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Large Language Models are increasingly being paired with bespoke tools and technical harnesses that can help manage, guide and direct their cybersecurity work. (Image Source: Getty)

Forget the model. When it comes to cybersecurity, it’s all about the harness

Industry has quickly developed tools meant to guide and direct frontier LLMs in cybersecurity. Attackers aren’t far behind.

By Derek B. Johnson

Jay Clayton appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill July 15, 2026 Currently serving as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Clayton’s hearing comes days after his department signed off on controversial subpoenas against New York Times reporters. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images)

Dems press DNI nominee Jay Clayton on election security questions, but leave dismayed

Election Security

By Tim Starks

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Security researchers find stalkers abusing Chrome’s sync feature

Privacy

By Tim Starks

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SonicWall customers under threat as attackers exploit 2 zero-days

By Matt Kapko
White House details ‘Gold Eagle’ clearinghouse for AI cyber threats

By Derek B. Johnson
Microsoft discloses ‘the mother of all’ vulnerability loads, tripling June’s previous record

By Matt Kapko
Treasury sanctions First VPN Service, others for abetting ransomware gangs

By Tim Starks
States are building their own election defense networks as federal support evaporates

By Derek B. Johnson

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

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

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

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Zero days, zero order: The chaos reshaping vulnerability disclosure

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13 July 2026, Belgium, Brüssel: Kaja Kallas, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, is giving an interview in the hallway of the European Council ahead of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU member states. They are set to discuss the situation in the Near and Middle East as well as in Ukraine this Monday in Brussels. Photo: Michael Brandt/dpa (Photo by Michael Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Europe strikes out against Russia’s Turla over espionage, ‘destructive attacks’

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Officials once again warn defenders that Russian hackers are targeting network devices

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AI-generated code has made security debt a governance problem

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

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CISA looks to remedy ailments from big May credential leak

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

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

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764 splinter group leader sentenced to 40 years in jail

A bomb disposal expert walks with his dog as the sun sets at the Trocadero near the Eiffel Tower before the opening of the Paris Peace Forum in Paris on October 29, 2025. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

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

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Found fast, fixed slow: The gap the AI clearinghouse must close

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Spain arrests suspected hacker linked to Russian hacktivist campaign

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

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