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 Group. The U.S. Court of…
Category: Cyberscoop
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, as well as others in…
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 Microsoft Exchange Server hack from…
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 doesn’t always neatly fit into…
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 amid widespread reports online that…
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 collective colloquially known as Scattered…
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 weekend contains hundreds of millions…
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 — he was sounding an…
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 affecting Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance…
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 location they’re in” and “not…
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 and data on behalf of…
AT&T deploys new account lock feature to counter SIM swapping
AT&T widely launched its Wireless Account Lock feature Tuesday, aiming to strengthen customer protection against account takeovers and SIM-swapping attacks. The feature comes amid rising…