Category: cyberscoop

Oracle (Getty Images)
09
Oct
2025

Dozens of Oracle customers impacted by Clop data theft for extortion campaign

Clop, the notorious ransomware group, began targeting Oracle E-Business Suite customers three months ago and started exploiting a zero-day affecting…

Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
09
Oct
2025

Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law

A top Senate Democrat introduced legislation Thursday to extend and rename an expired information-sharing law, and make it retroactive to…

Voting groups ask court for immediate halt to Trump admin’s SAVE database overhaul
08
Oct
2025

Voting groups ask court for immediate halt to Trump admin’s SAVE database overhaul

Voting rights groups are asking a court to block an ongoing Trump administration effort to merge disparate federal and state…

Derek B. Johnson
08
Oct
2025

German government says it will oppose EU mass-scanning proposal

Encryption lives on in Europe. For now. The German government has said it will oppose a piece of European Union…

users, files, cloud, administrator
08
Oct
2025

Microsoft pins GoAnywhere zero-day attacks to ransomware affiliate Storm-1175

Microsoft Threat Intelligence said a cybercriminal group it tracks as Storm-1175 has exploited a maximum-severity vulnerability in GoAnywhere MFT to…

Ali El Kaafarani
07
Oct
2025

OpenAI: Threat actors use us to be efficient, not make new tools

A long-running theme in the use of adversarial AI since the advent of large language models has been the automation…

Matt Kapko
07
Oct
2025

Oracle zero-day defect amplifies panic over Clop’s data theft attack spree

Federal cyber authorities and threat hunters are on edge following Oracle’s Saturday disclosure of an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability the…

House Dems seek info about ICE spyware contract, wary of potential abuses
06
Oct
2025

House Dems seek info about ICE spyware contract, wary of potential abuses

Three House Democrats questioned the Department of Homeland Security on Monday over a reported Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract with…

Potential EU law sparks global concerns over end-to-end encryption for messaging apps 
06
Oct
2025

Potential EU law sparks global concerns over end-to-end encryption for messaging apps 

Tech experts and companies offering encrypted messaging services are warning that  pending European regulation, which would grant governments broad authority…

Matt Kapko
06
Oct
2025

Security leaders at Okta and Zscaler share lessons from Salesloft Drift attacks

When security researchers issued warnings about the Salesloft Drift issues last month, two prominent cybersecurity companies found themselves facing the…

Federal judiciary touts cybersecurity work in wake of latest major breach
03
Oct
2025

Federal judiciary touts cybersecurity work in wake of latest major breach

Federal courts are upgrading their cybersecurity on a number of fronts, but multifactor authentication for the system that gives the…

Researchers say Israeli government likely behind AI-generated disinfo campaign in Iran
03
Oct
2025

Researchers say Israeli government likely behind AI-generated disinfo campaign in Iran

A coordinated Israeli-backed network of social media accounts pushed anti-government propaganda — including deepfakes and other AI-generated content — to…