Category: cyberscoop

Matt Kapko
24
Feb
2026

CrowdStrike says attackers are moving through networks in under 30 minutes

Cyberattacks reached victims faster and came from a wider range of threat groups than ever last year, CrowdStrike said in…

Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of trying to illicitly take Claude’s capabilities
24
Feb
2026

Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of trying to illicitly take Claude’s capabilities

Anthropic on Monday accused three Chinese artificial intelligence laboratories of stealthily trying to siphon Claude’s capabilities for their own models,…

Derek B. Johnson
21
Feb
2026

Anthropic rolls out embedded security scanning for Claude 

Anthropic is rolling out a new security feature for Claude Code that can scan a user’s software codebases for vulnerabilities…

Ukrainian sentenced to 5 years in prison for facilitating North Korean remote worker scheme
20
Feb
2026

Ukrainian sentenced to 5 years in prison for facilitating North Korean remote worker scheme

A Ukrainian national who ran multiple operations to aid the North Korean government’s expansive scheme to  hire remote IT workers…

Derek B. Johnson
20
Feb
2026

State Dept. official says post-quantum transition plans will outlive current leadership

A cybersecurity official at the State Department called for the public and private sector to more tightly coordinate plans to…

Tim Starks
19
Feb
2026

ONCD official says Trump administration aims to bolster AI use for defense without increasing risk

The Trump administration wants to boost the use of artificial intelligence for security in a way that doesn’t increase the…

Derek B. Johnson
19
Feb
2026

 FBI: Threats from Salt Typhoon are ‘still very much ongoing’

A top FBI cyber official said Salt Typhoon, the Chinese cyber espionage group behind the widespread compromise of U.S. telecommunications…

HHS burrows into identifying risks to health sector from third-party vendors
19
Feb
2026

HHS burrows into identifying risks to health sector from third-party vendors

A Department of Health and Human Services official said Thursday that HHS is devoting a lot of attention to the…

Cynthia Brumfield
19
Feb
2026

The Caracas operation suggests cyber was part of the plan – just not the whole operation

The dominant narrative has framed the Jan. 3 Caracas power outage during the mission to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro…

Nigerian man sentenced to 8 years in prison for running phony tax refund scheme
19
Feb
2026

Nigerian man sentenced to 8 years in prison for running phony tax refund scheme

A 37-year-old Nigerian man was sentenced to eight years in prison for participating in a five-year cybercrime spree to steal…

Derek B. Johnson
18
Feb
2026

Fulton County lawsuit claims feds used ‘gross mischaracterizations’ to justify raid

A former federal official who tested and certified voting machines used in Fulton County, Georgia for the 2020 presidential election…

Google: Chinese state attackers going after Dell zero-day since mid-2024
18
Feb
2026

Google: Chinese state attackers going after Dell zero-day since mid-2024

Researchers uncovered more worrying details about a long-running cyber espionage campaign suspected to be backed by the Chinese government, exemplifying…