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Articles from cyberscoop.com

A look at the 25-year-old CVE program, which assigns unique IDs to flaws; 413 orgs now report CVEs, with 40K+ reported in 2024, pushing the total past 270K (cyberscoop.com)
9 days ago

Researchers say a Next.js flaw that existed for several years could've allowed hackers to bypass middleware-based authentication; Vercel patched it on March 18 (cyberscoop.com)
9 days ago

Flashpoint: 3.2B credentials were stolen from organizations in 2024, up 33% YoY, of which 2.1B were compromised using info-stealing malware infecting 23M hosts (cyberscoop.com)
15 days ago

Google Threat Intelligence: the US' adversaries, most notably Russia, are increasingly turning to cybercriminals and free malware to advance their goals (cyberscoop.com)
2025-2-13 Russia Google Intelligence

Experts say Donald Trump and others pushing for stronger US cyber offense must clarify if escalation is a proper response to recent Chinese cyber breaches (cyberscoop.com)
2025-1-15 Trump China

The US says it has identified a ninth telecom company impacted by the Salt Typhoon hacks, and the number of individuals directly impacted is “less than 100” (cyberscoop.com)
2024-12-28

US intelligence reports: online terrorist network 764 is using techniques normally used for financial crimes, such as SIM swapping, to commit child sextortion (cyberscoop.com)
2024-12-6 Terrorism Intelligence

The White House says the Salt Typhoon hack has impacted eight telecom firms in the US, with dozens of other countries also affected, for as long as two years (cyberscoop.com)
2024-12-5

CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers (cyberscoop.com)
2024-9-25

The US releases Russian cybercriminals Roman Seleznev and Vladislav Klyushin as part of a prisoner swap that freed 16 people from Russia (cyberscoop.com)
2024-8-2 Russia

A US judge dismisses most of a SEC lawsuit accusing SolarWinds of misleading investors by failing to disclose cybersecurity failures in its Orion software (cyberscoop.com)
2024-7-19

Boeing confirms that LockBit attempted to extort a $200M ransom in October 2023; the company reportedly didn't pay any ransom after ~43GB of its data was posted (cyberscoop.com)
2024-5-9 Boeing

Biden signs an EO to increase the cyber defenses of maritime ports via additional Coast Guard powers, invest $20B in infrastructure over five years, and more (cyberscoop.com)
2024-2-21

Ukrainian Vyacheslav Penchukov pleads guilty in the US for his role in the Zeus and IcedID malware groups, which stole millions from victims for over a decade (cyberscoop.com)
2024-2-16 Ukraine

Google's TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware (cyberscoop.com)
2024-2-6 Google

The US Treasury sanctions six Iranian government officials for their role in targeting devices at a Pennsylvania water utility in November 2023 (cyberscoop.com)
2024-2-3 Iran

Microsoft seizes US-based infrastructure and websites used by cybercrime group Storm-1152 that created ~750M fraudulent Microsoft accounts, after a court order (cyberscoop.com)
2023-12-14 Microsoft

US Senate confirms Harry Coker, a former National Security Agency executive director, as the next National Cyber Director, 10 months after Chris Inglis resigned (cyberscoop.com)
2023-12-13 Senate

Meta officials say the US stopped proactively sharing information on foreign influence operations, as the company releases its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report (cyberscoop.com)
2023-12-1

Detailed data on employees of U.S. national security lab leak online (cyberscoop.com)
2023-11-22 U.S.

Microsoft says Chinese state-affiliated hackers are using AI to generate content designed to “go viral across social networks in the US and other democracies” (cyberscoop.com)
2023-9-8 China Microsoft AI

Microsoft researchers say Flax Typhoon, a hacking group with suspected links to the Chinese government, is actively targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan (cyberscoop.com)
2023-8-25 China Taiwan Microsoft

How a hacking crew overtook a satellite from inside a Las Vegas convention center and won $50,000 (cyberscoop.com)
2023-8-17 Vegas

CEO of cyber risk management company Tenable says Microsoft issued a partial fix for a critical Azure issue that would enable attackers to access sensitive data (cyberscoop.com)
2023-8-3 Microsoft

Legislation preventing data broker sales to government agencies moves forward (cyberscoop.com)
2023-7-20

Genetic testing company 1health.io settles by paying $75K to the FTC for exposing sensitive health data, in the first FTC enforcement over genetic information (cyberscoop.com)
2023-6-17

The US says the FBI was able to disrupt a long-running Russian cyber espionage operation by inspecting FSB-linked Snake malware and decoding its communications (cyberscoop.com)
2023-5-10 Russia FBI

A group of operational technology cybersecurity vendors launches ETHOS, an open-source portal to share early warnings about threats to critical infrastructure (cyberscoop.com)
2023-4-25

Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers' work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel (cyberscoop.com)
2023-4-14 Google Intel Hacker

The Biden administration issues a national cybersecurity strategy, seeking to impose minimum standards, shift responsibility to larger software makers, and more (cyberscoop.com)
2023-3-6

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