US lifting export control restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos, Fable
By Derek B. Johnson Anthropic has announced its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models will once again be available to the public as it has…
Category: Cyberscoop
This phishing kit looks more like BEC-as-a-service
Toolkits to wage phishing campaigns are a now-venerable instrument for cybercriminals, but researchers recently turned up details on something like a full-fledged “business email compromise-as-a-service”…
Citrix patches a new NetScaler flaw with echoes of CitrixBleed
Citrix published a security bulletin Tuesday disclosing six vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances, including a high-severity memory disclosure flaw that researchers say…
Trump budget boss Russell Vought open to re-staffing CISA
Trump administration budget chief Russell Vought told lawmakers Tuesday that he’s willing to work with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on re-staffing up…
DHS to unveil replacement council for critical infrastructure cybersecurity
The Department of Homeland Security is bringing back a key cybersecurity information sharing effort with critical infrastructure, more than a year after the Trump administration…
How ransomware syndicates weaponize corporate-style organization
Similar to the events that unfolded with the Conti ransomware group’s demise in 2022, leaked internal chat logs of the Black Basta cybercrime group last…
Supreme Court delivers ‘major win’ for tech privacy in Chatrie ruling
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that collecting phone location data from a geographic area is a Fourth Amendment search, in a decision that both privacy…
Warner bill would create federally vetted list for secure, trustworthy AI agents
A new Senate draft bill would establish a list of AI agent software providers that people can use to establish human ownership and securely run…
Supreme Court approves mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the right of states to accept mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day, but can arrive…
What the post-quantum executive order really demands of CISOs
Post-quantum cryptography didn’t sneak up on the industry. For years, security teams, standards bodies, hyperscalers, and governments have been pointing at the same horizon: a…
ATF cancels controversial commercial geolocation contract
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) canceled a contract with Penlink that used ad-surveillance technologies to track the location of Americans. The…
Minnesota man known as ‘Snoopy’ sentenced in DraftKings hack
A 21-year-old Minnesota man who operated under the online alias “Snoopy” was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for his role in a…