Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Military forces are under increasing pressure to field autonomous capabilities faster than ever before. Across the U.S., UK, and NATO, new investment, evolving defense strategies, and accelerated acquisition pathways are transforming how capability is delivered, rewarding programs that can move from concept to operational deployment at commercial speed

The U.S. offers up to $10M for information on Russian hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp accounts of officials and journalists. The U.S. government is offering rewards of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of members of the Russian-linked groups UNC5792 and UNC4221. The hackers target government officials, military personnel, journalists, and […]

The U.S. Department of State is offering up to $10 million for information that helps identify or locate members of the UNC5792 and UNC4221 hacker groups, which are linked to Russia's intelligence and military services. [...]

Ukraine’s SSU and the FBI Just Confirmed Russian Intelligence Has Been Systematically Hacking Messenger Accounts for Years. The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), working jointly with the FBI, has formally exposed a sustained Russian intelligence campaign targeting the messaging accounts of government officials, military personnel, politicians, and activists across Ukraine, Europe, and the United States. […]

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said it, together with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), uncovered a long-running campaign orchestrated by Russian intelligence services to break into the messaging accounts of government officials, military personnel, politicians, and activists in Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S

Vital Service Providers Need a Plan to Work Through Internet Outages, CISA SaysCritical U.S. infrastructure like water, power and even banking systems will be successfully hacked by enemy cyber warriors in the event of a military confrontation with a peer adversary like Russia or China, officials from the nation's civilian cyber defense agency said.

China’s UNC6508 hid in North American medical research networks for 2 years, stealing credentials and forwarding emails to Gmail Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published a report this week on UNC6508, a China-linked cyberespionage group that breached North American medical and military research organizations and stayed hidden for more than two years. The earliest confirmed intrusion […]

A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense email

JDY botnet scans SOHO/IoT devices globally to map services and targets, especially US military networks. Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs reported the resurgence of the JDY botnet, a covert reconnaissance network tied to Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups including Volt Typhoon. The network was first spotted in late 2023 as a cluster inside KV-botnet. The U.S. government […]

The JDY botnet, a malware network previously associated with Chinese threat actors like Volt Typhoon, has significantly expanded its targeting scope and reconnaissance efforts. [...]

Directs Agencies to Expand Commercial Access, Recruit Non-Gov ExpertsThe Trump administration's directed the military and intelligence agencies Friday to accelerate advanced artificial intelligence adoption while reducing barriers to deployment. It blames "undue bureaucracy" for a slower-than-desired pace of uptake.

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore (aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East following the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the country in late February 2026

Appeals Court Weighs Pentagon Authority Over Frontier AI ProvidersA majority of judges on a U.S. federal appeals court appeared disposed to allowing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to bar Anthropic from future military work for posing national security risk. Oral argument held Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was Anthropic's latest salvo.

Reports: Trump Administration Approval of Nvidia H200 Sales Poses Frontier AI RisksTrump administration discussions on AI governance with China are colliding with reports that Washington may permit expanded Nvidia H200 chip sales to Chinese firms, fueling concerns that U.S. technology access could accelerate Beijing's frontier AI and military-linked ambitions.

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.

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

'We've Yet to Find Any Mission That Can Work Without Power or Water'The Air Force is the first, and so far only, American military service to have an office dedicated to OT cybersecurity, blazing a path other services should follow, according to officials and industry observers. These are systems without which the United States can't go to war.

Officials Aim to Head Off Calls for New Cyber Force Using Existing CyberCom PowersFor the private sector, the cyber talent gap is an HR issue. But for the U.S. military, it's a looming strategic crisis, the Pentagon's top cyber official said this week. "We cannot afford to continue this way," said Assistant Secretary of War for Cyber Policy Katherine Sutton.

A systemic numbness to cyberattacks has exposed the U.S. economy and its institutions to ever-widening threats. Retired four-star military officials worry the worst day in cyber is yet to come. The post Former NSA chiefs worry American offensive edge in cybersecurity is slipping appeared first on CyberScoop.

Separately, Iran Tied to IP Camera Hacks for Targeting and Battle Damage AssessmentU.S. military cyber operations underpinned the first part of the country's joint strike with Israel against Iran on Saturday. Since then, experts see signs of at least low-level cyber operations to support intelligence-gathering for kinetic attack targeting.