Cyber Scoop

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• Austria
• Black Lotus Labs
• botnet
• Bulgaria
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Eurojust
• Europol
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• France
• germany
• Government
• Hungary
• Lumen Technologies
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• modems
• proxy network
• proxy services
• Research
• residential proxy network
• Romania
• Shadowserver
• SocksEscort
• The Netherlands
• Threats

Authorities takedown global proxy network SocksEscort

Cyber Scoop March 12, 2026

Authorities takedown global proxy network SocksEscort | CyberScoop Skip...

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4 min read

• cyber espionage
• Cybersecurity
• Government
• Policy
• Salt Typhoon
• Telecommunications
• Uncategorized

Officials worry Salt Typhoon apathy is killing momentum for tougher telecom security rules

Cyber Scoop March 12, 2026

Officials worry Salt Typhoon apathy is killing momentum for...

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5 min read

• ALPHV
• BlackCat
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• DigitalMint
• incident response
• Justice Department
• ransomware
• ransomware negotiation
• ransomware payments
• Threats

Feds say another DigitalMint negotiator ran ransomware attacks and extorted $75 million

Cyber Scoop March 12, 2026

Feds say another DigitalMint negotiator ran ransomware attacks and...

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3 min read

• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• identity
• Mandiant
• Salesforce
• ShinyHunters
• Threats

Salesforce issues new security alert tied to third customer attack spree in six months

Cyber Scoop March 11, 2026

Salesforce issues new security alert tied to third customer...

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4 min read

• Commentary
• compliance
• cybercrime
• Executive order
• office of management and budget
• op-ed
• phishing
• ransomware
• SBOM
• secure-by-design
• Sextortion
• software security
• supply chain

If consequences matter, they should apply to vendors, too

Cyber Scoop March 11, 2026

If consequences matter, they should apply to vendors, too...

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• Action1
• Cybersecurity
• Microsoft
• Patch Tuesday
• Research
• Technology
• Tenable
• Threats
• Trend Micro
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability disclosure
• Vulnerability Management
• vulnerability reporting
• Zero Day Initiative

Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday is first in 6 months with no actively exploited zero-days

Cyber Scoop March 10, 2026

Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday is first in 6 months...

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2 min read

• AI
• artificial intelligence (AI)
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Government
• identity
• Jason Bilnoski
• Nick Andersen
• Operation Winter SHIELD
• State Government
• Threats

FBI says even in an AI-powered world, security basics still matter

Cyber Scoop March 10, 2026

FBI says even in an AI-powered world, security basics...

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4 min read

• Agentic AI
• AI
• AI browsers
• Cybersecurity
• large language models
• lawsuit
• Perplexity
• Privacy
• U.S. courts

Federal judge blocks Perplexity’s AI browser from making Amazon purchases

Cyber Scoop March 10, 2026

Federal judge blocks Perplexity’s AI browser from making Amazon...

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3 min read

• Arctic Wolf
• CVSS
• Cybersecurity
• Java
• open source
• open source software
• Technology
• Threats
• vulnerability

Critical defect in Java security engine poses serious downstream security risks

Cyber Scoop March 10, 2026

Critical defect in Java security engine poses serious downstream...

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• artificial intelligence (AI)
• Commentary
• data sovereignty
• encryption
• GDPR
• op-ed
• State Department

No, it’s not ‘unnecessarily burdensome’ to control your own data

Cyber Scoop March 10, 2026

No, it’s not ‘unnecessarily burdensome’ to control your own...

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