Wild variances in naming taxonomies aren’t going away, but a new initiative from the security vendors aims to more publicly address obvious overlap in threat group attribution.
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The letter to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee leaders comes shortly before they consider his nomination.
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The domino effect of CVE disruption is something all cybersecurity practitioners must be aware of, a Morphisec executive argues.
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The 20-year bureau pro wants to see what it’s like to fight ransomware from the private sector.
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The fate of the fiscal 2026 budget blueprint, which includes a $495 million reduction for the agency, is uncertain.
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AVCheck and related crypting services helped cybercriminals make malware difficult to detect and confirm that malware could slip through various antivirus tools undetected, officials said.
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The 28-year-old, who’d been employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency since 2019, specialized in insider threats and had top secret security clearance, officials said.
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The lawmakers say the January purge has left the United States blind on the nature of the historic Salt Typhoon telecommunications breach.
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The defendants will increase reporting on spoofing, create a compliance team or AI and conduct regular training for staff on how to identify deceptive messages and the dangers of misinformation in U.S. elections.
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The Philippines-based company Funnull operated a large cybercrime platform encompassing more than 332,000 domains, the FBI said.
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The besieged security vendor maintains the latest exploited vulnerabilities in its products are entirely linked to unspecified security issues in open-source libraries. Some researchers aren’t buying it.
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Google Threat Intelligence Group said it developed means to counter the activity, which it linked to APT41.
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Sina Gholinejad pleaded guilty to two counts in a scheme that most visibly hit the city of Baltimore, causing $19 million in damages.
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The deal reflects a growing trend in cybersecurity toward consolidation and integration.
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A Vietnam-based group has spread thousands of advertisements, fake websites and social media posts promising access to popular prompt-to-video AI generation tools, delivering infostealers and backdoors instead.
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Laundry Bear, a group recently identified by Dutch intelligence and security services, stole work-related contact details on the Netherlands’ national police force in September 2024, Microsoft researchers said.
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Sens. Warner and Lankford reintroduced their VDP bill after a companion version passed the House in March.
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A coordinated effort took down seven kinds of malware and targeted initial access brokers.
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The successful break-up of DanaBot marks the second high-profile law enforcement disruption of a widespread malware operation in as many days.
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Chair Brendan Carr said the agency is exploring how to expand STIR/SHAKEN protocols to older legacy phone networks.
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