Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models
A joint advisory alleges Chinese companies are using sophisticated systems to route millions of data requests to US AI models across different accounts and p...
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Russian national extradited to US for alleged involvement in bank-account takeover scheme
Authorities accuse the 36-year-old and co-conspirators of collecting more than 5,000 victim login credentials to various banks. The post Russian national ext...
CIA’s Michael Ellis says cyber intelligence is changing how the agency operates
The deputy director cited Operation Absolute Resolve as evidence that cyber teams have become central to CIA missions. The post CIA’s Michael Ellis says cybe...
Why federal cyber defense demands an offense-driven mindset
Static checklists and annual penetration tests leave agencies with dangerous blind spots. True resilience requires moving from reactive attestation to contin...
In most cities, nobody owns the whole network
July’s intrusions reached water controllers that sat on a cellular link no city network scan would find. Naming an owner and paying for the fix are decisions...
European parliament members call for slowdown of Serbia’s EU entry over spyware use
The letter follows revelations about Serbian student activists being infected with Pegasus and NoviSpy, and coincides with other pressures on Belgrade. The p...
Why judgment is emerging as cybersecurity’s defining skill
AI is getting better at much of what security teams have long spent time on: analyzing information, identifying patterns, and providing technically sound rec...
Attackers exploit zero-days in consistently besieged SonicWall product
SonicWall customers have confronted a barrage of attacks for years, including five actively exploited vulnerabilities in SMA 1000 appliances since late 2025....
The G7 tells industry to hurry up and prep for post-quantum encryption
The nations warn that governments and industry can no longer treat quantum codebreaking as a distant or theoretical possibility. The post The G7 tells indust...
Jail time for Maine child in 764 marks turning point in federal law enforcement
Researcher tracking 764 said the first-of-its-kind case has a wider impact that will cause ripples across the landscape of violent extremist crime. The post ...
The FCC wants consumers to rate their telecom’s anti-robocall protections
The agency also booted 14 phone service providers from U.S.
Dogged Russia-based botnet dismantled after 23-year run
Sality’s peer-to-peer infrastructure allowed it to evade system-wide disruption efforts for an exceptionally long period. Authorities and cybersecurity exper...
Pegasus, NoviSpy variant spyware found on devices of Serbian activists
It’s the first Pegasus infection of 2026 that Citizen Lab is forensically confirming, and the SHARE Foundation said it’s the biggest wave of spyware surveill...
Wyden seeks upgraded NSA security guidance on commercial VPN use
it’s the latest in a sequence of letters to feds from Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
FBI raises alarm over deceptive phishing campaign targeting prominent people
The ongoing social engineering threat, which dates back to late 2025, tricks victims into granting threat actors long-term access to their accounts. The post...
Tina Peters, through attorney, backs off formal role in Shasta County elections
Peters still left the door open to working with Shasta County on elections and doubled down on her statements that electronic voting machines should be disco...
Whistleblower says USPS deploying new, ‘untested’ IT systems governing mail-in ballots
The Federal Ballot Mail Portal is described by a federal official as one of several IT systems that will be used to potentially deny thousands of mail-in bal...
The Collective Cyber Defense letter wrote your next vendor questionnaire
More than 200 companies have now signed to an August 27 letter about improving cyber defenses in the age of AI. Buried in it are three metrics every one of t...
McKesson copes with fallout from data theft extortion attack
The major healthcare sector vendor did not identify the attackers, but ShinyHunters, a prolific group increasingly targeting the sector, claimed responsibili...
‘Watershed 250’ test program in Texas looks to private sector for water cybersecurity help
The six-month program will be overseen by the Office of the National Cyber Director and Texas Cyber Command to “find out what works.” The post ‘Watershed 250...