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U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., attends a subcommittee hearing with the Senate Committee on Appropriations in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 22, 2026. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Dem senators criticize Trump administration decisionmaking on AI security risks

The five senators said the administration has alternated between being too passive and overstepping, and China stands to benefit as a result.

By Tim Starks

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 03: (L-R) Chairman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ranking member Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) arrive for a hearing with the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., wants hearings to force AT&T and Verizon to disclose how they’ve responded to the hacks to protect telecom networks. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Senate set to debate package of bills on privacy, AI and kids safety

AI

By Derek B. Johnson

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., speaks at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on March 10, 2024. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Lawmakers spring to save ID theft services for OPM breach victims, with expiration looming

Government

By Tim Starks

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Prolific ransomware group behind SonicWall zero-day attacks

By Matt Kapko
How companies could share cyber risks without exposing their secrets

By Georgianna Shea
Public interest coalition urges Congress to investigate OpenAI, Hugging Face hack

By Madison Alder
CrowdStrike: AI is now both the weapon and the target in cyberattacks

By Matt Kapko
Trump blames Minnesota for cyberattacks on water sector, drawing pushback from cyber world

By Tim Starks

Popular Stories

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How software development’s speed obsession enabled TeamPCP’s chaos crusade

The threat group’s remarkable success targeting open-source software was inevitable and fueled by the industry’s decision to prioritize code shipping over security.

By Matt Kapko

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Inside the race to adapt to an AI-powered security world

AI is breaking things faster than anyone can fix them. Security leaders across the industry are racing to figure out what comes next.

By Greg Otto

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Security leaders say the next two years are going to be ‘insane’

Kevin Mandia, Morgan Adamski, and Alex Stamos tell CyberScoop that AI is finding bugs faster than anyone can fix them, exploit development is accelerating, and most organizations…

By Greg Otto

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Across party lines and industry, the verdict is the same: CISA is in trouble

The agency lost a third of its people in a year. Now industry and lawmakers on both sides say it's unprepared for a potential crisis.

By Tim Starks

Your AI doctor doesn’t have to follow the same privacy rules as your real one

By Derek B. Johnson

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

By Tim Starks

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

By Derek B. Johnson

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

By Tim Starks

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

By Matt Kapko

Insights

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Weaponized AI: The new frontier of fraud and identity spoofing

By Fernanda Sottil

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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

Videos

T-Mobile’s Eric Jensen on the challenge of securing vast supply chains

By CyberScoop Staff

Datadog’s Emilio Escobar on compliance-first AI

By Scoop News Group

Cohesity’s Marlin McFate on risks tied to growing cloud dependence

By Scoop News Group

ThreatLocker’s Rob Allen on the dual impact of AI

By Scoop News Group

Podcasts

Why Cybersecurity is at the heart of the US-China AI race

By CyberScoop Staff

A builder’s view of the AI arms race

By CyberScoop Staff

What the Section 702 lapse means for cybersecurity

By CyberScoop Staff

What the post-quantum executive order means for CISOs

By CyberScoop Staff

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The OpenAI logo is displayed on a smartphone screen placed on a reflective surface, photographed using a slow exposure with a motion blur effect, in Creteil, France, on May 12, 2026. Daybreak is an AI-powered cybersecurity service designed to detect, analyze, and remediate software vulnerabilities more quickly. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

What the Hugging Face breach reveals about defense in the age of agentic AI

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Anthropic says its AI accidentally hacked three companies during safety tests

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Okta’s deal for Permiso aims to close gaps in identity threat detection

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CISA issues recommendations to federal agencies on open-source software security

A Soldier takes a cell phone picture as Lt. Col Astrid Ruiz-Fernandez, the exiting commander of the 205th Theater Public Affairs Support Element, speaks to the 205th TPASE for the last time as the commanding officer during a change of command ceremony June 7, 2025 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, TX. The change of command ceremony celebrates the transition of command of Lt. Col Astrid Ruiz-Fernandez to Lt. Col Brett Walker as the commander of the 205th Theater Public Affairs Support Element. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Blake A. Essex)

We know how to protect our troops from telecom attacks. We’re just not doing it.

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Ghanaian national sentenced to 7 years in prison for stealing $10M from romance scam victims

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A little-known npm package was North Korea’s warm-up act for the axios hack

Visitors view the IBM Quantum System Two at the Future Lab during the Goodwood Festival of Speed at Goodwood Motor Circuit on July 9, 2026 in Chichester, England. (Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images)

Supply chain challenges loom large in quantum race, White House official says

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Huntress warns about attack spree that hit 30 SonicWall customers in 2 days

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OpenAI’s rogue AI agent shows why we need federal rules for autonomous systems

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Here’s what Anthropic found when it turned Mythos loose on encryption algorithms

Coordinated cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities

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FBI sees Anthropic’s Mythos as a law enforcement challenge

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