Category: cyberscoop

Microsoft
14
Oct
2025

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes 175 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-days

Microsoft addressed 175 vulnerabilities affecting its core products and underlying systems, including two actively exploited zero-days, the company said in…

Justice Department headquarters at night
14
Oct
2025

Officials crack down on Southeast Asia cybercrime networks, seize $15B

Federal authorities seized 127,271 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $15 billion, from Chen Zhi, the alleged leader of a sprawling cybercrime…

Cybereason, RSA 2019
14
Oct
2025

LevelBlue to acquire Cybereason in latest cybersecurity industry consolidation

LevelBlue announced Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cybereason, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm specializing in extended detection…

Flax Typhoon can turn your own software against you
14
Oct
2025

Flax Typhoon can turn your own software against you

By Derek B. Johnson For more than a year, hackers from a Chinese state-backed espionage group maintained backdoor access to…

Derek B. Johnson
14
Oct
2025

Red, Blue, and Now AI: Rethinking Cybersecurity Training for the 2026 Threat Landscape

Cybersecurity today is defined by complexity. Threats evolve in real time, driven by AI-generated malware, autonomous reconnaissance, and adversaries capable…

Matt Kapko
14
Oct
2025

Fortra cops to exploitation of GoAnywhere file-transfer service defect

Fortra, in its most forceful admission yet, confirmed a maximum-severity defect it disclosed in GoAnywhere MFT has been actively exploited…

 Russian spyware ClayRat is spreading, evolving quickly, according to Zimperium
10
Oct
2025

 Russian spyware ClayRat is spreading, evolving quickly, according to Zimperium

A fast-spreading Android spyware is mushrooming across Russia, camouflaging itself as popular apps like TikTok or YouTube, researchers at Zimperium…

Matt Kapko
09
Oct
2025

SonicWall admits attacker accessed all customer firewall configurations stored on cloud portal

A brute-force attack exposed firewall configuration files of every SonicWall customer who used the company’s cloud backup service, the besieged…

Oracle (Getty Images)
09
Oct
2025

Dozens of Oracle customers impacted by Clop data theft for extortion campaign

Clop, the notorious ransomware group, began targeting Oracle E-Business Suite customers three months ago and started exploiting a zero-day affecting…

Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
09
Oct
2025

Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law

A top Senate Democrat introduced legislation Thursday to extend and rename an expired information-sharing law, and make it retroactive to…

Voting groups ask court for immediate halt to Trump admin’s SAVE database overhaul
08
Oct
2025

Voting groups ask court for immediate halt to Trump admin’s SAVE database overhaul

Voting rights groups are asking a court to block an ongoing Trump administration effort to merge disparate federal and state…

Derek B. Johnson
08
Oct
2025

German government says it will oppose EU mass-scanning proposal

Encryption lives on in Europe. For now. The German government has said it will oppose a piece of European Union…