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Sources: DHS finalizing replacement for disbanded critical infrastructure security council

ANCHOR will restart conversations between government and industry around critical infrastructure security, with some changes around liability and other areas.

By Derek B. Johnson

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California AG launches investigation into X’s sexualized deepfakes

AI

By Greg Otto

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Kimwolf botnet’s swift rise to 2M infected devices agitates security researchers

Cybersecurity

By Matt Kapko

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Predator spyware demonstrates troubleshooting, researcher-dodging capabilities

By Tim Starks
Microsoft seizes RedVDS infrastructure, disrupts fast-growing cybercrime marketplace

By Matt Kapko
Sean Plankey re-nominated to lead CISA

By Tim Starks
Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 112 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day

By Matt Kapko
CESER chief touts AI projects as congressional Dems point to federal cuts

By Derek B. Johnson

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Cyber scholarship-for-service students say government has pulled rug on them, potentially burdening them with debt

Hiring freezes, budget cuts and more are raising questions about the future of CyberCorps.

By Tim Starks

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A house full of open windows: Why telecoms may never purge their networks of Salt Typhoon

Experts tell CyberScoop that the U.S. telecom system is just too technologically fragmented to gather a clear picture of threats, and too big to ever fully eject…

By Derek B. Johnson

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‘Whatever we did was not enough’: How Salt Typhoon slipped through the government’s blind spots

Seven sources tell CyberScoop that a lack of coordination and miscommunication between federal agencies and the telecommunications industry left critical networks exposed to the Chinese hacking group.

By Tim Starks

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Prolific Russian ransomware operator living in California enjoys rare leniency awaiting trial

Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko allegedly committed ransomware attacks from 2018 to 2022. He’s been out on bond since his arrest almost a year ago, despite multiple run-ins with…

By Matt Kapko

Who needs VC funding? How cybercriminals spread their ill-gotten gains to everyday business ventures

By Matt Kapko

Trump and others want to ramp up cyber offense, but there’s plenty of doubt about the idea

By Tim Starks Mark Pomerleau

Who is sending those scammy text messages about unpaid tolls?

By Matt Kapko

Despite challenges, the CVE program is a public-private partnership that has shown resilience

By Cynthia Brumfield

Legal barriers complicate justice for spyware victims

By Tim Starks

Insights

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Why cyber modernization requires partners with technical plus acquisition expertise

By Katie Baxter

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Why identity is the definitive cyber defense for federal agencies

By Daniel Wilbricht

Agencies push for digital transformation amid security challenges

By Scoop News Group

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Want to scale cyber defenders? Focus on AI-enabled security and organization-wide training

By Jay Bhalodia

Videos

CMMC compliance made practical: A data-first path forward

By Scoop News Group

Why blocking cyber threats is no longer enough

By Scoop News Group

To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy

By Scoop News Group

Red Hat’s Adam Clater on navigating zero trust’s unknowns

By Scoop News Group

Podcasts

The Access‑Trust Gap: Why security can’t see what work depends on

By CyberScoop Staff

How AI has complicated enterprise mobile security

By CyberScoop Staff

Breaking down the latest era of Chinese cyberespionage with Booz Allen’s Nate Beach-Westmoreland

By CyberScoop Staff

How Visa’s CISO turns a ‘paranoid and pessimisitic mindset’ into positive security outcomes

By CyberScoop Staff

The Latest

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., speaks to reporters before attending an afternoon Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Sep. 29, 2023. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Hill warning: Don’t put cyber offense before defense

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ServiceNow patches critical AI platform flaw that could allow user impersonation

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CrowdStrike is buying Seraphic Security to lock down the browser, where work actually happens

A coordinated law enforcement operation that fanned out to Seville, Madrid, Malaga and Barcelona significantly disrupted the group’s activities, according to Europol. (Courtesy of Europol)

Spanish police disrupt Black Axe, arrest alleged leaders in action spanning four cities

The Grok app on an iPhone, against the backdrop of search results displayed on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on a laptop, in London. The Prime Minister has said X need to “get their act together” amid concerns about the creation of sexualised images of adults and children by AI embedded on the social media site. Sir Keir Starmer said he backed Ofcom, which is looking into X and xAI – the firm founded by Elon Musk which created Grok – to take action against the site, and that he had asked for “all options to be on the table”. It comes as a former minister urged the Government and the Labour Party to stop using the site entirely. Users of X appear to have prompted its artificial intelligence Grok, which is integrated into the platform, to generate deepfake images of children “in minimal clothing”. Picture date: Thursday January 8, 2026. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images)

British regulator Ofcom opens investigation into X

U.S. President Donald Trump, and (L-R) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio monitor U.S. military operations in Venezuela, from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club on January 3, 2026 in Palm Beach, Florida. President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores were brought to New York on Saturday after being captured by the U.S. military in Caracas. (Photo by Molly Riley/The White House via Getty Images)

Is the US adopting the gray zone cyber playbook?

Hegseth, Gabbard tap Tim Kosiba as NSA deputy director after months of cyber leadership tumult

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden speaks at the rally to Say NO to Tax Breaks for Billionaires & Corporations at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Fair Share America)

Dems pressure Google, Apple to drop X app as international regulators turn up heat

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Inside Vercel’s sleep-deprived race to contain React2Shell

CrowdStrike — CrowdStrike at the 2020 RSA Conference in San Francisco. (Greg Otto / Scoop News Group)

CrowdStrike to buy identity startup SGNL for nearly $740M

President Donald Trump answers questions while departing the White House on July 11, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump pulls US out of international cyber orgs

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‘Elon Musk is playing with fire:’ All the legal risks that apply to Grok’s deepfake disaster

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Researchers rush to warn defenders of max-severity defect in n8n

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