A new White House programme will let vetted U.S. security companies conduct surveillance and disruptive operations against foreign cybercrime groups under federal direction. It is a significant expansion of private-sector offensive capability, but the memorandum’s legal guardrails leave difficult questions about attribution, accountability and escalation.
Malware forced Suisun City to shut down its entire IT network, disrupting 911 routing and police and fire dispatch. A county-level failover kept emergency calls and field response operating.
Attempted attacks on major US investment firms put the helpdesk and identity provider at the centre of the threat model. Public reporting does not establish that every named target was breached. Update, 22 August 2026: Apollo Global Management has confirmed…
A cyberattack forced the North Carolina State Ports Authority to use contingency procedures and manual processing across its operations in Wilmington, Morehead City and Charlotte. The incident was detected on 4 August 2026. The authority contained the intrusion and began…
The FCC has placed foreign-produced advanced robotic devices on its Covered List. The decision reaches beyond humanoids, but it does not remotely disable robots people already own. The US Federal Communications Commission updated its Covered List on 28 July to…
A breach reported by AssuranceAmerica affected 6,998,886 people and included driver-licence information. The long-term risk is identity abuse, not only an immediate phishing campaign. US motor insurer AssuranceAmerica began notifying people after an incident affecting 6,998,886 individuals. Public notices and…
Claude, export controls and the case for keeping local models within reach On Tuesday, 9 June 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. Three days later, neither model was available to anyone. The reason was not a…
Update: The UK NCSC now reports limited real-world disruption Updated 29 August 2026: The UK National Cyber Security Centre says it has seen increased targeting of operational technology across multiple sectors globally, including the United Kingdom. The activity involves several…
A breach of an FBI system used for court-authorised surveillance is a reminder that “metadata” can reveal operations, targets and methods even when message content remains untouched. The FBI has acknowledged suspicious activity involving an unclassified internal system used to…
Puerto Rico's Law 40-2024 creates a government CISO, an incident office and mandatory security controls across agencies, municipalities and suppliers.
