The agency also booted 14 phone service providers from U.S. networks for violating existing robocalling regulations.
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Sality’s peer-to-peer infrastructure allowed it to evade system-wide disruption efforts for an exceptionally long period. Authorities and cybersecurity experts finally brought it down.
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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 surveillance in Serbia yet.
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it’s the latest in a sequence of letters to feds from Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on commercial VPNs.
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The ongoing social engineering threat, which dates back to late 2025, tricks victims into granting threat actors long-term access to their accounts.
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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 discontinued.
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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 ballots or more to states.
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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 them endorse under its own logo: coverage, containment speed, and whether fixes work.
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The major healthcare sector vendor did not identify the attackers, but ShinyHunters, a prolific group increasingly targeting the sector, claimed responsibility.
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The six-month program will be overseen by the Office of the National Cyber Director and Texas Cyber Command to “find out what works.”
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Mandating ‘kill switches’ for AI agents would threaten the security of America’s critical infrastructure and undercut U.S. AI leadership. Congress must reject the AI Kill Switch Act.
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The prolific ransomware group Qilin claimed responsibility for the attack. ATF insists the incident was limited to a standalone system and hasn’t impacted critical operations.
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Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team said the early waves of threats riding on agentic AI models have broken in the wild, and organizations are unprepared for what’s coming next.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others say there’s a narrow “defenders’ window” to strengthen security before AI-powered attacks become more sophisticated.
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Elon Musk claimed he was aware of “literally zero” CSAM content created through Grok. A new lawsuit from thousands of real victims say the model was trained on their child abuse.
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The two men face 14 charges combined. Private researchers traced one suspect through leaked passwords and a decade-old gaming profile.
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The order says any foreign-produced equipment deemed to pose national security risks can’t be purchased or installed.
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The full hacking suite, seized by authorities, allowed Chinese government funded attackers to intrude highly sensitive networks undetected for more than eight years.
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The company says the breach stemmed from a systemic failure of alignment and security, and has taken measures to prevent agents from independently orchestrating complex cyberattacks.
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The communications product company disclosed 22 total Wednesday, all but one of which was rated “critical” at 9.0 or higher.
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