While White House demands deterrence, Trump shrugs
The Trump administration’s top cyber officials have emphasized the urgent need to take aggressive action to deter increasingly brazen foreign cyberattacks. Trump himself, however, has…
Category: Cyberscoop
Google files lawsuit against Lighthouse ‘phishing for dummies’ text scammers
Google on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against pesky text message scammers — like those who flood targets with notices that they have unpaid road tolls,…
Amazon pins Cisco, Citrix zero-day attacks to APT group
Amazon’s threat intelligence team said it observed an advanced persistent threat group exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Identity Service Engine and Citrix NetScaler products before…
Maryland man faces federal charges for crimes allegedly linked to 764
A 20-year-old Maryland man allegedly associated with violent extremist group 764 is in federal custody, facing charges for sexual exploitation of children, online coercement and…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 63 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day
Microsoft addressed 63 vulnerabilities affecting its underlying systems and core products, including one actively exploited zero-day, the company said in its latest monthly security update. …
Amazon rolls out AI bug bounty program
Amazon became the latest company to open its large language models to outside security researchers, announcing the creation of a new bug bounty program for…
Hitachi subsidiary GlobalLogic impacted by Clop’s attack spree on Oracle customers
GlobalLogic, a digital engineering and product design company, said it was impacted by a widespread data theft and extortion campaign linked to a zero-day vulnerability…
BigBear.ai to buy Ask Sage, strengthening security-centric AI for federal agencies
Virginia-based BigBear.ai announced Monday it will acquire Ask Sage, a generative artificial intelligence platform specializing in secure deployment of AI models and agentic systems across…
What’s left to worry (and not worry) about in the F5 breach aftermath
Researchers aren’t very concerned about the dozens of undisclosed F5 vulnerabilities a nation-state attacker stole during a prolonged attack on F5’s internal systems. Yet, the…
CISA’s expiration leaves a dangerous void in US cyber collaboration
On Sept. 30, 2025, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA 2015) officially expired, ending a decade-long framework that helped government and industry share cyber-threat data…
Cyber information sharing law would get extension under shutdown deal bill
Legislation to end the federal government shutdown includes a provision that would extend an expired cybersecurity information sharing law through the end of January. Extension…
Russian national pleads guilty to breaking into networks for Yanluowang ransomware attacks
A 25-year-old Russian national pleaded guilty to multiple charges stemming from their participation in ransomware attacks and faces a maximum penalty up to 53 years…