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Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign targeting Brazilian users since the start of 2025 to infect users with a malicious extension for Chromium-based web browsers and siphon user authentication data
White House Limits Cyber Sanctions, Cuts Digital ID Mandates and Refocuses AI RulesPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that rewrites key cyber policies from the previous White House administration, removing digital ID mandates, mandating secure software standards and narrowing cyber sanctions to foreign actors.
Unsigned Order Overturns District Court InjunctionThe U.S. Supreme Court granted Friday a Trump administration cost-cutting effort known as the "Department of Government Efficiency" access to data on Americans held at the Social Security Administration. Two liberal justices accused their conservative colleagues of a double standard.
Analysis of Proposed Budget, Workforce Cuts Reveal Risks to Cyber ReadinessThe Trump administration’s 2026 budget proposal would eliminate over 1,000 positions and nearly $425 million from CISA, gutting cyber ops, risk modeling and election security - prompting warnings that the U.S. is weakening its national cyber defense amid rising global threats.
U.S. tax resolution firm Optima Tax Relief suffered a Chaos ransomware attack, with the threat actors now leaking data stolen from the company. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers are alerting to a new malware campaign that employs the ClickFix social engineering tactic to trick users into downloading an information stealer malware known as Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS) on Apple macOS systems
Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of Ukrainian Internet address space are now in the hands of proxy and anonymity services nested at some of America's largest Internet service providers (ISPs).
Paula Stannard Has Deep HHS Regulatory and Legal RootsThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has named Paula Stannard to lead its HIPAA enforcement agency - the Office for Civil Rights. Stannard was a legal counsel at HHS under two previous Republican presidential administrations. She also has state and private sector legal experience.
Also, Crypter Takedown, Threat Intel Naming Accord and Regulators Ping CrowdStrikeThis week, Ukraine hacked Tupelov, Russian hacking, crypter sites seized and the U.S. will seize North Korean IT worker crypto. Regulators probed CrowdStrike. A Rosetta Stone for intel. A Romanian man admitted to swatting, Lee Enterprises hack exposed data and an FBI vet joined the private sector.
Also: Criminal Charges in France Against Suspected Crypto Millionaire KidnappersThis week, U.S. SEC dropped its civil case against Binance, Zhao; France charged 25 in crypto kidnap plot; Hackers stole $3 million in Force Bridge exploit. A Singapore court rejected Wazirx restructuring plan, and BitMEX thwarted a Lazarus Group hacking attempt.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of cryptocurrency funds and about 145 clearnet and dark web domains associated with an illicit carding marketplace called BidenCash
The U.S. Department of State has announced a reward of up to $10 million for any information on government-sponsored hackers with ties to the RedLine infostealer malware operation and its suspected creator, Russian national Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov. [...]
The authors who claimed America hacked itself to discredit Beijing are back with another report Beijing complains it’s under relentless attack by the equivalent of an ant trying to shake a tree China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center on Thursday published a report in which it claims Taiwan targeted it with a years-long but feeble cyber offensive, backed by the USA.…
Top Trump Official Touts Enforcement Wins as Firms Warn China Is Gaining GroundDespite pushback from tech leaders like Nvidia, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Congress that expanded export controls, seizures and arrests are safeguarding U.S. innovation, as the Trump administration scraps Biden-era AI policies and targets Chinese access to chips.
BidenCash Was Notorious for Posting Free Tranches of Stolen Card DataAn online carder marketplace with a flair for publicity is now offline following a U.S. and Dutch law enforcement seizure. The site, BidenCash, began operations in March 2022, growing to 117,000 customers who facilitated the trafficking of more than 15 million payment card numbers.
Web-to-App Pipeline Uses Meta Pixel and Yandex MetricaAmerican social media giant Meta and Russian counterpart Yandex each found methods to break through privacy protections enabled by Android users, say academics in newly disclosed research. A Meta spokesperson in a prepared statement said it stopped the tracking "upon becoming aware of the concerns."
CISA is alerting federal agencies in the U.S. of hackers exploiting a recently patched ScreenConnect vulnerability that could lead to executing remote code on the server. [...]
A growing number of malicious campaigns have leveraged a recently discovered Android banking trojan called Crocodilus to target users in Europe and South America
Documents Provide Some Details for Cyber, HIPAA, Other UnitsThe Trump administration's fiscal 2026 budget-in-brief for the U.S. Department of Health and Services cuts deeply into some agencies including the National Institutes of Health, but calls for continued Security and HIPAA regulatory enforcement actions under a consolidated watchdog organization.
American cybersecurity company SentinelOne revealed over the weekend that a software flaw triggered a seven-hour-long outage on Thursday. [...]