Month: December 2025

6 min read

• AI
• Anthropic
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• China
• Claude
• Congress
• Cybersecurity
• Government
• House Homeland Security Committee
• Technology

Policymakers grapple with fallout from Chinese AI-enabled hack

Cyber Scoop December 18, 2025

Policymakers grapple with fallout from Chinese AI-enabled hack |...

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3 min read

• apt
• China
• Cisco
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Rapid7
• Research
• Threats
• Trend Micro
• Zero Day Initiative
• Zero-day
• zero-days

Cisco customers hit by fresh wave of zero-day attacks from China-linked APT

Cyber Scoop December 18, 2025

Cisco customers hit by fresh wave of zero-day attacks...

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3 min read

• AI
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• Congress
• Cybersecurity
• deepfakes
• Government
• legal
• Take It Down Act
• U.S. courts

U.S. Sentencing Commission seeks input on criminal penalties for deepfakes

Cyber Scoop December 18, 2025

U.S. Sentencing Commission seeks input on criminal penalties for...

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3 min read

• Alibaba
• Biden administration
• China
• Congress
• Department of Defense (DOD)
• Executive order
• Geopolitics
• Government
• Huawei
• National Cyber Director
• open source
• Pete Hegseth
• Policy
• Russia
• Sean Cairncross
• Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party
• Senate Intelligence Committee
• Technology
• tom cotton
• Trump administration
• XZ Utils

Senate Intel chair urges national cyber director to safeguard against open-source software threats

Cyber Scoop December 18, 2025

Senate Intel chair urges national cyber director to safeguard...

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4 min read

• CISA
• Cloudflare
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Google Threat Intelligence Group
• greynoise
• Microsoft Threat Intelligence
• nation state threats
• Palo Alto Networks
• ransomware
• React2Shell
• Research
• Threats
• Unit 42
• VulnCheck

React2Shell fallout spreads to sensitive targets as public exploits hit all-time high

Cyber Scoop December 17, 2025

React2Shell fallout spreads to sensitive targets as public exploits...

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3 min read

• crypto mixer
• cybercrime
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• E-note
• Government
• ransomware
• Threats
• Uncategorized

DOJ announces takedown of alleged laundering platform used by cybercriminal groups

Cyber Scoop December 17, 2025

DOJ announces takedown of alleged laundering platform used by...

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4 min read

• cryptocurrency
• Cybersecurity
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Government
• regulators

Illusory Systems settles with FTC over 2022 cryptocurrency hack

Cyber Scoop December 16, 2025

Illusory Systems settles with FTC over 2022 cryptocurrency hack...

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4 min read

• Uncategorized

Outgoing GAO chief warns of ‘taking our foot off the gas’ at CISA

Cyber Scoop December 16, 2025

Outgoing GAO chief warns of ‘taking our foot off...

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4 min read

• Andrew Garbarino
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• China
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act
• Federal Communications Commission
• House Homeland Security Committee
• information sharing
• McCrary Institute
• PIVOTT Act
• Policy
• rand paul
• Salt Typhoon
• Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
• Sheri Biggs
• Telecommunications
• workforce

Key lawmaker says Congress likely to kick can down road on cyber information sharing law

Cyber Scoop December 16, 2025

Key lawmaker says Congress likely to kick can down...

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3 min read

• Amazon Threat Intelligence
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• APT44
• critical infrastructure
• Cybersecurity
• energy
• exploit
• Geopolitics
• GRU
• managed service providers
• network edge devices
• Research
• routers
• Russia
• Sandworm
• source code
• Telecommunications
• Threats
• virtual private network (VPN)
• vulnerability
• WatchGuard

Amazon warns that Russia’s Sandworm has shifted its tactics

Cyber Scoop December 16, 2025

Amazon warns that Russia’s Sandworm has shifted its tactics...

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