Category: cyberscoop

Microsoft
09
Jul
2025

Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 130 vulnerabilities, none actively exploited

Microsoft addressed 130 vulnerabilities across its products and underlying Windows systems, but none have been actively exploited in the wild,…

Appeals court clears path for El Salvadoran journos to sue spyware maker
09
Jul
2025

Appeals court clears path for El Salvadoran journos to sue spyware maker

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit that El Salvadoran journalists had brought against leading spyware maker NSO…

Treasury slaps sanctions on people, companies tied to North Korean IT worker schemes
08
Jul
2025

Treasury slaps sanctions on people, companies tied to North Korean IT worker schemes

The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced it has sanctioned a North Korean man participating in the widespread IT worker scheme,…

Italian authorities arrest Chinese man over Microsoft Exchange Server hack, targeting of COVID-19 researchers
08
Jul
2025

Italian authorities arrest Chinese man over Microsoft Exchange Server hack, targeting of COVID-19 researchers

The Justice Department said Tuesday that Italian authorities arrested a Chinese national whom DOJ said was involved in the massive…

Matt Kapko
08
Jul
2025

Oligo Security strives to fill application-layer gaps in MITRE ATT&CK framework

Applications are a common intrusion point, but the way attackers gain access, maneuver and create mayhem within and across applications…

Derek B. Johnson
07
Jul
2025

Call of Duty takes PC game offline after multiple reports of RCE attacks on players

The makers of Call of Duty: World War 2 took the PC version of the game offline over the weekend…

Matt Kapko
07
Jul
2025

Scattered Spider weaves web of social-engineered destruction

In an underworld fueled by infamy and money that leaves a trail of human misery in its wake, the unbound…

GOP domestic policy bill includes hundreds of millions for military cyber
07
Jul
2025

GOP domestic policy bill includes hundreds of millions for military cyber

The tax and spending bill Congress sent to President Donald Trump and that he signed into law over the holiday…

Saša Zdjelar
07
Jul
2025

The dual reality of AI-augmented development: innovation and risk

When JPMorgan Chase CISO Patrick Opet published an open letter to software suppliers in April, he wasn’t just raising concerns…

Questions mount as Ivanti tackles another round of zero-days
03
Jul
2025

China-linked attacker hit France’s critical infrastructure via trio of Ivanti zero-days last year

Multiple critical infrastructure sectors were hit last year during an attack spree in France via a trio of zero-day vulnerabilities…

Top FBI cyber official: Salt Typhoon ‘largely contained’ in telecom networks
02
Jul
2025

Top FBI cyber official: Salt Typhoon ‘largely contained’ in telecom networks

The Chinese hackers behind the massive telecommunications sector breach are “largely contained” and “dormant” in the networks, “locked into the…

Cloudflare rolls out ‘pay-per-crawl’ feature to constrain AI’s limitless hunger for data 
01
Jul
2025

Cloudflare rolls out ‘pay-per-crawl’ feature to constrain AI’s limitless hunger for data 

Cloudflare announced Tuesday it will allow customers to block or charge fees for web crawlers deployed to scrape their websites…