Category: cyberscoop

Privacy group sues feds over talks with tech companies on ICE raid trackers 
22
Nov
2025

Privacy group sues feds over talks with tech companies on ICE raid trackers 

A digital privacy group is suing the federal government to obtain records of its communications with technology and social media…

Robert Rea
21
Nov
2025

Legacy web forms are the weakest link in government data security

Federal, state, and local government agencies face a critical vulnerability hiding in plain sight: outdated web forms collecting citizen data…

NSO Group argues WhatsApp injunction threatens existence, future U.S. government work
21
Nov
2025

NSO Group argues WhatsApp injunction threatens existence, future U.S. government work

NSO Group argued in a court filing this week that the court should pause the permanent injunction preventing it from…

Salesforce Tower in San Francisco on June 28, 2019. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
21
Nov
2025

Hundreds of Salesforce customers hit by yet another third-party vendor breach

Salesforce said yet another breach involving a third-party vendor has compromised customers’ data, warning in a security advisory late Wednesday…

SEC drops case against SolarWinds tied to monumental breach
21
Nov
2025

SEC drops case against SolarWinds tied to monumental breach

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday dropped its case against SolarWinds and its chief information security officer over its…

Top Senate Intel Dem warns of ‘catastrophic’ cyber consequences of Trump admin national security firings, politicization
20
Nov
2025

Top Senate Intel Dem warns of ‘catastrophic’ cyber consequences of Trump admin national security firings, politicization

Politicization of intelligence in the Trump administration, as well as the “hollowing out” of government expertise, is leaving the United…

Why Anna Gomez believes the FCC is letting telecoms off easy after Salt Typhoon
20
Nov
2025

Why Anna Gomez believes the FCC is letting telecoms off easy after Salt Typhoon

The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Thursday on whether to rescind a set of last-minute Biden administration regulations…

Palo Alto Networks to acquire observability firm Chronosphere for $3.35 billion
20
Nov
2025

Palo Alto Networks to acquire observability firm Chronosphere for $3.35 billion

Palo Alto Networks announced Wednesday it will acquire Chronosphere, a cloud observability platform, for $3.35 billion in cash and equity,…

Five Eyes just made life harder for bulletproof hosting providers
20
Nov
2025

Five Eyes just made life harder for bulletproof hosting providers

The Treasury Department, along with officials from the United Kingdom and Australia, imposed sanctions Wednesday against two bulletproof hosting providers…

Matt Kapko
19
Nov
2025

Amazon warns of global rise in specialized cyber-enabled kinetic targeting

Amazon said the lines between cyberattacks and physical, real-world attacks are blurring quickly — prompting the tech giant to call…

cryptomining cryptojacking cryptocurrency
19
Nov
2025

Hackers turn open-source AI framework into global cryptojacking operation

Malicious hackers have been attacking the development environment of an open-source AI framework, twisting its functions into a global cryptojacking…

Information sharing law’s expiration could squander government vulnerability hunting efforts, senator says
19
Nov
2025

Information sharing law’s expiration could squander government vulnerability hunting efforts, senator says

Letting a cyber threat data sharing law expire could waste government efforts to find vulnerabilities, since companies would no longer…