Cyber Scoop

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• budget
• Chris Murphy
• CISA
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• disinformation
• election security
• Gary Peters
• Government
• House Appropriations Committee
• information sharing
• Kristi Noem
• Lauren Underwood
• misinformation
• Money
• Senate Appropriations Committee

Sen. Murphy: Trump administration has ‘illegally gutted funding for cybersecurity’

Cyber Scoop May 8, 2025

Sen. Murphy: Trump administration has ‘illegally gutted funding for...

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• credential theft
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• data breaches
• Data theft
• Education
• extortion
• ransomware
• stolen credentials
• Threats

PowerSchool customers hit by downstream extortion threats

Cyber Scoop May 7, 2025

PowerSchool customers hit by downstream extortion threats | CyberScoop...

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• CrowdStrike
• Cybersecurity
• jobs
• Technology
• workforce

CrowdStrike cuts 5% of workforce after revenue jumped 29% last year

Cyber Scoop May 7, 2025

CrowdStrike cuts 5% of workforce after revenue jumped 29%...

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• booter and stresser services
• cybercrime
• DDoS
• Department of Justice
• Europol
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Operation PowerOFF

Six DDoS sites seized in multi-national law enforcement operation

Cyber Scoop May 7, 2025

Six DDoS sites seized in multi-national law enforcement operation...

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• Meta
• NSO Group
• Privacy
• spyware
• Technology
• U.S. courts
• WhatsApp

NSO Group owes $168M in damages to WhatsApp over spyware infections, jury says

Cyber Scoop May 6, 2025

NSO Group owes $168M in damages to WhatsApp over...

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• Colorado
• Cybersecurity
• election
• election security
• Government
• U.S. courts
• voting systems

Trump calls on Colorado to release election-denying clerk from jail

Cyber Scoop May 6, 2025

Trump calls on Colorado to release election-denying clerk from...

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• budget
• China
• CISA
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Government
• House Appropriations Committee
• Policy

House appropriators have reservations — or worse — about proposed CISA cuts

Cyber Scoop May 6, 2025

House appropriators have reservations — or worse — about...

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• Commentary
• encryption
• op-ed
• signal

After Signal controversy, do private conversations online exist anymore?

Cyber Scoop May 6, 2025

After Signal controversy, do private conversations online exist anymore?...

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• Android
• Cybersecurity
• Google
• mobile
• mobile security
• security patch
• Technology
• vulnerabilities

Google addresses 1 actively exploited vulnerability in May’s Android security update

Cyber Scoop May 5, 2025

Google addresses 1 actively exploited vulnerability in May’s Android...

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• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Government
• indictment
• ransomware

Federal prosecutors indict alleged head of Black Kingdom ransomware

Cyber Scoop May 5, 2025

Federal prosecutors indict alleged head of Black Kingdom ransomware...

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