Category: cyberscoop

CESER chief touts AI projects as congressional Dems point to federal cuts
14
Jan
2026

CESER chief touts AI projects as congressional Dems point to federal cuts

A Trump administration official endorsed a slate of congressional bills Tuesday targeting cybersecurity in the energy sector while touting the…

Microsoft
14
Jan
2026

Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 112 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day

Microsoft’s first security update of 2026 addressed 112 vulnerabilities affecting its products and underlying systems, including one actively exploited zero-day…

Hill warning: Don’t put cyber offense before defense
13
Jan
2026

Hill warning: Don’t put cyber offense before defense

Amid budding sentiment in the Trump administration and Congress to expand offensive cyber operations, some lawmakers and experts are warning…

CrowdStrike is buying Seraphic Security to lock down the browser, where work actually happens
13
Jan
2026

CrowdStrike is buying Seraphic Security to lock down the browser, where work actually happens

CrowdStrike announced Tuesday an agreement to acquire Seraphic Security, a browser runtime security provider, in a move that signals growing…

Robert Rea
13
Jan
2026

ServiceNow patches critical AI platform flaw that could allow user impersonation

ServiceNow has addressed a critical security vulnerability in its AI platform that could have allowed unauthenticated users to impersonate legitimate…

Spanish police disrupt Black Axe, arrest alleged leaders in action spanning four cities
13
Jan
2026

Spanish police disrupt Black Axe, arrest alleged leaders in action spanning four cities

Authorities arrested 34 alleged cybercriminals in Spain, including some leaders of Black Axe, a transnational criminal organization responsible for adversary-in-the-middle…

British regulator Ofcom opens investigation into X
12
Jan
2026

British regulator Ofcom opens investigation into X

The UK’s top internet regulator opened a formal investigation into social media network X after users, with the help of…

Is the US adopting the gray zone cyber playbook?
12
Jan
2026

Is the US adopting the gray zone cyber playbook?

When President Trump referenced America’s ability to “darken” parts of Caracas during Operation Absolute Resolve, the comment stood out not…

Hegseth, Gabbard tap Tim Kosiba as NSA deputy director after months of cyber leadership tumult
09
Jan
2026

Hegseth, Gabbard tap Tim Kosiba as NSA deputy director after months of cyber leadership tumult

The National Security Agency on Friday announced Tim Kosiba as its deputy director, nine months after the Trump administration axed…

Congressional Dems press governors to block feds from accessing state DMV data
09
Jan
2026

Dems pressure Google, Apple to drop X app as international regulators turn up heat

A trio of Senate Democrats are calling on Apple and Google to drop Elon Musk’s X from app stores as…

Inside Vercel’s sleep-deprived race to contain React2Shell
09
Jan
2026

Inside Vercel’s sleep-deprived race to contain React2Shell

Talha Tariq and his colleagues at Vercel, the company that maintains Next.js, endured many sleep-deprived nights and weekends when React2Shell…

CrowdStrike
08
Jan
2026

CrowdStrike to buy identity startup SGNL for nearly $740M

CrowdStrike is buying identity management startup SGNL, a move that underscores how identity security has become a central battleground in…