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Phishing campaign spoofs local officials to steal permit fees

The FBI is warning about a phishing scheme in which cybercriminals impersonate city and county officials to solicit fraudulent payments for planning and zoning permits. …

USA
No more soft play, President Trump warns in new cyber strategy

The White House released “President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America,” a policy framework outlining the administration’s priorities for maintaining U.S. leadership in …

6G
Western governments lay the groundwork for secure 6G networks

Governments are preparing for 6G, the next generation of mobile networks, placing security and resilience among their top priorities. In response, seven countries …

OAuth
Threat actors weaponize OAuth redirection logic to deliver malware

An ongoing phishing campaign is abusing the OAuth authentication redirection mechanism to avoid triggering conventional email and browser defenses, Microsoft researchers have …

Claude
Anthropic poaches users from rival chatbots with easier migration

The controversy over Anthropic’s negotiations with the Pentagon has driven increased interest in Claude. Negotiations between the Department of Defense and Anthropic collapsed …

UK
UK reduces cyberattack fix times from two months to eight days

The UK government has launched a new vulnerability monitoring service (VMS) that promises to reduce the time needed to fix critical cyber weaknesses across the public sector. …

Apple NATO
NATO greenlights iPhone and iPad for classified information handling

Apple confirmed that the iPhone and iPad have been approved for use with classified information in NATO restricted environments. The devices will no longer require special …

Cisco
Threat actor leveraged Cisco SD-WAN zero-day since 2023 (CVE-2026-20127)

A “highly sophisticated” cyber threat actor has been exploiting a zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-20127) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller …

US Department of Justice
Ex-L3Harris executive sentenced to 87 months for selling stolen cyber-exploit trade secrets

Peter Williams, a former executive of Trenchant, L3Harris’ cyber division, has been sentenced to 87 months in prison by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., after pleading …

CISA
Binding Operational Directive 26-02 sets deadlines for edge device replacement

In this Help Net Security video, Jen Sovada, General Manager, Public Sector at Claroty, explains CISA’s Binding Operational Directive 26-02 and what it means for federal …

Poland arrest
Police seize 100,000 stolen Facebook credentials in cybercrime raid

Officers from Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) dismantled an organized group that used phishing to seize Facebook accounts and extract BLIK payment …

US Department of Justice
Ex-Google engineers charged with orchestrating high-tech secrets extraction

A federal grand jury has indicted three Silicon Valley engineers on charges in a scheme to steal trade secrets from Google and other leading technology companies. The …

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