Don’t just fight fraud, hunt it
Our nation has entered a new fraud arms race fueled by AI. With billions of dollars in fraud losses mounting in both the private and…
Category: Cyberscoop
Hack-for-hire spyware campaign targets journalists in Middle East, North Africa
An apparent hack-for-hire campaign from a group with suspected Indian government connections targeted Middle Eastern and North African journalists and activists using spyware, three collaborating…
Cybercrime losses jumped 26% to $20.9 billion in 2025
Cybercrime remains a booming business. Annual cybercrime losses amounted to almost $20.9 billion last year, reflecting a 26% increase from 2024, the FBI’s Internet Crime…
Feds quash widespread Russia-backed espionage network spanning 18,000 devices
Russian state-sponsored attackers compromised more than 18,000 routers spread across more than 120 countries to gain deeper access to sensitive networks for a large-scale espionage…
Iranian hackers launching disruptive attacks at U.S. energy, water targets, feds warn
Iranian government hackers are launching disruptive cyberattacks on American energy and water infrastructure, U.S. government agencies “urgently” warned Tuesday. The hackers are taking aim at…
Tech giants launch AI-powered ‘Project Glasswing’ to identify critical software vulnerabilities
Major technology companies have joined forces in an effort to use advanced artificial intelligence to identify and address security flaws in the world’s most critical…
‘GrafanaGhost’ bypasses Grafana’s AI defenses without leaving a trace
Security researchers at Noma Security have disclosed a new vulnerability they are calling GrafanaGhost, an exploit capable of silently stealing sensitive data from Grafana environments…
Fortinet customers confront actively exploited zero-day, with a full patch still pending
Fortinet released an emergency software update over the weekend to address an actively exploited vulnerability in FortiClient EMS, an endpoint management tool for customer devices.…
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…
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…