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Derrick Van Yeboah impersonated fake romantic partners and directly interacted with victims for more than nine years.

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Amazon's threat intelligence team traced domain records from the open-source software hack to a smaller, earlier compromise by the same North Korean group.

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Brad Blakestad, director of the National Quantum Coordination Office, also said encryption and measuring progress would pose challenges.

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Unknown attackers broke into 92 unique SonicWall user accounts with legitimate credentials, researchers said.

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The Hugging Face breach shows there is a gap in federal policy. The frameworks to govern autonomous AI already exist—there just needs to be the desire to apply them.

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Claude Mythos exposed mathematical weaknesses in a post-quantum candidate and a simplified version of AES, marking a major breakthrough for AI-driven cryptanalysis.

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A cyberattack of undetermined origin disrupted water treatment plants in at least 30 communities in Minnesota, according to the state's technology bureau.

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Analysis from vulnerability intelligence firm VulnCheck shows AI-discovered flaws aren't being exploited any faster than traditional ones.

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It includes the new agentic model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and the Project Perception platform, with the tech giant claiming it’ll do a better job than its rivals at half the cost.

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In a Monday filing, the Justice Department said states sued before agencies even decided how the order would work.

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APT-number conventions are out, cryptonyms are in, and security teams now have one more naming system to keep straight.

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In a letter first reported by CyberScoop, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said ‘devastating’ attacks on the federal government have accumulated due to the tech.

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The administration set a target date of September for CISA to finalize the rule, but where the agency is headed remains a mystery to some.

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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, surpassing their pre-disruption footprint.

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Other signatories of the letter include Meta, Palantir, Perplexity, Mistral, NVIDIA, Mozilla, The Linux Foundation, Hugging Face, Dell Technologies and IBM.

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The move stems from a Trump executive order as the administration continues to pursue cyber-enabled fraud and other crimes.

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Laundry Bear exploited a zero-day vulnerability for five months before it was patched in November 2025, and the group is still actively exploiting vulnerable environments.

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The government spent the past two decades learning what private sector partners have always known: cyber resilience requires everyone in the room. ANCHOR-CI is proof that the lessons may finally stick.

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