort a combined $75.3M from his employer's clients (cyberscoop.com)
12 hours ago

How hacker group TeamPCP exploited the open source trust model and distribution method to compromise and inject malware into over 1,000 software packages (cyberscoop.com)
21 days ago Hacker

Anthropic says internal and external red team tests of Fable 5 found no universal jailbreaks; it will keep user traffic for 30 days, aligning with Trump's AI EO (cyberscoop.com)
2026-6-10 Trump AI

Google launches Intrusion Logging, an Android feature developed in partnership with Amnesty International and others, on Android 16 Pixel devices for now (cyberscoop.com)
2026-5-13 Android Google

The US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand publish guidance on orgs' use of agentic AI systems, saying many give AI more access than can be safely monitored (cyberscoop.com)
2026-5-2 Australia AI New Zealand Canada

Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws (cyberscoop.com)
2026-4-28

The NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse (cyberscoop.com)
2026-4-16 Database

Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (cyberscoop.com)
2026-4-8

The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks (cyberscoop.com)
2026-3-21 Russia FBI Intelligence

The Trump administration debuts its cyber strategy, outlining priorities including promoting offense operations, securing AI tech, and streamlining regulations (cyberscoop.com)
2026-3-7 Trump AI

Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members (cyberscoop.com)
2026-3-5

A US judge sentences ex-L3Harris exec Peter Williams to over 7 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in 2025 to theft of trade secrets and selling exploits (cyberscoop.com)
2026-2-25

CrowdStrike says the average breakout time for attackers moving from intrusion to other network systems fell to 29 minutes in 2025, a 65% YoY increase in speed (cyberscoop.com)
2026-2-25

Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (cyberscoop.com)
2025-11-30 AI

The US sanctions eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes for the North Korean government (cyberscoop.com)
2025-11-5 Korea

US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware (cyberscoop.com)
2025-11-4

A former L3 Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars (cyberscoop.com)
2025-10-30 Russia

Threat intel company Dataminr plans to acquire cybersecurity threat intel provider ThreatConnect for $290M; Dataminr raised $85M in convertible funding in March (cyberscoop.com)
2025-10-22 Intel

Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings (cyberscoop.com)
2025-10-15

CrowdStrike's 2025 Threat Hunting Report: 320+ investigations into North Korean operatives in remote IT jobs in the US, Europe, and elsewhere in the past year (cyberscoop.com)
2025-8-7 Europe Korea

A cyberattack claimed by the pro-Israel hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly disrupted services at Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah (cyberscoop.com)
2025-6-18 Israel Iran

Cynthia Kaiser, the FBI's ex-deputy assistant director leading cyber policy, intel, and engagement, is leaving to join cybersecurity company Halcyon as SVP (cyberscoop.com)
2025-6-3 Intel FBI

Zscaler agrees to acquire Red Canary, a provider of managed detection and response services, for an undisclosed sum; the deal is expected to close in August (cyberscoop.com)
2025-5-28

President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut “refocuses CISA on its core mission” (cyberscoop.com)
2025-5-5 Trump Budget

A look at the 25-year-old CVE program, which assigns unique IDs to flaws; 413 orgs now report CVEs, with 40K+ reported in 2024, pushing the total past 270K (cyberscoop.com)
2025-3-25

Researchers say a Next.js flaw that existed for several years could've allowed hackers to bypass middleware-based authentication; Vercel patched it on March 18 (cyberscoop.com)
2025-3-25

Flashpoint: 3.2B credentials were stolen from organizations in 2024, up 33% YoY, of which 2.1B were compromised using info-stealing malware infecting 23M hosts (cyberscoop.com)
2025-3-19

Google Threat Intelligence: the US' adversaries, most notably Russia, are increasingly turning to cybercriminals and free malware to advance their goals (cyberscoop.com)
2025-2-13 Russia Google Intelligence

Experts say Donald Trump and others pushing for stronger US cyber offense must clarify if escalation is a proper response to recent Chinese cyber breaches (cyberscoop.com)
2025-1-15 Trump China

The US says it has identified a ninth telecom company impacted by the Salt Typhoon hacks, and the number of individuals directly impacted is “less than 100” (cyberscoop.com)
2024-12-28

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