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Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States Kash Patel is seen in the Capitol near a meeting on the administration’s use of FISA authority on March 18, 2026. (Photo by Alex Kent/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The surveillance law Congress can’t quit — and can’t explain

Congress overhauled Section 702 in 2024 with 56 changes. Now, as the law nears expiration, supporters and critics can’t even agree on what the numbers show.

By Tim Starks

Safe Mode

The federal government’s most underrated cybersecurity tool

AI

By CyberScoop Staff

Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Getty Images)

US nationals sentenced for aiding North Korea’s tech worker scheme

Cybercrime

By Matt Kapko

Featured on CyberScoop

Officials seize 53 DDoS-for-hire domains in ongoing crackdown

By Matt Kapko
Ghost breaches: How AI-mediated narratives have become a new threat vector

By Mary Catherine Sullivan Brett Callow
NIST narrows scope of CVE analysis to keep up with rising tide of vulnerabilities

By Matt Kapko
Executive orders likely ahead in next steps for national cyber strategy

By Tim Starks
OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber program with new GPT 5.4 Cyber model

By Derek B. Johnson

Popular Stories

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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

AI-powered health apps are flooding the market. But their data security policy is more of a pinky promise than a legal mandate. (Source: Getty Images)

Your AI doctor doesn’t have to follow the same privacy rules as your real one

AI apps are making their way into healthcare. It’s not clear that rigorous data security or privacy practices will be part of the package.

By Derek B. Johnson

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Cyber scholarship-for-service students say government has pulled rug on them, potentially burdening them with debt

Hiring freezes, budget cuts and more are raising questions about the future of CyberCorps.

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

Trump and others want to ramp up cyber offense, but there’s plenty of doubt about the idea

By Tim Starks Mark Pomerleau

Who is sending those scammy text messages about unpaid tolls?

By Matt Kapko

Insights

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Why cyber modernization requires partners with technical plus acquisition expertise

By Katie Baxter

Image of US Capitol evoking data flow — Image: Scoop News Group

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

Photo illustration of AI and security.

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

By Jay Bhalodia

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 does industry think of the White House’s cybersecurity strategy?

By CyberScoop Staff

When iPhone exploits turn into commodities

By CyberScoop Staff

Behind the scenes of the Socksescort takedown

By CyberScoop Staff

What comes next for Trump’s cybersecurity plan?

By CyberScoop Staff

The Latest

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang participates in a Q&A at the company’s annual GTC developers conference in San Jose, California, on March 17, 2026. Huang on Monday said the leading artificial intelligence chip maker is heading for space with a goal of powering orbiting data centers. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP via Getty Images)

We’re only seeing the tip of the chip-smuggling iceberg

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CISA cancels summer internships for cyber scholarship students amid DHS funding lapse

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Microsoft drops its second-largest monthly batch of defects on record

Space Force official touts AI’s impact on cyber compliance

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Black Basta’s playbook lives on as former affiliates launch fast-scale intrusion campaign

Sean Plankey, of Pennsylvania, responds to questioning during Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings to examine his nomination to be Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, of the Department of Homeland Security, in the Dirksen Senate office building, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday July 24, 2025. (Mattie Neretin/CNP/Sipa USA)

Secretary Mullin must help finish the job: Urge the Senate to confirm Plankey

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing website is displayed on a smartphone screen in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on April 12, 2026. Governments and financial institutions are reviewing potential cybersecurity risks from the company’s advanced AI model, which has identified thousands of software vulnerabilities but is restricted over misuse concerns. (Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Here’s how cyber heavyweights in the US and UK are dealing with Claude Mythos

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OpenAI’s Mac apps need updates thanks to the Axios hack

(L-R) U.S. President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on as White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on December 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump signed an executive order that curbs states’ ability to regulate AI. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Commerce setting up new AI export regime to push adoption of ‘American AI’ abroad

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Iranian attacks on US critical infrastructure puts 3,900 devices in crosshairs

Visitors look at China Telecom’s quantum computing at the China Telecom stand at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in Shanghai, China, on June 19, 2025, during the first day of the Mobile World Conference. (Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Why is the timeline to quantum-proof everything constantly shrinking?

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Inside the FBI’s router takedown that cut off APT28’s ‘tremendous access’

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