Cyber Scoop

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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5 min read

• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
• encryption
• Government
• NIST
• post quantum cryptography
• Technology

CISA publishes a post-quantum shopping list for agencies. Security professionals aren’t sold

Cyber Scoop January 26, 2026

CISA publishes a post-quantum shopping list for agencies. Security...

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