Financial deepfake scams targeted in bipartisan Senate bill
A congressional crackdown on deepfakes continued this week with the introduction of a bipartisan Senate bill targeting financial scams that leverage artificial intelligence to trick people out of their money. The Preventing Deep Fake Scams Act from Sens. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, and Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., would create a task force led by federal financial regulators…
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The SAVE database was already a headache for states. Now it’s fueling Trump’s voter fraud allegations.
Just under three weeks after being elected to his first term as president of the United States, Donald Trump took to Twitter to claim he’d been cheated. While he had won the office through his strength in the electoral college, Trump wanted to make something clear: he also believed he’d won the popular vote “if…
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Russian court releases several REvil ransomware gang members
Four members of the notorious cybercriminal group REvil were found guilty of financial fraud and computer crimes targeting primarily American victims, but were released after a Russian court determined their sentence would amount to time already served. The four men — Andrey Bessonov, Mikhail Golovachuk, Roman Muromsky, and Dmitry Korotayev — all admitted guilt and…
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The ‘16 billion password breach’ story is a farce
Supposed experts and mainstream media have spent the past few days hyperventilating over reports of a colossal data breach that exposed more than 16 billion credentials — a level of theft that should have defenders clutching their pearls. There’s just one inconvenient detail: the original report is curiously short on anything resembling actual evidence to…
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Meta confused over WhatsApp ban issued to House staffers
A notice to House offices Monday from the chamber’s chief administrative officer said that staffers are forbidden from having WhatsApp on official devices starting next week, prompting a rebuttal from the app’s parent company Meta. “The Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it…
Read More Stealth China-linked ORB network gaining footholds in US, East Asia
A recently discovered operational relay box (ORB) network controlled by a China-linked threat group already exceeds 1,000 devices and is growing across the United States and East Asia, SecurityScorecard said in a threat report released Monday. The ORB network, which SecurityScorecard dubbed “LapDogs,” is primarily composed of routers designed for small or home offices but…
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Rubrik acquires AI startup Predibase to boost agentic AI offerings
Data management company Rubrik announced plans Wednesday to acquire artificial intelligence startup Predibase, a move aimed at accelerating the adoption of agentic AI in enterprise settings and pushing efficient AI deployments from pilot programs into full production. The terms of the deal were not made public, but sources familiar with the situation told CNBC the…
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Citrix users hit by actively exploited zero-day vulnerability
Citrix on Wednesday disclosed an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting multiple versions of NetScaler products, an alarming development from a vendor that’s been widely targeted in previous attack sprees. The zero-day (CVE-2025-6543) was disclosed by Citrix nine days after it issued a security bulletin for a pair of defects (CVE-2025-5777 and CVE-2025-5349) in the same…
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Short-term extension of expiring cyber information-sharing law could be on the table
With time running short before expiration of a cyber information-sharing law highly valued by the private sector, Congress is taking a look at the possibility of a short-term extension. The 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which provided legal safeguards for companies to share threat data, is due to sunset at the end of September, and…
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Many data brokers aren’t registering across state lines, privacy groups say
Hundreds of companies registered as data brokers in one U.S. state are not recognized as such in other states with similar disclosure laws, according to a new analysis by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The country has a data broker problem, with few meaningful laws at the federal or state level…
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