Wide-ranging Apple security update addresses over 30 vulnerabilities
Apple rolled out a series of substantial security updates Monday for its major software platforms, with advisories covering iOS, iPadOS, and two versions of macOS…
Category: Cyberscoop
State and local election officials plead with Congress for election security funding
As the Trump administration takes a hatchet to the federal government’s election security work and attempts to place conditions on funding to states, state and…
US seizes Anyproxy, 5socks botnets and indicts alleged administrators
Federal authorities seized two domains and indicted four foreign individuals for alleged involvement in a long-running botnet service that infected older wireless internet routers, the…
SonicWall customers confront resurgence of actively exploited vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities are proliferating in SonicWall devices and software this year, putting the vendor’s customers at risk of intrusion via secure access gateways and firewalls. The…
Senators move to quash the use of Chinese AI system by federal contractors
A bipartisan Senate bill would formally ban the use of DeepSeek by federal contractors, part of a larger effort to keep the Chinese-made large language…
Sen. Murphy: Trump administration has ‘illegally gutted funding for cybersecurity’
Another top appropriations Democrat criticized budget cuts affecting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, saying the Trump administration has “illegally gutted funding for cybersecurity.” Connecticut…
PowerSchool customers hit by downstream extortion threats
Five months after education software vendor PowerSchool paid an unnamed threat actor a ransom in exchange for the deletion of sensitive stolen data, some of…
CrowdStrike cuts 5% of workforce after revenue jumped 29% last year
CrowdStrike is cutting 5% of its workforce, about 500 positions, telling its staff that it’s shifting resources and realigning its operating model for growth in new…
Six DDoS sites seized in multi-national law enforcement operation
Authorities in Poland have arrested four people accused of administrating and selling access to distributed denial of service (DDoS) services, according to a press release…
NSO Group owes $168M in damages to WhatsApp over spyware infections, jury says
A federal jury decided Tuesday that NSO Group must pay WhatsApp approximately $168 million in damages after a judge ruled that it violated anti-hacking laws…
Trump calls on Colorado to release election-denying clerk from jail
President Donald Trump is calling on Colorado state officials to release Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk serving a nine-year prison sentence for stealing…
House appropriators have reservations — or worse — about proposed CISA cuts
House appropriators on Tuesday challenged proposed budget cuts for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, with Democrats saying the Trump administration was disturbingly moving money…