Supply chain challenges loom large in quantum race, White House official says
One of the most difficult obstacles to overcome in the quantum race will be the supply chain, given how diffuse it is, a top White…
Category: Cyberscoop
A little-known npm package was North Korea’s warm-up act for the axios hack
Amazon’s security researchers say a hacking group tied to North Korea targeted small, little-noticed software packages more than a year before it struck one of…
Huntress warns about attack spree that hit 30 SonicWall customers in 2 days
Huntress researchers spotted an active and ongoing series of attacks targeting SonicWall VPN and firewall accounts, which compromised 30 organizations in less than two days,…
OpenAI’s rogue agent shows why we need federal rules for autonomous AI
Months before the Hugging Face breach, Emergence AI published research that investigative journalist Ronan Farrow made public. Ten autonomous AI agents operated across five virtual…
AI-assisted security tools are finding more bugs, but the threat level has not changed
AI systems like Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and Microsoft’s MDASH are aiding in the discovery of vulnerabilities, filling the ever-growing pool of defects that defenders have…
Coordinated cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities
More than 30 Minnesota communities saw their water and wastewater utilities disrupted by a coordinated cyberattack on Sunday and Monday, the state’s technology bureau announced…
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos finds weaknesses in encryption algorithms
Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos Preview to find new weaknesses in two cryptographic methods, the company said Tuesday, including one that is being considered by…
FBI sees Anthropic’s Mythos as a law enforcement challenge
Advancements in AI model capabilities, like those found in Anthropic’s Mythos, are raising concerns from law enforcement agencies about what adversaries may be capable of…
Microsoft debuts AI cybersecurity offerings as competition heats up
Microsoft threw its hat into the ring Monday in the increasingly heated competition among AI-powered cybersecurity offerings, unveiling tools that it claims are better and…
Trump asks Supreme Court to let him curtail mail-in voting ahead of midterms
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to let it enforce an executive order that would restrict mail-in voting, after a federal appeals…
Google’s solution to hacker name confusion? Yet another naming system
If you are a CISO, here is a new problem for the pile: Do I worry more about Sandworm Relic or Strawberry Tempest? Last week,…
Sen. Wyden urges feds to discard older, insecure, public-facing VPNs
Sen. Ron Wyden implored a trio of federal leaders Monday to lead a comprhensive campaign to purge older, insecure virtual private networks that are directly…