Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison
Connor Moucka obtained almost $500,000 for playing a key role in one of the most widespread and damaging cyberattack sprees on record. The post Snowflake hac...
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Tom Cotton prods Treasury for tax code tweaks to modernize OT
The Senate Intel Committee chair wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about changes to spur investment in aging technology to better guard against cyber...
Open-source software’s archenemy TeamPCP goes back further than anyone thought
Oligo Security uncovered evidence of a long operational history, including multiple previous attacks it traced to the same attacker infrastructure and tools....
AI is getting better at election facts, but voters shouldn’t rely on it
AI chatbots are avoiding some of the obvious errors that plagued earlier models, but they still fall short giving voters the full picture compared to state a...
National cyber director lays out White House plans to secure AI without writing new rules
The Trump administration executive order on artificial intelligence tried to strike the balance between responsible use, security and mutual benefit, all wit...
AISI, OpenAI report more ‘unsanctioned’ model hacks
Following similar reports by OpenAI and Anthropic, the UK’s top AI testing lab and a private cybersecurity tester say their models exploited parts of the ope...
Massive supply-chain attack compromises 440 packages under four hours
Researchers from multiple security firms observed a variant of Mini Shai-Hulud, self-replicating malware linked to TeamPCP, in all the affected packages. The...
Dem senators criticize Trump administration decisionmaking on AI security risks
The five senators said the administration has alternated between being too passive and overstepping, and China stands to benefit as a result. The post Dem se...
Prolific ransomware group behind SonicWall zero-day attacks
INC ransomware wasn’t the first group to exploit the zero-days, but it’s been the most assertive and effective in chaining both vulnerabilities to steal and ...
Lawmakers spring to save ID theft services for OPM breach victims, with expiration looming
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Senate set to debate package of bills on privacy, AI and kids safety
Headlined by the Kids Online Safety Act, a key committee will look to clear major legislation governing how minors interact with the internet. The post Senat...
How companies could share cyber risks without exposing their secrets
A cryptographic technique could let companies prove they're vulnerable to critical flaws without revealing the sensitive data that attackers could exploit. T...
Public interest coalition urges Congress to investigate OpenAI, Hugging Face hack
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CrowdStrike: AI is now both the weapon and the target in cyberattacks
AI generates 2.5 signals for every human-triggered signal CrowdStrike has to assess.
Trump blames Minnesota for cyberattacks on water sector, drawing pushback from cyber world
The president went against his intelligence agencies’ conclusions about Iran being the likely suspect in the campaign. The post Trump blames Minnesota for cy...
What the Hugging Face breach reveals about defense in the age of agentic AI
We almost never get both sides of an intrusion. This time we did.
Anthropic says its AI accidentally hacked three companies during safety tests
Following OpenAI’s own incident, Anthropic reviewed its own evaluations and found three cases of Claude hacking external companies. The post Anthropic says i...
Okta’s deal for Permiso aims to close gaps in identity threat detection
Ely Kahn, Okta's chief product officer, told CyberScoop the deal enriches the company's current threat detection tools and gives it deeper visibility into AI...
CISA issues recommendations to federal agencies on open-source software security
One expert said they were pleased by the guidance, which touches on open-weight AI models, patching and more. The post CISA issues recommendations to federal...
We know how to protect our troops from telecom attacks. We’re just not doing it.
The post We know how to protect our troops from telecom attacks. We’re just not doing it.