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 its annual global threat report…
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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, potentially in a way that…
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 and suggest patching solutions. The…
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 at U.S. companies was sentenced…
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 transition their systems, devices and…
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 number of targets for adversaries…
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 infrastructure in 2024, continues to…
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 security of third-party service providers…
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 as a “precision cyberattack.” But…
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 money from the U.S. government…
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 told a court that the…
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 how such attacks often go…