DOGE is a national cyberattack, DOGE violates fundamental cybersecurity risk management principles, How a crypto fraud fighter survived a Nigerian prison, Toledo is spying on its poor citizens, Affluent seniors in South Carolina were targeted in crypto scams
Italian spyware maker SIO makes malicious poseur apps, Zacks breach exposed 12m accounts, 2024 saw $12.4b in crypto scams, Newly renamed AI Security Institute emerges in UK, China's Emperor Dragonfly uses spy tools in ransomware attacks, DOGE lawsuits continue to fly, much more
Microsoft says Sandworm team is targeting English-speaking Western nations, Trump swapped Russian cybercrim for US teacher, DOGE staffer given accidental edit authority at Treasury, TikTok unofficial downloads surge in US, Spyware maker Variston shut down, Kimsuky poses as Korean official, much more
Sean Cairncross is cyber director nominee, DOGE hit by lawsuit for violating Privacy Act, Teen swatter sentenced to four years, Woman behind DPRK worker scheme pleads guilty, Top Italian businessmen targeted in AI voice scam, Sandworm targets Ukraine Windows users, ZkLend hacked for $9m, much more
Cops took down 8base gang's website, Authorities bust four Sky ECC distributors, NY State bans DeepSeek on gov't devices, SEC X hacker pleads guilty, NSA missions are hampered by DEI banned words, CISA election security workers placed on leave, Libyan activist targeted with spyware, much more
Judge pauses Musk's access to Treasury Dept., DOGE team member made deep cybersecurity cuts at Citrix Systems, TikTok CEO pitches JV to White House, Newspaper chain Lee Enterprises disrupted by cyber incident, DeepSeek riddled with security and privacy risks, RCE in Marvel Rivals found, much more
How Citizen Lab began tracking spyware, How Indians are becoming cyber-scam targets, How Pavel Durov got caught off-guard, How schools downplay and hide cyberattacks, How Musk is violating the Privacy Act of 1974
DOGE worker had write access to US payment system, DOGE workers fan out through US agencies, CISA and NSA workers offered deferred resignations, US lawmakers plan to ban DeepSeek, UK Cyber Monitoring Centre launched, Japan moves on active cyber defense, Bondi disbands FBI task force, much more
Musk's "Big Balls" teen worker has a dubious background, Congress gets vocal about Musk's DOGE, DOGE wants to jettison Slack to dodge FOIA, S. Korea blocks DeepSeek, DeepSeek sends user data to China Mobile, Spanish cops bust prolific hacker, Blinken requested Ashkelon hacker extradition, much more
Fed CIOs will become political appointees, Trump tries to thin CIA's ranks, DeepSeek's R1 ranks lowest in cybersecurity, Oz bans DeepSeek from government offices, Thailand shuts power from scammer compounds, Unions sue Treasury for database plundering, Evans now CISA senior adviser, much more
US feds charge Canadian man with stealing $65m in crypto, US AID was cryptojacked last year, Exploitable CVEs jumped 20% last year, Meta may withhold some AI systems, Anthropic finds new way to stop harmful content creation, 48 Android patches issued, GrubHub hit with data breach, much more
Spyware maker Paragon Solutions targeted 100 people on WhatsApp, Texas governor bans Chinese AI and social media apps, Researchers show DeepSeek's R1 produces toxic content, Anom sellers plead guilty, Keir Starmer's email was hacked by Russia, Wedding invites distributed malware, much more