Vibe coding is here to stay. Can it ever be secure?
Software powers the world, and soon, the bulk of the work making it may be done by machines. As generative AI tools have gotten more…
Category: Cyberscoop
Salesforce customers duped by series of social-engineering attacks
A financially motivated threat group posing as IT support has intruded the systems of about 20 organizations by duping employees into installing a malicious, illegitimate…
Google addresses 34 high-severity vulnerabilities in June’s Android security update
Google’s June security update for Android devices contains 34 vulnerabilities, all of which the company designates as high-severity defects. The company didn’t disclose any actively…
CrowdStrike, Microsoft aim to eliminate confusion in threat group attribution
CrowdStrike and Microsoft announced an agreement Monday to formally connect the different names each company uses for the same threat groups in their attribution analysis.…
Experts endorse Sean Cairncross for national cyber director ahead of Senate hearing
President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as national cyber director was endorsed by a collection of cyber experts days before a Senate panel will consider…
Future-ready cybersecurity: Lessons from the MITRE CVE crisis
The recent funding crisis surrounding MITRE’s Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)program was more than just a bureaucratic hiccup — it was a wake-up call for…
Top FBI cyber official Cynthia Kaiser exits for Halcyon
Cynthia Kaiser, a former top FBI cyber official, is joining the cybersecurity firm Halycon this week as senior vice president of its newly created ransomware…
Trump budget proposal would slash more than 1,000 CISA jobs
The fiscal 2026 budget proposal President Donald Trump unveiled last week would make deep cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency workforce, with a…
Top counter antivirus service disrupted in global takedown
AVCheck, a large-scale service that cybercriminals use to check if their malware can be detected by various antivirus tools, was seized and taken offline Tuesday…
US intelligence employee arrested for alleged double-dealing of classified info
The FBI on Thursday arrested a Defense Intelligence Agency employee working in the Insider Threat Division unit with top secret security clearance for allegedly attempting…
Four Senate Democrats call on DHS to reinstate Cyber Safety Review Board membership
Four senators asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to reestablish the Cyber Safety Review Board, citing the need to investigate a landmark breach…
Treasury sanctions crypto scam facilitator that allegedly stole $200M from US victims
The Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned Philippines-based Funnull Technology and its administrator Liu Lizhi for allegedly providing infrastructure that supported thousands of cryptocurrency investment scams,…