Despite multiple takedowns, botnets continue to grow
Roughly 1 in 4 of those compromised IPs are based in the United States, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs said. Botnets like IPIDEA have also rebounded quickly, surpa...
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Microsoft, tech companies throw weight behind spread of open-source AI
Other signatories of the letter include Meta, Palantir, Perplexity, Mistral, NVIDIA, Mozilla, The Linux Foundation, Hugging Face, Dell Technologies and IBM. ...
Rubio restricts visas for sextortionists, cyber scammers
The move stems from a Trump executive order as the administration continues to pursue cyber-enabled fraud and other crimes. The post Rubio restricts visas fo...
Russian espionage group using novel Zimbra exploit to steal sensitive data from Western countries
Laundry Bear exploited a zero-day vulnerability for five months before it was patched in July 2025, and the group is still actively exploiting vulnerable env...
ANCHOR-CI could fix 20 years of broken government-industry collaboration
The government spent the past two decades learning what private sector partners have always known: cyber resilience requires everyone in the room. ANCHOR-CI ...
Most federal cybersecurity reporting rules are duplicative, study finds
The Government Accountability Office looked at 117 rules across 37 agencies and found 70% had reporting requirements that were overlapping. The post Most fed...
Malware is targeting AI tools in software development environments
The worm blends in with thousands of other commands occurring daily in any given environment, yet its intent and origins remain unknown. The post Malware is ...
White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable
While distillation attacks by foreign governments and companies have real national security implications, questions around who ultimately owns the data in AI...
OpenAI says model test was behind Hugging Face hack
At the time, Hugging Face said it wasn’t clear which LLM was used in the attack. OpenAI confirmed it was one of their models being tested for “maximal” cyber...
AI models keep getting caught cheating
New research from the UK shows how nearly every model tested tried to cheat, scam or cut corners on its way to solving problems. The post AI models keep gett...
Where’s the Trump administration line on AI regulation?
The messy approach to U.S.
House intel bill includes provisions on state and local threat intelligence, election security, AI
The House Intelligence Committee advanced its fiscal 2027 authorization legislation Monday. The post House intel bill includes provisions on state and local ...
North Korea’s IT worker scheme funds Russia’s war effort
DTEX researchers found a series of transactions in a payment wallet showing North Korean IT worker salaries flowing into sanctioned entities that support the...
What the World Cup can teach us about cybersecurity resilience
Future major events can’t rely on yesterday's playbook. Lessons from the World Cup show why true cyber resilience starts months before kickoff and extends fa...