Cyber Scoop

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• AI
• AI Action Plan
• Alexandra Seymour
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• Commerce Department
• cybersecurity strategy
• Federal IT
• Geopolitics
• international
• National Cyber Director
• Policy
• State Department
• United Nations

US wants to push its view of AI cybersecurity standards to the rest of the world

Cyber Scoop January 29, 2026

US wants to push its view of AI cybersecurity...

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7 min read

• disinformation
• election security
• Government
• National Association of Secretaries of State
• SAVE database
• Trump administration
• voter fraud

Lawmakers, election officials blast Trump administration after Fulton County raid 

Cyber Scoop January 29, 2026

Trump admin faces backlash over Georgia election office seizure...

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3 min read

• CrowdStrike
• crypto crime
• cryptocurrency
• cyber espionage
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• espionage
• Labyrinth Chollima
• Lazarus Group
• North Korea
• Research
• Threats

Long-running North Korea threat group splits into 3 distinct operations

Cyber Scoop January 29, 2026

Long-running North Korea threat group splits into 3 distinct...

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5 min read

• Arctic Wolf
• Coalition
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• firewall
• firewalls
• Fortinet
• known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV)
• network edge devices
• Threats
• watchTowr

Fortinet’s latest zero-day vulnerability carries frustrating familiarities for customers

Cyber Scoop January 28, 2026

Fortinet’s latest zero-day vulnerability carries frustrating familiarities for customers...

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4 min read

• Biden administration
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Chris Coons
• Chuck Grassley
• Congress
• Department of Defense (DOD)
• Dick Durbin
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• FISA
• Justice Department
• Kash Patel
• National Security Agency (NSA)
• Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
• Pam Bondi
• Policy
• Privacy
• Section 702
• Senate Judiciary Committee
• surveillance
• Trump administration
• tulsi gabbard

Lawmakers wonder when Trump administration will weigh on soon-expired surveillance powers

Cyber Scoop January 28, 2026

Senate judiciary presses for answers ahead of FISA deadline...

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6 min read

• AI
• class-action lawsuit
• Cybersecurity
• deepfakes
• Elon Musk
• Geopolitics
• Government
• Grok
• Privacy
• social media
• XAi

Undressed victims file class action lawsuit against xAI for Grok deepfakes

Cyber Scoop January 28, 2026

Undressed victims file class action lawsuit against xAI for...

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4 min read

• bitlocker
• Commentary
• data sovereignty
• Microsoft
• op-ed
• virtru

If you don’t control your keys, you don’t control your data

Cyber Scoop January 28, 2026

If you don’t control your keys, you don’t control...

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3 min read

• China
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Google
• Google Threat Intelligence Group
• hacking
• n-day
• nation state threats
• nation-state hackers
• Research
• Russia
• Threats
• vulnerability
• WinRAR

Cybercriminals and nation-state groups are exploiting a six-month old WinRAR defect

Cyber Scoop January 27, 2026

Cybercriminals and nation-state groups are exploiting a six-month old...

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2 min read

• Access Now
• Apple
• Google
• Meta
• NSO Group
• Privacy
• spyware
• Technology
• WhatsApp

WhatsApp releases account feature that looks to combat spyware

Cyber Scoop January 27, 2026

WhatsApp’s new ‘Strict Account Settings’ Adds Lockdown-Style Protection Against...

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4 min read

• Fortra
• LevelBlue
• managed detection and response
• mergers and acquisitions
• Money

LevelBlue scoops up Alert Logic’s managed services from Fortra

Cyber Scoop January 27, 2026

LevelBlue acquires Fortra’s Alert Logic managed services to scale...

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