CyberScoop

07/07/2025

Gamemakers have only said they are investigating an unspecified “issue.” Players are posting videos of their computers being compromised.

Gamemakers have only said they are investigating an unspecified “issue.” Players are posting videos of their computers being compromised.

07/07/2025

The cybercrime ring has infiltrated more than 100 businesses since 2022, including more than a dozen since it regrouped earlier this year.

The cybercrime ring has infiltrated more than 100 businesses since 2022, including more than a dozen since it regrouped earlier this year.

07/07/2025

AT&T widely launched its Wireless Account Lock feature Tuesday, aiming to strengthen customer protection against account takeovers and SIM-swapping attacks.

The feature comes amid rising concern over SIM swapping and other social-engineering tactics that allow bad actors to compromise user accounts and take control of their phone numbers.

The Wireless Account Lock, which had been rolling out in waves since earlier this year, is widely accessible for both individual and business customers. The feature follows similar options from competitors such as T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi, which have already moved to bolster protections against SIM swapping and similar attacks. https://scoopmedia.co/44hB7Hu

07/07/2025

Federal authorities levied sanctions Tuesday on Aeza Group, a bulletproof hosting service provider based in Russia, for allegedly supporting a broad swath of ransomware, malware and infostealer operators.

Aeza Group has provided servers and specialized infrastructure to the Meduza, RedLine and Lumma infostealer operators, BianLian ransomware and BlackSprut, a Russian marketplace for illicit drugs, according to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Lumma infected about 10 million systems before it was dismantled through a coordinated global takedown in May. https://scoopmedia.co/3Ga3AWF

07/07/2025

Democrats have critiqued the bill for not protecting funds for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Swipe ➡️

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07/07/2025

Cloudflare announced Tuesday it will allow customers to block or charge fees for web crawlers deployed to scrape their websites and data on behalf of AI systems.

In a blog on its corporate website, Will Allen, Cloudflare’s vice president of product, and Simon Newton, an engineer manager, said the company is establishing a new system to limit AI web crawlers after hearing feedback from their customers. https://scoopmedia.co/4lAKAPM

07/07/2025

The Chinese hackers behind the massive telecommunications sector breach are “largely contained” and “dormant” in the networks, “locked into the location they’re in” and “not actively infiltrating information,” the top FBI cyber official told CyberScoop.

But Brett Leatherman, new leader of the FBI Cyber division, said in a recent interview that doesn’t mean the hackers, known as Salt Typhoon, no longer pose a threat. https://scoopmedia.co/4l7iWu5

07/07/2025

Democrats have critiqued the bill for not protecting funds for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Democrats have critiqued the bill for not protecting funds for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

07/07/2025

Multiple critical infrastructure sectors were hit last year during an attack spree in France via a trio of zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance devices, the country’s cybersecurity agency said in a report released Tuesday.

Government agencies and organizations in the telecommunications, media, finance and transportation industries were impacted by widespread zero-day exploits of CVE-2024-8190, CVE-2024-8963 and CVE-2024-9380 from early September to late November 2024, according to the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems. https://scoopmedia.co/40vsoiA

07/06/2025

Catch up on last week’s top stories in cybersecurity — from major sanctions and cybercrime crackdowns to zero-day exploits, SIM swap defenses, and new limits on AI data scraping. Swipe ➡️

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07/06/2025

AT&T widely launched its Wireless Account Lock feature Tuesday, aiming to strengthen customer protection against account takeovers and SIM-swapping attacks.

The feature comes amid rising concern over SIM swapping and other social-engineering tactics that allow bad actors to compromise user accounts and take control of their phone numbers.

The Wireless Account Lock, which had been rolling out in waves since earlier this year, is widely accessible for both individual and business customers. The feature follows similar options from competitors such as T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi, which have already moved to bolster protections against SIM swapping and similar attacks. https://scoopmedia.co/4nzAW1J

07/06/2025

Federal authorities levied sanctions Tuesday on Aeza Group, a bulletproof hosting service provider based in Russia, for allegedly supporting a broad swath of ransomware, malware and infostealer operators.

Aeza Group has provided servers and specialized infrastructure to the Meduza, RedLine and Lumma infostealer operators, BianLian ransomware and BlackSprut, a Russian marketplace for illicit drugs, according to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Lumma infected about 10 million systems before it was dismantled through a coordinated global takedown in May. https://scoopmedia.co/3G9ClLR