In a statement, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had uncovered what it described as a "large-scale operation" involving malicious software installed on the mobile devices of senior Russian officials.
According to the company’s preliminary analysis, a compromised GitHub account was used to push the malicious code out to customers, hitting 32 packages downloaded roughly 117,000 times a week.
Police described the incident as a large-scale disclosure of sensitive personal information that posed a threat to both the affected individuals and the institutions they serve. The data was allegedly posted on multiple internet platforms.
NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) backlog mushroomed from 13,000 unprocessed security vulnerabilities in February 2024 to more than 27,000 by the end of 2025, “undermining the NVD’s utility and public trust," according to an inspector general r…
David Imbordino, an NSA senior executive who most recently led its cybersecurity directorate in an acting capacity, has been named as its new chief. Bruce Jones, a career NSA technical and operational leader, as the new head of its Cybersecurity Collabora…
In this GCN article, Staffan Truvé, CTO and Co-Founder at Recorded Future, explores how machine learning is speeding the processing of cybersecurity data.