In all, the agency said it discovered more than 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards spread across multiple sites within 35 miles of New York.
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AT&T’s chief information security officer said attackers are going where traditional defenses are less commonly employed.
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Officials accused the teenage boy of working with Scattered Spider, which attacked MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment in 2023.
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Short-term and long-term extensions alike for the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act have fallen by the wayside despite industry and Trump administration advocacy.
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The NIST standards show that with one year of progress behind us, there are five years of opportunity ahead.
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The vendor didn’t provide evidence of active exploitation, yet experts said it’s only a matter of time before that changes.
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Multiple sources tell CyberScoop that options under consideration include executive orders or a national action plan, similar to the one the administration released for AI in July.
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Mark Gorak outlined that the department has seen a drop in the time it takes to hire, but much more work is needed.
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Mike Duffy said feds are looking at ways to use it even more for cybersecurity.
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One suspect faces separate charges in the United States linking him to at least 120 cyberattacks.
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The company confirmed to CyberScoop that an unidentified cybercriminal accessed SonicWall’s customer portal through a series of brute-force attacks.
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The company acted on a court order and collaborated with Cloudflare to seize RaccoonO365’s infrastructure, which was used to steal credentials from organizations in 94 countries.
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Conor Fitzpatrick had his initial sentence vacated for being too lenient.
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The contentious hearing focused on other subjects, but lawmakers still had cyber questions and accusations for the head of the bureau.
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The tech giant doesn’t provide details about the severity of vulnerabilities it discloses, but none of the new defects are under active attack.
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The acquisition comes during a flurry of larger cybersecurity firms looking to add AI security to their customer offerings.
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OpenAI and Anthropic said they turned over their models to government researchers, who found an array of previously undiscovered vulnerabilities and attack techniques.
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Commentary that downplays the compromise’s impact misses the point, the co-founder of Sonatype argues.
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A recent wave of attacks targeting SonicWall customers has researchers and authorities on alert. Many victim organizations had misconfigurations in their systems.
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CISA was paying employees without mission-critical cybersecurity backgrounds as part of a program for retaining cyber talent.
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