Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., will soon introduce a bill that would restore federal funding support to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center and, in a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, urged the agency to prioritize the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its support of state, local and critical...Read More
Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court Abuja, has adjourned until June 15th, for ruling on the application filed by the presidential candidate of the Action Alliance Congress, Omoyele Sowore, seeking the judge to recuse himself from his trial. At the day’s hearing, Sowore told the court that he will represent himself, pending...Read More
NoName057(16) launches “Patriotic Online Games” hacking campaign Targets European organizations supporting Ukraine Volunteers rewarded with cryptocurrency for attacks NoName057(16), a pro-Russian hacker group known for DDoS attacks against Western organizations, launched a hacking initiative to get as many cybercriminals engaged in attacks against organizations in Europe. According to Cybersecurity Insiders, the group took to Telegram...Read More
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday to regulate the development of frontier AI models, with a focus on protecting the nation from cyberattacks and fraud and building an AI-literate workforce. The 269-page draft of the Great American Artificial Intelligence Act would require large frontier AI developers — defined as those with more...Read More
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Thursday urged Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members to enhance cooperation to tackle regional security challenges such as “terrorism,” cybercrime and drugs trafficking at a special meeting of the inter-governmental body in Bishkek. Naqvi was addressing a special meeting of the Ministers of Interior and Public Security of the...Read More
WASHINGTON — Senate health honcho Bill Cassidy is demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team explain the hack into the NYC Health + Hospitals system in which cyber intruders lurked for over three months without detection. Cassidy (R-La.), who helms the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised concerns about the data breach that exposed...Read More
The Good | Fraud Networks Disrupted, Crypto Exchanges Sanctioned & Doxer Arrested This week, the DoJ’s Scam Center Strike Force unveiled results from “Disruption Week,” a first-of-its-kind joint initiative between U.S. agencies and private industry targeting cyber-enabled cryptocurrency investment fraud. Federal investigators from the FBI, Secret Service, and HSI shared threat intelligence with major technology...Read More
05 Jun Virginia Is For Cyber Posted at 09:18h in Blogs by Taylor Fox This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 5, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Virginia is home to the second largest cybersecurity industry in the country, with around 88,000 cybersecurity workers, according to Cyberseek,...Read More
The US National Security Agency is reportedly using Anthropic’s cutting-edge Mythos AI model for hacking. Mythos has not been publicly released because of its powerful abilities to detect and exploit software vulnerabilities, and instead is being offered to select institutions to help them build defenses. The NSA is apparently using it for offensive purposes even...Read More
Another week in information security means another week where AI is in the headlines, either because someone’s used it to bypass a platform’s security, or because hackers are using AI to supercharge their attacks and target more people. In the first case, we reported that hackers used Meta’s AI chatbot to gain access to high-profile...Read More
