Category: cyberscoop

House bill seeks better tech to combat financial fraud scams against elderly
25
Apr
2025

House bill seeks better tech to combat financial fraud scams against elderly

A bipartisan trio of House lawmakers is pushing a bill that would give law enforcement more resources to tackle financial…

SAP zero-day vulnerability under widespread active exploitation
25
Apr
2025

SAP zero-day vulnerability under widespread active exploitation

Threat hunters and security researchers have observed widespread exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability affecting SAP NetWeaver systems. The unrestricted file…

cybersecurity
25
Apr
2025

VulnCheck spotted 159 actively exploited vulnerabilities in first few months of 2025

Attackers exploited nearly a third of vulnerabilities within a day of CVE disclosure in the first quarter of 2025, VulnCheck…

CISA gets new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala
25
Apr
2025

CISA gets new No. 2: Madhu Gottumukkala

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will soon have a new second-in-command. Madhu Gottumukkala has been named deputy director. He…

Tim Starks
25
Apr
2025

AI speeds up analysis work for humans, two federal cyber officials say

Two federal cybersecurity officials said Thursday that they’re using — or contemplating using — artificial intelligence to conduct tasks that…

Judge tosses citizenship provisions in Trump elections order
25
Apr
2025

Judge tosses citizenship provisions in Trump elections order

A federal court partially blocked a Trump administration executive order Thursday that seeks to impose requirements on states to use…

Attackers hit security device defects hard in 2024
24
Apr
2025

Attackers hit security device defects hard in 2024

Attackers are having a field day with software defects in security devices, according to a new report released Wednesday by…

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.
23
Apr
2025

10 key numbers from the 2024 FBI IC3 report

It looks like 2024 was a record year in cybercrime for all the wrong reasons, according to the FBI’s annual…

Cynthia Brumfield
23
Apr
2025

AI can help defenders stop nation-state threat actors at machine speed

Last year, the escalating concerns about Chinese threat actors breaching U.S. organizations reached a crescendo as federal authorities issued increasingly…

Matt Kapko
23
Apr
2025

Verizon discovers spike in ransomware and exploited vulnerabilities

Cybercriminals and state-sponsored threat groups exploited vulnerabilities and initiated ransomware attacks with vigor last year, escalating the scope of their…

Outside experts pick up the slack on safety testing on OpenAI’s newest model release
23
Apr
2025

Outside experts pick up the slack on safety testing on OpenAI’s newest model release

GPT-4.1, the latest family of generative AI models from OpenAI, was released earlier this month with promised improvements around coding,…

Attackers stick with effective intrusion points, valid credentials and exploits
22
Apr
2025

Attackers stick with effective intrusion points, valid credentials and exploits

IBM X-Force observed an identical breakdown of the top methods cybercriminals used to intrude networks for two years running, the…