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Top Democrat Warns States Are Losing Federal Cyber Defense SupportA top U.S, Senate Democrat decried shrinking federal support for election security ahead of the November midterms, warning that cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency could leave states without cyber defense or threat intelligence capabilities
CISA has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their networks against a high-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) exploited in zero-day attacks. [...]
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service's login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and faculty across nearly 9,000 educational institutions.
Pentagon Expands Frontier AI Providers Amid Anthropic Legal FightThe Pentagon said it will no longer depend on a single artificial intelligence provider as the White House pushes agencies to diversify frontier AI systems amid an escalating legal and policy fight with Anthropic over military use of advanced models.
Also: TrustedVolumes, Wasabi Protocol and Ekubo HacksThis week, Bitcoin Core revealed a memory safety flaw, hackers exploited TrustedVolumes, Wasabi Protocol and Ekubo, Bithumb suspension paused, sentencing in U.S. theft case, prosecutors seek 20-year sentence for Delio CEO and North Korea denied that it's a thief.
The men’s separate schemes impacted almost 70 U.S. companies and generated a combined $1.2 million in revenue for the North Korean regime. The post American duo sentenced for hosting laptop farms for North Korean IT workers appeared first on CyberScoop.
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison each for operating so-called laptop farms that helped North Korean IT workers fraudulently obtain remote employment at nearly 70 American companies. [...]
ARPA-H Program Aims to Speed Up Disease Breakthroughs Using AI-Enabled EcosystemBiomedical research breakthroughs for complex diseases and chronic illnesses can take years to achieve. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is hoping to speed that up ten-fold by creating an artificial intelligence-enabled interoperable research ecosystem.
A sophisticated China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to attacks targeting government entities in South America since at least late 2024 and government agencies in southeastern Europe in 2025
A Latvian national extradited to the United States was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for his "cold case" negotiator role in the Russian Karakurt ransomware group. [...]
An active phishing campaign has been observed targeting multiple vectors since at least April 2025 with legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software as a way to establish persistent remote access to compromised hosts
A previously unknown threat actor has been observed targeting government and military entities in Southeast Asia, alongside a smaller cluster of managed service providers (MSPs) and hosting providers in the Philippines, Laos, Canada, South Africa, and the U.S., by exploiting the recently disclosed vulnerability in cPanel
A coordinated international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities has arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine scam centers used for cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes targeting Americans, resulting in millions of dollars in losses