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…
Category: Cyberscoop
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…
US sanctions bulletproof hosting provider for supporting ransomware, infostealer operations
Federal authorities levied sanctions Tuesday on Aeza Group, a bulletproof hosting service provider based in Russia, for allegedly supporting a broad swath of ransomware, malware…
Scammers have a new tactic: impersonating DOGE
Scammers are impersonating the Department of Government Efficiency in an effort to steal personal information and possibly take advantage of people who believe they’ll receive…
Arrest, seizures in latest U.S. operation against North Korean IT workers
U.S. authorities unsealed indictments, seized financial accounts and made an arrest in the latest attempt to crack down on North Korean remote IT workers as…
Hacker helped kill FBI sources, witnesses in El Chapo case, according to watchdog report
A hacker working on behalf of the Sinaloa drug cartel infiltrated cameras and phones to track an FBI official in Mexico investigating the drug lord…
Slavery, torture, human trafficking discovered at 53 Cambodian online scamming compounds
An Amnesty International investigation uncovered 53 scamming compounds in Cambodia where people, including children and human trafficking victims, were forced to work and tortured or…