Category: cyberscoop

Matt Kapko
15
May
2025

Who needs VC funding? How cybercriminals spread their ill-gotten gains to everyday business ventures

Cybercriminals aren’t so different from the rest of us — they live in the real world, and their spending and investment…

Fancy Bear campaign sought emails of high-level Ukrainians and their military suppliers
15
May
2025

Fancy Bear campaign sought emails of high-level Ukrainians and their military suppliers

Fancy Bear, the hacking group linked to Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), has been targeting the email accounts of high-ranking…

CFPB to withdraw rule targeting data brokers
14
May
2025

CFPB to withdraw rule targeting data brokers

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is set to withdraw a Biden-era rule aimed at cracking down on data brokers and…

DHS won’t tell Congress how many people it’s cut from CISA
14
May
2025

DHS won’t tell Congress how many people it’s cut from CISA

The Department of Homeland Security won’t tell Congress how many employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency it has…

Cynthia Brumfield
14
May
2025

CVE Foundation eyes year-end launch following 11th-hour rescue of MITRE program

In late March, the nonprofit research organization MITRE celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) program,…

Microsoft logo
14
May
2025

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday closes 72 vulnerabilities, including 5 zero-days

Microsoft addressed 72 vulnerabilities affecting its core products and underlying systems, including five actively exploited zero-days across various Windows components,…

Copyright office criticizes AI ‘fair use’ before director’s dismissal 
14
May
2025

Copyright office criticizes AI ‘fair use’ before director’s dismissal 

President Donald Trump’s firing over the weekend of Shira Perlmutter, director of the U.S. Copyright Office, has drawn strong criticism…

Greg Otto
14
May
2025

Google adds suite of security features to Android 16

Google is rolling out new security features for Android devices as part of its latest operating system update, Android 16,…

A seal reading "Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation" is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington, DC, on August 9, 2022.
13
May
2025

Federal prosecutors extradite alleged leader of BlackBD.cc cybercrime marketplace

Liridon Masurica, the alleged lead administrator of cybercrime marketplace BlackDB.cc, was extradited to the United States on Friday and faces…

Greg Otto
13
May
2025

Wide-ranging Apple security update addresses over 30 vulnerabilities

Apple rolled out a series of substantial security updates Monday for its major software platforms, with advisories covering iOS, iPadOS,…

State and local election officials plead with Congress for election security funding
13
May
2025

State and local election officials plead with Congress for election security funding

As the Trump administration takes a hatchet to the federal government’s election security work and attempts to place conditions on…

Matt Kapko
12
May
2025

US seizes Anyproxy, 5socks botnets and indicts alleged administrators

Federal authorities seized two domains and indicted four foreign individuals for alleged involvement in a long-running botnet service that infected…