The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks
Experts and policymakers want AI companies to face consequences for agentic hacks. There may not be a clear-cut answer under existing laws and regulations.
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CyberScoop spoke with members of Congress, former federal law enforcement officials, cybersecurity attorneys and other experts about which laws, regulations or policies might apply to agentic hacks carried out by models at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Google and other companies. (Image via Getty) AI -
(Getty Images) Threats Kimwolf botnet rebuilt to survive takedowns, researchers say
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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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) leaves the U.S. Capitol on July 11. (Photo by Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images) Government Warner bill would create federally vetted list for secure, trustworthy AI agents
The bill empowers the FTC to create a registry for sellers of AI agent software certifying their privacy and cybersecurity protections.
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The headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on August 16, 2022, in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Government FBI takes down massive China-based cybercrime network that caused $1.9B in losses
Outsider provided phishing kits and infrastructure for cybercriminals to scam victims with lures claiming they missed packages, had unpaid tolls or parking violations.
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(Getty Images) Cybersecurity Inside the race to adapt to an AI-powered security world
AI is breaking things faster than anyone can fix them. Security leaders across the industry are racing to figure out what comes next.
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(Getty Images) Threats ‘Mini Shai-Hulud’ malware compromises hundreds of open-source packages in sprawling supply-chain attack
The campaign hit major registries and hid behind legitimate-looking release signatures, showing how attackers can weaponize the software update process itself.
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(Getty Images) Technology A college student is suing a dating app that allegedly used her TikTok videos to target men in her dormitory
The woman’s lawyer told CyberScoop they believe the company edited her video to suggest she was a “friend with benefits” and intentionally geofenced it to men around her.
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(Getty Images) Commentary Everyone’s building AI agents. Almost nobody’s ready for what they do to identity.
Anthropic recently announced that it would not release Mythos, its most powerful AI model, to the public. The model discovered thousands of previously unknown software vulnerabilities — flaws that had sat undetected in major operating systems and web browsers for as long as nearly three decades. Anthropic said the model was too dangerous to deploy […]
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Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia talks to the crowd at the Workday Federal Forum on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (Photo by Sergey Kolupaev/EPNAC) Government Federal CIO cautious on Anthropic’s Mythos despite planned rollout
Greg Barbaccia told CyberScoop that Anthropic’s Mythos shows real promise for federal cyber defense, but warns that laboratory results and live network conditions are two very different things.
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Flowers adorn a garden in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building on March 31, 2026. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images) Government The Supreme Court is about to decide how far geofence warrants can go
Chatrie v. United States asks whether a single warrant can justify a location-data dragnet — and what “probable cause” means when the search starts with basically everyone nearby.