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CISA looks to remedy ailments from big May credential leak

A major credential leak spurred the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to strengthen protections for its sensitive materials, improve how researchers can report agency vulnerabilities and develop…

By Tim Starks

The Department of Justice building in Washington, DC, on February 9, 2022. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Armenian national pleads guilty to Ryuk ransomware attacks

Cybercrime

By Matt Kapko

Interpol Operation First Light — Police in Eswatini seized a replica of a Brazilian police station, including fake uniforms and signage that cybercriminals allegedly used to deceive victims. (Interpol)

Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries

Cybercrime

By Matt Kapko

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Former DigitalMint ransomware negotiator who duped clients sentenced to 70 months in jail

By Matt Kapko
764 splinter group leader sentenced to 40 years in jail

By Matt Kapko
French nonprofit starts global intelligence and research hub for AI cyber threats

By Derek B. Johnson
Found fast, fixed slow: The gap the AI clearinghouse must close

By Ilona Cohen
Spain arrests suspected hacker linked to Russian hacktivist campaign

By Matt Kapko

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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

What the post-quantum executive order means for CISOs

By CyberScoop Staff

How security investigators can get the right info out of AI security tools

By CyberScoop Staff

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

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Activist group ‘Everyone Hates Elon’ anti-Musk and X poster placed in a bus stop on the 14th of January 2026, London, United Kingdom. The poster is a reference to the highly controversial new AI tool on X called Grok which can undress pictures of people on command, which this poster suggests enables it as a tool for child abuse. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Deepfake CSAM lawsuit against xAI, Grok expands

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Suspected Chinese espionage group used a Roundcube exploit chain to burrow into universities

Two U.S. Army websites were defaced with pro-Kurdish messaging. (Image Source: Getty)

US Army websites defaced with pro-Kurdish sentiments, insults to Trump

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Sysdig clocks first documented case of agentic ransomware

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Finding vulnerabilities was never the hard part

Stelios Kouloglou arrives for a meeting with the police commissioner at the police headquarters on Dec. 3, 2019 in Valletta, Malta. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP) (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

Someone infected a spyware probe overseer with spyware

Traffic streaks past the Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters building late in the evening on May 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Alleged longstanding member of Scattered Spider extradited to US

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Researchers spot exploitation of another critical Oracle defect

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)

US lifting export control restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos, Fable

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This phishing kit looks more like BEC-as-a-service

Citrix rated the overall bulletin severity as high and assigned CVSS scores ranging from 6.9 to 8.8 across the six CVEs. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Citrix patches a new NetScaler flaw with echoes of CitrixBleed

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 30: White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on June 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government heard testimony from Vought on President Trump’s FY2027 budget request. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump budget boss Russell Vought open to re-staffing CISA

The information sharing effort will allow intelligence community agencies to interact with key owners and operators of water, power, internet and telecommunications to coordinate on cyberattacks and digital vulnerabilities. (Getty Images)

DHS to unveil replacement council for critical infrastructure cybersecurity

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