The prolific ransomware group Qilin claimed responsibility for the attack. ATF insists the incident was limited to a standalone system and hasnât impacted critical operations.
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A memecoin, a manifesto, and a week of daily leaks â but to researchers, it's a familiar extortion playbook with an unusually large audience.
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Shasta County registrar Clint Curtis told CyberScoop he needs Peters to help manage the countyâs 2026 elections and heâs not concerned about her past conviction.
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The communications product company disclosed 22 total Wednesday, all but one of which was rated âcriticalâ at 9.0 or higher.
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The full hacking suite, seized by authorities, allowed Chinese government funded attackers to intrude highly sensitive networks undetected for more than eight years.
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The order says any foreign-produced equipment deemed to pose national security risks canât be purchased or installed.
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Elon Musk claimed he was aware of âliterally zeroâ CSAM content created through Grok. A new lawsuit from thousands of real victims say the model was trained on their child abuse.Â
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others say thereâs a narrow âdefendersâ windowâ to strengthen security before AI-powered attacks become more sophisticated.
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Palo Alto Networksâ threat intelligence team said the early waves of threats riding on agentic AI models have broken in the wild, and organizations are unprepared for whatâs coming next.
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The superseding indictment adds defendants and allegations against the Iranian firm accused of a massive cybertheft campaign against foreign universities and others.
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Aug 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted one court order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from implementing an executive order restricting the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections.
Under the bill, FERC would consider cyber threats from quantum computers and post-quantum cryptography in its reliability standards for the energy sector.Â
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Itâs a follow-up to an indictment the Justice Department unsealed last week against people affiliated with the Mabna Institute.
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The multi-country sting targeted Black Axe financial networks, seizing millions in assets and uncovering Crime-as-a-Service infrastructure across four continents.
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Agency red-teamers got initial access to both organizations they tested, but one quickly isolated and shut down the attempts from going further.
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The private equity firm said attackers broke into some of its cloud platforms during a five-day period in early July, compromising sensitive personal data.
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The data theft extortion group likely compromised a critical vulnerability affecting PTCâs product lifecycle management software in June, a month before it sent threatening emails to victims.
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After her prison sentence for felony election-related crimes was commuted, Peters is poised to once again administer critical election duties.
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The agencies said the hackers are taking aim at Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers in what could be a first.
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The designation would unlock a range of federal services, tools and resources for an industry that policymakers view as increasingly tied to national and economic security.
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The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act has won a big House vote and could be on the fast track in the Senate â and supporters say it could help fight cybercrime.
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Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Greg Casar want a GAO probe on the governmentâs use of spyware and other sophisticated hacking tools and authorities.
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The rules have already been rejected by multiple state courts, but the Trump administration said itâs preparing in case of a favorable Supreme Court decision. Â
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The commission is mulling whether to begin regulating bias in AI systems. Critics say theyâre overstepping their legal authority and infringing on free speech.
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NIST is seeking public input to modernize the National Vulnerability Database to keep pace with AI-driven cyber threats and machine-scale security data.
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The airline deactivated the network after the crew realized someone was messing with the in-flight system. The feds are investigating.
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The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily reversed an earlier decision through the shadow docket.Â
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Months after police seized its servers and arrested an alleged operator, the Kimwolf botnet is running code that disguises attacks as Chrome traffic and fetches its orders from the Ethereum blockchain.
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Israeli cyber firm Dream said the framework adapted mid-operation, corrected its mistakes and expanded as it went along.
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One expert called it a âpretty big shift in U.S. cyber policy,â and there have been reservations in the past about opening the door to private sector involvement in cyber offense.
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As frontier models and their sandbox escaping exploits dominate front-page news, researchers are increasingly worried about cheaper, more efficient AI models.Â
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Cameron Curry stole corporate data and employee information, which he used to threaten the company as his six-month contract gig came to a close. He ultimately extorted the company for $7,540.92.
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The âphilosophical shiftâ that the memo authorizes raises legal, practical and moral questions, experts say.
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Angelo Martino exploited his insider position and fed confidential information to ransomware co-conspirators to extort a combined $75.3 million from five U.S.-based victims.
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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 plans for similar incidents, the agency said in a forensic report released Thursday. The bâŚ
Karen Vardanyan faces up to 15 years in federal prison and agreed to pay nearly $1.2 million in restitution.
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Proofpoint researchers said attackers targeted physics and engineering departments, and warn that the campaign is likely ongoing.
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Two new alleged victims detailed how Grok was used by friends and family to generate sexual images of them as minors. The suit also adds Stability AI as a defendant.
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Authorities didnât name the man or file formal charges, but accuse him of participating in attacks linked to Cyber Army of Russia Reborn and NoName.
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The government's new AI clearinghouse risks becoming a committee that discovers more problems than it solves â unless it's designed around patching, not just scanning.
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One of the projectâs top goals is stitching together an international, quick response coalition of governments, businesses and civil experts for AI-related threats.
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Alexis Chavez coerced multiple girls to commit self harm and produce child sexual abuse material for notoriety in a sprawling violent extremist collective affiliated with the Com.
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The anti-fraud crackdown, dubbed Operation First Light, identified more than 142,000 victims of various social-engineering scams.
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AI is surfacing vulnerabilities at a scale the industry has never seen, and most organizations have no way to determine which ones actually matter.
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The AI agent didnât accomplish every step in the late June 2026 attack, but it allowed the threat actor to significantly reduce complexity, speed up the tempo and gain operational advantages.
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At least two websites appear to be victim to 404 hijacking attacks. Army officials took the sites down after being contacted by CyberScoop.
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