Category: cyberscoop

Former Meta security chief sues company for privacy violations, professional retaliation
09
Sep
2025

Former Meta security chief sues company for privacy violations, professional retaliation

Meta is being sued by its former head of security, who claims the company ignored repeated warnings that its messaging…

National cyber director: U.S. strategy needs to shift cyber risk from Americans to its adversaries
09
Sep
2025

National cyber director: U.S. strategy needs to shift cyber risk from Americans to its adversaries

The United States needs a “new, coordinated strategy” to counter its cyber adversaries and “shift the burden of risk in…

Mitsubishi Electric to acquire Nozomi Networks in $1 billion deal
09
Sep
2025

Mitsubishi Electric to acquire Nozomi Networks in $1 billion deal

Industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi Electric has agreed to acquire OT and IoT cybersecurity specialist Nozomi Networks in a transaction that values…

Treasury Department targets Southeast Asia scam hubs with sanctions
09
Sep
2025

Treasury Department targets Southeast Asia scam hubs with sanctions

Federal authorities on Monday imposed sanctions on 19 people and organizations allegedly involved in major cyberscam hubs in Burma and…

Salesloft Drift compromised en masse, impacting all third-party integrations
09
Sep
2025

Salesloft Drift security incident started with undetected GitHub access

Salesloft pinned the root cause of the Drift supply-chain attacks to a threat group gaining access to its GitHub account…

CISA pushes final cyber incident reporting rule to May 2026
08
Sep
2025

CISA pushes final cyber incident reporting rule to May 2026

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency is delaying finalization of a rule until May of next year that will require critical…

Derek B. Johnson
08
Sep
2025

Supreme Court blocks FTC commissioner Slaughter’s reinstatement

Rebecca Slaughter’s return-to-work orders have been put on hold for the second time this year, after the U.S. Supreme Court…

Derek B. Johnson
05
Sep
2025

NYU team behind AI-powered malware dubbed ‘PromptLock’ 

Researchers at New York University have taken credit for creating a piece of malware found by third-party researchers that uses…

Sitecore zero-day vulnerability springs up from exposed machine key
04
Sep
2025

Sitecore zero-day vulnerability springs up from exposed machine key

An attacker exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Sitecore stemming from a misconfiguration of public ASP.NET machine keys that customers implemented…

AI can help track an ever-growing body of vulnerabilities, CISA official says
04
Sep
2025

AI can help track an ever-growing body of vulnerabilities, CISA official says

Artificial intelligence could be a key tool for helping organizations keep track of an ever-expanding catalog of identified software flaws,…

Egyptian police confiscated three laptops, four smartphones and Visa cards during an coordinated law enforcement action to shut down Streameast (Egyptian Police via ACE)
04
Sep
2025

Streameast, world’s largest pirated live sports network, shut down by Egyptian authorities

Streameast, the most popular and largest illicit live sports streaming network, was shut down following a coordinated law enforcement action…

Cato Networks acquires AI security startup Aim Security
03
Sep
2025

Cato Networks acquires AI security startup Aim Security

Israeli cybersecurity company Cato Networks has acquired AI security startup Aim Security in its first ever acquisition, reflecting the broader…