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Russia uses Cellebrite to break into human rights activist’s phone, even after cancellation of contract

The phone-cracking firm broke off from its deal with Russia, but Citizen Lab said that didn’t stop authorities from surveilling Andrey Pivovarov.

By Tim Starks

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Federal court rules Trump election-focused executive order illegal

Cybersecurity

By Derek B. Johnson

A general view of the DraftKings logo in the outfield during the Major League baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Washington Nationals on June 22, 2021 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, PA. (Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Minnesota man known as ‘Snoopy’ sentenced in DraftKings hack

Cybercrime

By Greg Otto

Featured on CyberScoop

Why patch directives only go so far

By Brad LaPorte
Malicious hackers exploit Cisco zero-day for highest access level at communications service provider

By Tim Starks
In a first, a court takedown goes after two cybercrime tools at once

By Tim Starks
Open-source security is posing challenges governments can’t easily solve

By Tim Starks
Justice Department seizes infrastructure used by cyber scam and criminal marketplace

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

Inside Operation Disruption Week: Taking Down Southeast Asia’s Scam Machine

By CyberScoop Staff

Zero days, zero order: The chaos reshaping vulnerability disclosure

By CyberScoop Staff

Why the autonomous SOC is the wrong goal

By CyberScoop Staff

The last layer standing

By CyberScoop Staff

The Latest

FBI, DOJ, FIN7, Methbot — (Getty Images)

Algerian man charged with running two cybercrime marketplaces

A voter casts a ballot in a drop box outside the Union Market Super Vote Center during early voting in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Court rules SAVE database illegal, orders it dismantled

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order on creating a White House 2028 Olympics task force after signing it in the South Court Auditorium of the White House on Aug. 5, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

Trump executive orders speed up post-quantum migration, boost industry

Intel agencies: Frontier AI models will reshape cybersecurity faster than expected

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Authorities disrupt Evil Corp’s SocGholish botnet

A comparison of an original and deepfake video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Congress tees up No FAKES Act, aiming at AI-generated deepfakes

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Accenture shells out $4.18B on three companies in big industrial cybersecurity push

Fortinet headquarters — Fortinet headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, USA on June 10, 2023. (Getty Images)

Attackers hit pair of critical Fortinet vulnerabilities the vendor disclosed in April

(L-R) Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., accept the Bipartisan Leadership in AI Award onstage during the Second Annual AI Honors hosted by the Washington AI Network at Waldorf Astoria Washington D.C. on June 3, 2026. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Washington AI Network)

Lawmakers leery about Trump administration’s Anthropic order

Researchers at Backslash Security pored through update logs for Claude Code, Anthropic’s flagship coding model, finding the company was patching dozens of newly discovered security vulnerabilities in the program between April and early June 2026. (Source: Getty Images)

AI’s constant patching treadmill can be a security problem

The SBOM, commonly described as an inventory of software ingredients, emerged in the 2010s and has expanded beyond software to include hardware and AI. (Getty Images)

A case for how to shape ‘ingredient lists’ for AI models

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Google exposes China espionage group that’s been lurking in networks undetected since 2023

Anthropic announced the release of two new Mythos-class artificial intelligence models designed for cybersecurity and biomedical research, targeting both consumers and businesses. (Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Cybersecurity experts don’t think Anthropic’s Fable 5 presents a unique threat

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