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US charges five men linked to ‘Scattered Spider’ with wire fraud

The men have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

By Greg Otto

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Vulnerability disclosure policy bill for federal contractors clears Senate panel

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By Matt Bracken

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Rail and pipeline representatives push to dial back TSA’s cyber mandates

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By Christian Vasquez

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CISOs can now obtain professional liability insurance

By Greg Otto
Sen. Blumenthal wants FCC to get busy on telecom wiretap security rules

By Tim Starks
Microsoft launches ‘Zero Day Quest’ competition to enhance cloud and AI security

By Greg Otto
Bipartisan Senate bill targets supply chain threats from foreign adversaries

By Matt Bracken
Botnet serving as ‘backbone’ of malicious proxy network taken offline

By Greg Otto

Special CyberTalks Edition with National Cyber Director Harry Coker

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The NSO Group company logo is displayed on a wall of a building next to one of their branches in the southern Israeli Arava valley near Sapir community centre on February 8, 2022. NSO Group currently has 39 legal cases against it due to the fallout around its Pegasus spyware product. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Legal barriers complicate justice for spyware victims

Some recent court rulings show the difficult road of anti-spyware litigation, but those in the fight also see signs of promise.

By Tim Starks

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Zero trust: How the ‘Jia Tan’ hack complicated open-source software

By Christian Vasquez

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Sanctioned and exposed, Predator spyware maker group has gone awfully quiet

By Tim Starks

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How Benjamin Franklin is inspiring defenders to protect critical infrastructure

By Christian Vasquez

Cybersecurity regulations face ‘uphill battle’ after Chevron ruling

By Derek B. Johnson

Here’s what corporate boards are asking Kevin Mandia about

By Greg Otto

UnitedHealth Group CISO: We had to ‘start over’ after Change Healthcare attack

By Greg Otto

Intelligence bill would elevate ransomware to a terrorist threat

By Cynthia Brumfield

The pressing threat of Chinese-made drones flying above U.S. critical infrastructure

By Brian Harrell Travis Moran

The missed opportunities in White House’s critical infrastructure directive

By Christian Vasquez

Insights

Agencies push for digital transformation amid security challenges

By Scoop News Group

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Want to scale cyber defenders? Focus on AI-enabled security and organization-wide training

By Jay Bhalodia

Data-driven decision-making: The power of enhanced event logging

By Casey Kahsen

Operationalizing zero trust: A practical guide for modern federal agencies

By Scoop News Group

Videos

Verizon’s Lamont Copeland on defending against the expanding attack surface

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Cisco’s Jane Zipoli on how cloud services affect real-time threat detection

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Cisco’s Marcos Rogers on building the cyber workforce

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Palo Alto Networks’ Eric Trexler talks how AI is affecting cybersecurity planning

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Podcasts

What will GenAI regulation look like in 2025?

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DomainTools’ Sean McNee on how China is watching the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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ReversingLabs’ Saša Zdjelar on the ‘black box’ of commercial software

By CyberScoop Staff

Cal-Berkeley’s Elijah Baucom on how students are helping nonprofits avoid spyware

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Mandiant’s Michael Barnhart on the North Korean IT worker crisis

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Trellix’s John Fokker on the latest cybercriminal snapshot

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Shakhtar Donetsk’s Ukrainian midfielder #10 Georgiy Sudakov (C) vies for the ball during the UEFA Champions League football match FC Shakhtar Donetsk vs BSC Young Boys in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, on November 6, 2024. Hackers were recently found to be exploiting Jupyter notebooks to host illegal streams of this particular Champions League game. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

Attackers are hijacking Jupyter notebooks to host illegal Champions League streams

How to remove the cybersecurity gridlock from the nation’s energy lifelines

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Alleged Russian Phobos ransomware administrator extradited to U.S., in custody

The US Department of State building is seen in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2019. (Photo by Alastair Pike / AFP)

Can the Global Engagement Center make the case for itself?

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NSO Group used WhatsApp exploits after the messaging app sued the spyware developer, court filing says

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More bugs in Palo Alto Expedition see active exploitation, CISA warns

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HackerOne urges U.S. to advocate for research protections in UN cybercrime treaty

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Bitsight acquires Cybersixgill for $115 million

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Here’s how misconfigurations in Microsoft Power Pages could lead to data breaches

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The UN cybercrime convention threatens security research. The US should do something about it

Anne Neuberger, White House cyber warning, potential Russian cyberattacks — Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, speaks March 21, 2022, in the White House Briefing Room. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump administration should focus on cyber rules, grants and international partnerships, Biden official says

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Moody’s Rating adds telecoms, airlines, utilities to highest risk category

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Trustwave and Cybereason announce merger

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