CISA to transform how it assesses cyber vulnerabilities and risks, Andersen says
A binding operational directive being released Wednesday will direct federal agencies to change the way they address vulnerabilities by elevating some while ...
The Record
20 articles
Hackers pose as women seeking romance to spy on Russian soldiers
The group, dubbed SiribClone by Russian cybersecurity firm F6, has been active since at least the summer of 2025 and has primarily targeted members of the Ru...
UK gives big tech 3 months to create device controls to block nude images of kids
The companies “must activate built-in features or implement technical solutions on smartphones and tablets to detect and block nude images for children,” acc...
Armenia’s pro-Europe party wins election despite Russia-linked disinformation
Pashinyan's Civil Contract party won nearly 50% of Sunday's vote, defeating the pro-Russian Strong Armenia party led by Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel K...
WhatsApp says NSO targeted users with spearfishing attacks in violation of court order
WhatsApp said it is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent injunction that bars it from mounting attacks against its users.
Russia upgrades rules for its digital spy system to better track citizens online
New regulations published by Russia's Ministry of Digital Development at the end of May updated the technical standards governing SORM, formally known as the...
EU unveils tech sovereignty package to cut reliance on US, Chinese suppliers
The package bundles two draft laws — a Chips Act 2.0 and a Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) — alongside an Open Source Strategy and a roadmap for digitali...
Apple removes Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max from its store
Russian authorities have promoted Max as a domestic alternative to foreign messaging platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp.
Trump considers Palantir exec to lead CISA
Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, has emerged as a lead contender for the long vacant Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Sec...
FTC considers setting aside or modifying $150 million privacy penalty against X
Twitter, renamed X in 2023, filed a petition saying that the settlement terms are unfair because the order was issued against a company that “no longer exist...
Russia seeks to label two anti-Kremlin hacker groups as ‘extremist’
The groups have previously claimed responsibility for cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure and government institutions in Russia and Belarus.
Supreme Court rules FCC fines punishing telecom giants for sharing location data were legal
The Trump administration had backed the FCC’s position and, apart from Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court agreed.
CISA directive for AI executive order to be released this week, Andersen says
The binding operational directive will focus in part on “vulnerability alleviation and vulnerability management,” Andersen said in remarks delivered at the T...
UN food agency investigates breach exposing data of Gaza aid recipients
In a message sent to aid recipients via Telegram over the weekend, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that "unauthorized parties" had accessed data stored i...
Researcher publishes GitHub token-stealing exploit, blames Microsoft’s disclosure process
The security researcher, Ammar Askar, released the new proof-of-concept exploit on his personal blog — alongside the public tracker for issues in VS Code — g...
Five Eyes warn Chinese spies are using job sites to recruit insiders
The alert warned that Chinese intelligence officers are posing as recruiters and consultants for front companies based outside China in order to target Five ...
DHS chief signals efforts to reshape CISA
In his first appearance before the panel since being confirmed in March, Mullin said that CISA probably needs “somewhere around” 2,800 employees, despite its...
New cyber force would cost up to $11 billion to start, commission says
The military branch would take 12 to 18 months to get up and running and also include roughly 5,000 members of the National Guard and up to 6,000 civilians, ...
White House unveils pared-back AI executive order
The order notes that federal access to the models should be subject to “appropriate confidentiality, cybersecurity, insider-risk, and intellectual-property p...
Russia claims foreign spy agencies hacked officials' phones
In a statement, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had uncovered what it described as a "large-scale operation" involving malicious software ins...