Cyber Scoop

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Why blocking AI models won’t stop the cyber threats they create

Cyber Scoop July 20, 2026

Why blocking AI models won’t stop the cyber threats...

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• China
• Cybersecurity
• disinformation
• Election 2024
• election denial
• election hacking
• election security
• Government
• Policy
• propaganda
• Trump administration
• voter data
• voter fraud
• voting machines

State officials, election experts pan Trump speech: ‘This is what desperation looks like’

Cyber Scoop July 17, 2026

State officials, election experts pan Trump speech: ‘This is...

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• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• extortion
• FBI
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• guilty
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• Research
• Scattered Spider
• The Com
• UK

Leading members of Scattered Spider sentenced in UK to 66 months in jail

Cyber Scoop July 17, 2026

Leading members of Scattered Spider sentenced in UK to...

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• budget
• Government
• Government Accountability Office
• Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
• Trump administration
• workforce

Program to rotate cyber personnel through federal agencies saw little use

Cyber Scoop July 16, 2026

Program to rotate cyber personnel through federal agencies saw...

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• bulletproof hosting
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Geopolitics
• indictment
• ransomware
• Russia
• sanctions
• Threats
• Treasury Department

Russian trio indicted for allegedly running bulletproof hosting providers that spurred cybercrime

Cyber Scoop July 16, 2026

Russian trio indicted for allegedly running bulletproof hosting providers...

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• Certo Software
• Chrome
• cyberstalking
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Google
• Google Chrome
• Privacy
• Research
• spyware

Security researchers find stalkers abusing Chrome’s sync feature

Cyber Scoop July 15, 2026

How stalkers are exploiting Google Chrome sync to spy...

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• CISA
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV)
• Rapid7
• Research
• SonicWall
• Threats
• VulnCheck
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability
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• watchTowr
• Zero-day
• zero-day exploit
• zero-days

SonicWall customers under threat as attackers exploit 2 zero-days

Cyber Scoop July 15, 2026

SonicWall customers under threat as attackers exploit 2 zero-days...

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• Angus King
• Bill Pulte
• Director of National Intelligence
• election security
• FISA
• Government
• jay clayton
• Kirsten Gillibrand
• Mark Kelly
• Mark Warner
• Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
• Section 702
• Senate Intelligence Committee
• tom cotton
• tulsi gabbard

Dems press DNI nominee Jay Clayton on election security questions, but leave dismayed

Cyber Scoop July 15, 2026

Jay Clayton pressed on 2020 election at DNI nomination...

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• artificial intelligence (AI)
• Cato Networks
• ChatGPT
• Exclusive
• Kali Linux
• large language models
• Proofpoint
• Tenable

Forget the model. When it comes to cybersecurity, it’s all about the harness

Cyber Scoop July 15, 2026

Why AI ‘harnesses’ matter more than frontier LLMs for...

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• AI
• AI clearinghouse
• AI cybersecurity
• AI executive order
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• CISA
• critical infrastructure
• Cybersecurity
• Government
• Policy
• Technology
• Treasury Department
• Trump administration

White House details ‘Gold Eagle’ clearinghouse for AI cyber threats

Cyber Scoop July 14, 2026

Trump administration launches ‘Gold Eagle’ AI cyberthreat clearinghouse |...

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