House passes legislation to criminalize nonconsensual deepfakes
The House passed a bill Monday evening that would criminalize using a person’s likeness to create nonconsensual deepfake pornography. The Take It Down Act sailed…
Category: Cyberscoop
House passes bill to study routers’ national security risks
A bill requiring the Department of Commerce to study national security issues posed by routers and modems controlled by U.S. adversaries passed the House on…
Cybersecurity experts issue response to Trump order targeting Chris Krebs, SentinelOne
SAN FRANCISCO — A sweeping public statement signed by more than 30 prominent cybersecurity professionals and academics has condemned what they describe as political retaliation…
Cybersecurity vendors are themselves under attack by hackers, SentinelOne says
Cybersecurity companies don’t just defend their customers against cyberattacks — they also have to defend themselves, and a SentinelOne report published Monday examines some of…
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 fraud, pig butchering and other…
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 upload vulnerability — CVE-2025-31324 —…
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 said in a report released…
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 comes over to CISA from…
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 speed up the work of…
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 the White House’s definition of…
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 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)…
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 urgent advisories about China’s “Typhoon”…