Category: cyberscoop

Completed draft of cyber strategy emphasizes imposing costs, industry partnership
18
Nov
2025

Completed draft of cyber strategy emphasizes imposing costs, industry partnership

A forthcoming Trump administration cyber strategy will have six pillars, two of which will be deterring malicious hackers and partnering…

EU sanctions
18
Nov
2025

Dozens of groups call for governments to protect encryption 

On Monday, more than 60 digital commerce and trade groups called on governments around the globe to reject efforts or…

Fortinet’s delayed alert on actively exploited defect put defenders at a disadvantage
18
Nov
2025

Fortinet’s delayed alert on actively exploited defect put defenders at a disadvantage

Federal authorities and researchers alerted organizations Friday to a massively exploited vulnerability in Fortinet’s web application firewall.  While the actively…

DOJ lauds series of gains against North Korean IT worker scheme, crypto thefts
14
Nov
2025

DOJ lauds series of gains against North Korean IT worker scheme, crypto thefts

The Justice Department notched a few more wins in the fight against North Korean cryptocurrency heists and the regime’s expansive…

China’s ‘autonomous’ AI-powered hacking campaign still required a ton of human work 
14
Nov
2025

China’s ‘autonomous’ AI-powered hacking campaign still required a ton of human work 

Anthropic made headlines Thursday when it released research claiming that a previously unknown Chinese state-sponsored hacking group used the company’s…

Tim Starks
14
Nov
2025

Google, researchers see signs that Lighthouse text scammers disrupted after lawsuit

The phishing kit Lighthouse, which has aided text scams like those soliciting victims to pay unpaid road tolls, appears to…

Robert Rea
14
Nov
2025

The retail sector needs a cybersecurity talent incubator

Retail giants have a target on their backs. Hackers are picking them apart at a rate rarely seen in other…

The headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on August 16, 2022, in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
14
Nov
2025

FBI calls Akira ‘top five’ ransomware variant out of 130 targeting US businesses

Federal cyber authorities shared new details Thursday about the Akira ransomware group’s techniques, the tools it uses and vulnerabilities it…

The Washington Post building in Washington. (Andrej Sokolow/Getty Images)
13
Nov
2025

Washington Post confirms data on nearly 10,000 people stolen from its Oracle environment

The Washington Post said it, too, was impacted by the data theft and extortion campaign targeting Oracle E-Business Suite customers,…

Operation Endgame targets malware networks in global crackdown
13
Nov
2025

Operation Endgame targets malware networks in global crackdown

In a sweeping international crackdown coordinated from Europol’s headquarters, law enforcement agencies from the United States and 10 other countries…

Congressional Dems press governors to block feds from accessing state DMV data
13
Nov
2025

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

Forty Democratic members of the House and Senate issued a joint letter Wednesday to 19 states led by Democratic governors,…

Advocacy group calls on OpenAI to address Sora 2’s deepfake risks
12
Nov
2025

Advocacy group calls on OpenAI to address Sora 2’s deepfake risks

Throughout 2024, OpenAI teased the public release of Sora, its new video generation large language model, capable of creating lifelike…