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Zachary Sweeney allegedly traveled to New York, Indiana, Missouri and Georgia to meet and harm numerous victims in person. The FBI began investigating him in 2023. The post Tennessee man linked to 764 accused of series of crimes against children…

A report from the Commerce Inspector General details how mismanagement allowed a backlog of 27,000 unprocessed security flaws to grow unchecked, while the agency duplicated work with a similar CISA program. The post Federal audit reveals NIST’s NVD is plagued…

It’s part of a series of examinations at the House Homeland Security Committee that now will include a public event. The post House panel poised to hold hearing centered on AI impact on cyber appeared first on CyberScoop.

Michele Spagnuolo allegedly placed multiple trades on the prediction marketplace, abusing internal access to Google’s nonpublic data on the most searched people in 2025. The post Google security engineer accused of turning confidential search trends into $1.2M win on Polymarket…

A five-step flaw chain in the popular automation service, now patched, could have let a single attacker act as any signed-in user across thousands of connected apps. The post Zapier fixes bug chain that researchers say risked widespread account takeover…

The announcement builds on work from major tech firms in 2024 to combat AI-infused election chicanery. The post OpenAI heralds cybersecurity, election interference safeguard plans for 2026 midterms appeared first on CyberScoop.

Silent Ransom Group isn’t prolific, but it's demonstrated a knack for attacking the legal services sector with an extraordinary dual use of social engineering and in-person visits to victims’ workstations. The post FBI warns US-based law firms to be on…

Anne Keast-Butler, head of the GCHQ, said her agency was developing an artificial intelligence-powered cyber shield as other nations were deploying AI in warfare. The post UK spy chief labels AI ‘unstoppable force’ with offensive, defensive ramifications for cyberspace appeared…

CrowdStrike has dismantled the Glassworm botnet in an operation aided by Google and Shadowserver, stripping the operators’ access to infrastructure that helped threat actors infect hundreds of pieces of open-source software with malware since early 2025, the company said Tuesday. …

The release includes implementations of two quantum-secure algorithms and demonstrates how formal verification caught bugs that traditional testing would have missed. The post Apple open-sources quantum-resistant encryption code appeared first on CyberScoop.