Financial Cyberscoop

The contentious hearing focused on other subjects, but lawmakers still had cyber questions and accusations for the head of the bureau. The post Senators, FBI Director Patel clash over cyber division personnel, arrests appeared first on CyberScoop.

Disaster was averted after widely used open-source packages were compromised via social engineering. The post The npm incident frightened everyone, but ended up being nothing to fret about appeared first on CyberScoop.

Cybercrime hubs in Southeast Asia scammed Americans out of at least $10 billion last year, a 66% increase from 2023, officials said. The post Treasury Department targets Southeast Asia scam hubs with sanctions appeared first on CyberScoop.

The agency will consider streamlining the CIRCIA rule and finding ways to deconflict with other cyber regulations. The post CISA pushes final cyber incident reporting rule to May 2026 appeared first on CyberScoop.

As the sanctions-evading scheme has grown, so too has the U.S. government’s response. The post Treasury sanctions North Korea IT worker scheme facilitators and front organizations appeared first on CyberScoop.

The group of experts sided with Google against the makers of Fortnite in the long-running antitrust battle. The post Court ruling in Epic-Google fight could have ‘catastrophic’ cyber consequences, former gov’t officials say appeared first on CyberScoop.

Operation Serengeti 2.0 dismantled almost 11,500 malicious infrastructures between June and August. Officials arrested more than 1,200 alleged cybercriminals. The post Interpol-led crackdown disrupts cybercrime networks in Africa that caused $485 million in losses appeared first on CyberScoop.

The State Department also announced financial rewards totaling up to $6 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Garantex’s leaders. The post US widens sanctions on Russian crypto exchange Garantex, its successor and affiliate firms appeared first on CyberScoop.

The hackers were allegedly involved in operations against Ukraine and a Russian on U.K. soil, the latter with malware tied to U.S. 2016 election interference. The post UK sanctions Russian hackers, spies as US weighs its own punishments for Russia appeared first on CyberScoop.

The food distributor and wholesaler completely shut down its systems upon discovering the attack last month, yet core systems were restored and normal operating capacity returned within three weeks. The post United Natural Foods loses up to $400M in sales after cyberattack appeared first on CyberScoop.