Category: cyberscoop

Ukrainian national pleads guilty to Nefilim ransomware attacks
20
Dec
2025

Ukrainian national pleads guilty to Nefilim ransomware attacks

Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak, a 35-year-old Ukrainian national, pleaded guilty Friday to multiple crimes stemming from his involvement in a string…

Cybersecurity abstract
20
Dec
2025

Former incident responders plead guilty to ransomware attack spree

Former cybersecurity professionals Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Tyler Martin pleaded guilty Thursday to participating in a series of ransomware…

FBI says ‘ongoing’ deepfake impersonation of U.S. gov officials dates back to 2023
20
Dec
2025

FBI says ‘ongoing’ deepfake impersonation of U.S. gov officials dates back to 2023

The FBI said that unknown actors have continued to deploy AI voice cloning tools in an ongoing effort to impersonate…

Matt Kapko
19
Dec
2025

Cisco customers hit by fresh wave of zero-day attacks from China-linked APT

Cisco customers are confronting a fresh wave of attacks from a Chinese threat group that has actively exploited a critical…

Policymakers grapple with fallout from Chinese AI-enabled hack
19
Dec
2025

Policymakers grapple with fallout from Chinese AI-enabled hack

Policymakers and companies are reckoning with increased reports over the past few months showing AI tools being leveraged to conduct…

Robert Rea
18
Dec
2025

U.S. Sentencing Commission seeks input on criminal penalties for deepfakes

The U.S. Sentencing Commission is issuing preliminary sentencing guidelines for criminal offenses under the Take It Down Act, a law…

Senate Intel chair urges national cyber director to safeguard against open-source software threats
18
Dec
2025

Senate Intel chair urges national cyber director to safeguard against open-source software threats

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton is raising the spectre of foreign adversaries playing too heavy a role in open-source…

Matt Kapko
18
Dec
2025

React2Shell fallout spreads to sensitive targets as public exploits hit all-time high

Fallout from React2Shell — a stubborn vulnerability that impacts wide swaths of the internet’s scaffolding — continues to spread as…

DOJ announces takedown of alleged laundering platform used by cybercriminal groups
18
Dec
2025

DOJ announces takedown of alleged laundering platform used by cybercriminal groups

Federal prosecutors in Michigan say they have dismantled online infrastructure tied to an alleged money laundering operation that moved tens…

Illusory Systems settles with FTC over 2022 cryptocurrency hack
17
Dec
2025

Illusory Systems settles with FTC over 2022 cryptocurrency hack

The Federal Trade Commission is ordering a company that publicly touted its cybersecurity capabilities to return recovered funds to victims…

Outgoing GAO chief warns of ‘taking our foot off the gas’ at CISA
17
Dec
2025

Outgoing GAO chief warns of ‘taking our foot off the gas’ at CISA

Retiring Comptroller General Gene Dodaro delivered a message to lawmakers Tuesday on what he believes should be one of Congress’s…

Key lawmaker says Congress likely to kick can down road on cyber information sharing law
16
Dec
2025

Key lawmaker says Congress likely to kick can down road on cyber information sharing law

With a little more than a month left before a foundational cyber threat information sharing law expires for a second…