Category: cyberscoop

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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…

Matt Kapko
10
May
2025

SonicWall customers confront resurgence of actively exploited vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities are proliferating in SonicWall devices and software this year, putting the vendor’s customers at risk of intrusion via secure…

Senators move to quash the use of Chinese AI system by federal contractors 
09
May
2025

Senators move to quash the use of Chinese AI system by federal contractors 

A bipartisan Senate bill would formally ban the use of DeepSeek by federal contractors, part of a larger effort to…

Sen. Murphy: Trump administration has ‘illegally gutted funding for cybersecurity’
08
May
2025

Sen. Murphy: Trump administration has ‘illegally gutted funding for cybersecurity’

Another top appropriations Democrat criticized budget cuts affecting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, saying the Trump administration has “illegally…

PowerSchool customers hit by downstream extortion threats
08
May
2025

PowerSchool customers hit by downstream extortion threats

Five months after education software vendor PowerSchool paid an unnamed threat actor a ransom in exchange for the deletion of…

CrowdStrike cuts 5% of workforce after revenue jumped 29% last year
07
May
2025

CrowdStrike cuts 5% of workforce after revenue jumped 29% last year

CrowdStrike is cutting 5% of its workforce, about 500 positions, telling its staff that it’s shifting resources and realigning its operating…