Category: cyberscoop

Hacking Team successor linked to malware campaign, new 'Dante' commercial spyware
27
Oct
2025

Hacking Team successor linked to malware campaign, new ‘Dante’ commercial spyware

Kaspersky researchers said Monday that they’ve unearthed a malware campaign they’re linking to the successor company of the infamous Italy-based…

New National Cyber Director Cairncross faces challenges on policy, bureaucracy, threats
24
Oct
2025

National cyber director says U.S. needs to counter Chinese surveillance, push American tech

The United States needs to counter China’s “attempt to export a surveillance state across planet Earth,” and instead push a…

Nick Carroll
24
Oct
2025

Shifting from reactive to proactive: Cyber resilience amid nation-state espionage

In recent years, the cybersecurity industry has made significant strides in securing endpoints with advanced Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)…

Pyongyang, North Korea
24
Oct
2025

North Korea’s Lazarus group attacked three companies involved in drone development

North Korea’s Lazarus threat group attacked three Europe-based companies with active operations in the defense sector last spring to potentially…

Greg Otto
23
Oct
2025

Ex-L3Harris executive accused of selling trade secrets to Russia

Federal prosecutors have accused a former executive at L3Harris Technologies’ cyber division of stealing trade secrets and selling them to…

New York updates third-party risk guidance, adds AI provisions
23
Oct
2025

New York updates third-party risk guidance, adds AI provisions

The New York Department of Financial Services published updates this week to longstanding industry guidance that urges financial services companies…

F5 vulnerability highlights weak points in DHS’s CDM program
23
Oct
2025

F5 vulnerability highlights weak points in DHS’s CDM program

Last week, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials spoke candidly about the challenges they faced tracking the use of F5…

Matt Kapko
23
Oct
2025

Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity

Researchers have uncovered a long-running phishing campaign that uses text messages to trick victims, and it’s both bigger and more…

23
Oct
2025

Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity

Researchers have uncovered a long-running phishing campaign that uses text messages to trick victims, and it’s both bigger and more…

Greg Otto
22
Oct
2025

Open letter calls for prohibition on superintelligent AI, highlighting growing mainstream concern

An open letter released Wednesday has called for a ban on the development of artificial intelligence systems considered to be…

US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes
22
Oct
2025

US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes

The Trump administration should reverse cyber personnel and budget cuts, strengthen the Office of the National Cyber Director and expand…

Matt Kapko
22
Oct
2025

Researchers uncover remote code execution flaw in abandoned Rust code library

Security specialists at Edera discovered and disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in an early and since-abandoned code for an open-source async…