Category: cyberscoop

Matt Kapko
23
Oct
2025

Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity

Researchers have uncovered a long-running phishing campaign that uses text messages to trick victims, and it’s both bigger and more…

23
Oct
2025

Researchers track surge in high-level Smishing Triad activity

Researchers have uncovered a long-running phishing campaign that uses text messages to trick victims, and it’s both bigger and more…

Greg Otto
22
Oct
2025

Open letter calls for prohibition on superintelligent AI, highlighting growing mainstream concern

An open letter released Wednesday has called for a ban on the development of artificial intelligence systems considered to be…

US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes
22
Oct
2025

US ‘slipping’ on cybersecurity, annual Cyberspace Solarium Commission report concludes

The Trump administration should reverse cyber personnel and budget cuts, strengthen the Office of the National Cyber Director and expand…

Matt Kapko
22
Oct
2025

Researchers uncover remote code execution flaw in abandoned Rust code library

Security specialists at Edera discovered and disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in an early and since-abandoned code for an open-source async…

Robocalling task force bill advances in Senate
21
Oct
2025

Robocalling task force bill advances in Senate

The federal government is shut down and the House remains out of session, but work in the Senate continues, as…

Greg Otto
21
Oct
2025

Veeam acquires Securiti AI for $1.7 billion

Veeam announced Tuesday it agreed to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion, marking the data protection company’s largest acquisition and…

Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million
21
Oct
2025

Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million

Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday to acquire ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity threat intelligence…

Greg Otto
20
Oct
2025

Apple and Google challenged by parents’ rights coalition on youth privacy protections

A nonprofit organization has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, claiming Google’s business practices around children and…

China’s spy agency accuses NSA of yearslong attack on the country’s timekeeping service
20
Oct
2025

China’s spy agency accuses NSA of yearslong attack on the country’s timekeeping service

China’s Ministry of State Security accused the National Security Agency of conducting a yearslong attack on China’s national timekeeping infrastructure…

Judge forbids NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users
20
Oct
2025

Judge forbids NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users

WhatsApp has won a ruling against spyware maker NSO Group forbidding it from targeting its users, while NSO Group in…

Cynthia Brumfield
20
Oct
2025

Behind the struggle for control of the CVE program

On April 16, less than a month after nonprofit R&D organization MITRE celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Common Vulnerability…