Officials said thousands of people, typically between 11 and 25 years old, are engaged in a growing and evolving online threat to commit crime for money, retaliation, ideology, sexual gratification and notoriety.
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Researchers in California contacted data brokers in their state to exercise their rights under the California Privacy Protection Act. Many didn’t reply, while others threw up barriers.
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The tech giant’s model is built around anticompetitive practices, the head of the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing argues.
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The announcement comes as an Arizona woman was sentenced to more than eight years in jail for her role in running a laptop farm.
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The Departments of Energy, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services have been impacted.
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But Trump’s pick to lead CISA sidestepped questions about alleged past or future election manipulation claims.
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It also builds on previous efforts to promote “secure by design” principles in AI systems and tools.
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Officials accuse the unnamed suspect of running XSS.is, a key and long-running marketplace with more than 50,000 registered users. The suspect allegedly made more than $8.2 million.
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The software defects, which have a maximum-severity rating, do not require authentication and allow remote attackers to execute code arbitrarily on the underlying system.
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A program manager at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory told lawmakers Tuesday that the recent contract expiration puts OT security at risk.
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GOP lawmakers say they’re committed to altering national voting laws to make it easier for states to purge potentially eligible voters.
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Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon and Storm-2603 are behind the initial attack spree that erupted over the weekend. Other threat groups are now following suit.
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Private companies would also have to report to the government if they plan to pay off cybercriminals.
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As the state responded to a pro-Iranian attack, officials tell CyberScoop that it avoided reaching out to the federal agency, partly because it has been “politicized and weakened” under the president.
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Attackers have already used the exploit dubbed “ToolShell” to intrude hundreds of organizations globally, including private companies and government agencies.
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The U.S. is stepping into a new cyber era, and it comes not a moment too soon. With the Trump administration’s sweeping $1 billion cyber initiative in the “Big Beautiful Bill” and growing congressional momentum under the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to strengthen cyber deterrence, we’re seeing a shift in posture that many […]
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The hackers were allegedly involved in operations against Ukraine and a Russian on U.K. soil, the latter with malware tied to U.S. 2016 election interference.
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The food distributor and wholesaler completely shut down its systems upon discovering the attack last month, yet core systems were restored and normal operating capacity returned within three weeks.
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Karen Vardanyan and his co-conspirators allegedly deployed ransomware on hundreds of machines in 2019 and 2020, extorting more than $15 million from victims at the time.
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The House Homeland Committee will revisit the malware to use the knowledge from the spy effort to explore the domestic threats facing the U.S. in 2025.
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