Hawley probes OpenAI over Hugging Face breach
OpenAI is facing mounting pressure from Capitol Hill due to the attack its agents carried out on Hugging Face, while lawmakers voice widening concerns about…
Category: Cyberscoop
Conti ransomware crew member sentenced to four years in prison
A 44-year-old Ukrainian national was sentenced to four years in prison for his long-running participation in Conti, a ransomware group that attacked more than 1,000…
CIA’s Michael Ellis says cyber intelligence is changing how the agency operates
CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis said Tuesday that the agency’s role in Operation Absolute Resolve is an example of how it has moved to put…
Governments ‘buying time’ in race between innovation, security, national cyber director says
The United States and allied governments are “buying time for our systems to become more secure” as artificial intelligence advances and spreads, National Cyber Director…
FBI cyber chief worries private sector not sharing enough cyber threat information
The private sector still isn’t sharing enough cyber information with the FBI in part because organizations are operating on false assumptions about what the bureau…
FTC rescinds policy requiring health apps to notify customers after a breach
The Federal Trade Commission has rescinded a Biden administration-era policy statement that covered health and fitness apps under federal data breach notification regulations. In a…
Chinese espionage groups swarm to exploit triple-link chain of zero-days
Proofpoint researchers have spotted at least four state-aligned threat groups chain a trio of zero-day vulnerabilities to conduct espionage on various targets of interest to…
Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire
A bipartisan trio of lawmakers is asking the Treasury Department to sanction three India-based mercenary hack-for-hire groups that have reportedly stolen data from thousands of…
FBI officials say AI is bolstering adversaries, emphasizing need to focus on cyber basics, patching
Artificial intelligence is souping up the speed and capabilities of malicious hackers, a top FBI official said Tuesday. And the speed of vulnerability discoveries is…
Russian national extradited to US for alleged involvement in bank-account takeover scheme
Authorities extradited a 36-year-old Russian national from the Republic of Georgia under accusations of widespread bank-account takeover attacks, including a scheme to defraud two banks…
Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models
The U.S. government is accusing Chinese AI companies of engaging in a deliberate and “systematic” effort to illegally distill U.S. frontier AI models and their…
Microsoft discloses two actively exploited zero-days among 974 vulnerabilities
Microsoft addressed 974 defects across its product suite, including two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, in its monthly Patch Tuesday security program. The massive batch of…