Cybersecurity

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• Center 16
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• Cybersecurity
• energetic bear
• espionage
• FSB
• Geopolitics
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• Research
• Russia
• Ukraine

Russian cyber group exploits seven-year-old network vulnerabilities for long-term espionage

Cyber Scoop August 20, 2025

Russian cyber group exploits seven-year-old network vulnerabilities for long-term...

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• Akamai
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• botnets
• Cloudflare
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• DDoS
• Defense Criminal Investigative Service
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Digital Ocean
• Flashpoint
• Google
• hacking
• Mirai
• PayPal
• Threats
• Unit 221B

Officials gain control of Rapper Bot DDoS botnet, charge lead developer and administrator

Cyber Scoop August 19, 2025

Officials gain control of Rapper Bot DDoS botnet, charge...

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7 min read

• Cybersecurity
• Dominion Voting Systems
• election security
• Executive order
• Government
• Trump
• voting machines

Trump threatens executive order on elections, claims states must obey

Cyber Scoop August 18, 2025

Trump threatens executive order on elections, claims states must...

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• Cybersecurity
• FCC
• Government
• Privacy
• regulation
• Sprint
• T-Mobile

Court rebuffs request by telecoms to review $92 million privacy fine  

Cyber Scoop August 15, 2025

Court rebuffs request by telecoms to review $92 million...

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• Cisco
• Cybersecurity
• Darktrace
• edge devices
• firewall
• patch management
• Research
• security patch
• Technology
• Threats
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability disclosure

Cisco discloses maximum-severity defect in firewall software

Cyber Scoop August 15, 2025

Cisco discloses maximum-severity defect in firewall software | CyberScoop...

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• Cybersecurity
• data breaches
• FCC
• Government
• Privacy
• regulation
• Supreme Court
• Telecommunications

Court upholds FCC data breach reporting rules on telecom sector

Cyber Scoop August 15, 2025

Court upholds FCC data breach reporting rules on telecom...

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• crypto
• cryptocurrency
• cybercrime
• Cybersecurity
• Financial
• Garantex
• Government
• Grinex
• Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
• ransomware
• Russia
• sanctions
• State Department
• Threats
• Treasury Department

US widens sanctions on Russian crypto exchange Garantex, its successor and affiliate firms

Cyber Scoop August 14, 2025

US widens sanctions on Russian crypto exchange Garantex, its...

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• CVE
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Fortinet
• known exploited vulnerabilities (KEV)
• Research
• Technology
• Threats
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability
• vulnerability disclosure
• Vulnerability Management
• vulnerability reporting

Fortinet SIEM issue coincides with spike in brute-force traffic against company’s SSL VPNs

Cyber Scoop August 13, 2025

Fortinet SIEM issue coincides with spike in brute-force traffic...

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• Alexei Bulazel
• Biden administration
• Border Gateway Protocol
• budget
• Center for Democracy & Technology
• China
• cyber workforce
• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• DARPA
• DEF CON
• digital identity
• Eric Swalwell
• Executive order
• Foundation for Defense of Democracies
• Government
• Health-ISAC
• House Homeland Security Committee
• Institute for Security and Technology
• Mark Montgomery
• National Cyber Director
• National Security Council (NSC)
• National Security Memorandum 22
• NIST
• Obama administration
• Office of the National Cyber Director
• open source
• Policy
• Privacy
• regulation
• resilience
• Sean Cairncross
• Sean Plankey
• secure-by-design
• Threat hunting
• Trump administration
• U.S. Cyber Trust Mark

The overlooked changes that two Trump executive orders could bring to cybersecurity

Cyber Scoop August 13, 2025

The overlooked changes that two Trump executive orders could...

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• Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
• Exchange
• Exchange Server
• Microsoft
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Patch Tuesday
• Research
• Technology
• Threats
• vulnerabilities
• vulnerability disclosure
• Windows
• zero-days

Microsoft Patch Tuesday follows SharePoint attacks, Exchange server warnings

Cyber Scoop August 12, 2025

Microsoft Patch Tuesday follows SharePoint attacks, Exchange server warnings...

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