pcTattleTale stalkerware maker sentence includes fine, supervised release
A federal judge has sentenced the maker of stalkerware pcTattleTale, which went out of business after a data breach, to supervised release and a $5,000…
Category: Cyberscoop
Wyden warns Social Security chief: Trump’s voter database is ‘blatant voter suppression’
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., warned Social Security Administration chief Frank Bisignano that any follow-through on President Donald Trump’s executive order creating a new database of…
Trump budget proposal would cut hundreds of millions more from CISA
President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget would slash the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s total by $707 million, according to a summary released Friday, which…
Medtech giant Stryker says it’s back up after Iranian cyberattack
Medtech company Stryker says it’s back to being “fully operational,” three weeks after it became the most prominent victim to date of Iranian hackers, who…
Lawmakers renew push for Labor Department-backed cyber apprenticeship grants
With the country’s cybersecurity workforce still experiencing major shortages, a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers is pushing to enlist the Department of Labor to help…
House Dems decry confirmed ICE usage of Paragon spyware
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed it is using Paragon spyware, prompting outrage Thursday from a trio of House Democrats. In response to a letter…
Akira ransomware group can achieve initial access to data encryption in less than an hour
The Akira ransomware group has compromised hundreds of victims over the past year with a well-honed attack lifecycle that has whittled down the time from…
European-Chinese geopolitical issues drive renewed cyberespionage campaign
A Chinese cyberespionage group has shifted its gaze back to Europe after years of focusing on other parts of the world, Proofpoint research published Wednesday…
White House executive order purports to limit mail-in voting, mandate federal voter lists
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that purports to limit mail-in voting, though critics say the move will almost certainly be challenged in…
Attack on axios software developer tool threatens widespread compromises
A hacker briefly delivered malware this week through a popular open-source project for software developers that has an estimated 100 million weekly downloads, raising the…
Researchers say credential-stealing campaign used AI to build evasion ‘at every stage’
A new malware-based credential-stealing campaign, which researchers are calling “DeepLoad,” has been infecting enterprise business IT environments over the past In a report released Monday,…
Security leaders say the next two years are going to be ‘insane’
SAN FRANCISCO — Every RSA Conference has its buzzwords. Cloud. Ransomware. Zero trust. Plastered across the 87-acre Moscone Center complex on every booth, banner and…