CrowdStrike investigated 320 North Korean IT worker cases in the past year
North Korean operatives seeking and gaining technical jobs with foreign companies kept CrowdStrike busy, accounting for almost one incident response...
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Senate confirms national cyber director pick Sean Cairncross
The Senate voted to confirm Sean Cairncross as national cyber director Saturday, giving the Trump administration one of its top...
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Cursor’s AI coding agent morphed ‘into local shell’ with one-line prompt attack
Threat researchers at AimLabs on Friday disclosed a data-poisoning attack affecting the AI-powered code editing software Cursor that would have...
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Social engineering attacks surged this past year, Palo Alto Networks report finds
Social engineering — an expanding variety of methods that attackers use to trick professionals to gain access to their organizations’...
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China accuses US of exploiting Microsoft zero-day in cyberattack
U.S. intelligence agencies launched cyberattacks on two Chinese military enterprises dating back to 2022, in one case exploiting a Microsoft...
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Feds still trying to crack Volt Typhoon hackers’ intentions, goals
Federal analysts are still sizing up what the Chinese hackers known as Volt Typhoon, who penetrated U.S. critical infrastructure to...
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Russia-affiliated Secret Blizzard conducting ongoing espionage against embassies in Moscow
A Russian nation-state threat group has been spying on foreign diplomats, managing continuous access to their communications and data in...
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Senate legislation would direct federal agencies to fortify against quantum computing cyber threats
A bipartisan pair of senators are introducing legislation Thursday that would direct a White House office to develop a strategy...
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Project Zero disclosure policy change puts vendors on early notice
Google this week changed how it publicly discloses vulnerabilities in a bid to give defenders early details about new software...
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Senate Democrats call Trump admin’s focus on state voter rolls a pretext for disenfranchisement
As the Trump administration has sought to muscle through changes to election laws and rules across the country, Democrats in...
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Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly
The United States Military Academy abruptly ended the appointment of Jen Easterly to a high-profile academic position in West Point’s...
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Palo Alto Networks to acquire CyberArk for $25 billion
Palo Alto Networks has agreed to acquire identity security firm CyberArk for approximately $25 billion, marking the cybersecurity giant’s largest...
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