Derek Johnson
Reporter at CyberScoop
Reporter and knowledge broker @CyberScoopNews, covering elections, privacy and more. Priors @fcwnow and @scmagazine. Catch me at [email protected].
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1 week ago |
cyberscoop.com | Derek Johnson
Multiple variants of jailbroken and uncensored AI tools being sold on hacker forums were likely generated using popular commercial large language models from Mistral AI and X’s Grok, according to research published Tuesday from Cato Networks.
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1 week ago |
cyberscoop.com | Derek Johnson
The United States should move toward a new model where “target rich, resource-poor” community organizations like hospitals, schools, utilities and municipal governments share their cybersecurity responsibilities with “other, more capable actors” in the government and private sectors.
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2 weeks ago |
cyberscoop.com | Derek Johnson
Digital rights groups are urging Senate leaders not to move forward with a bill that would impose new regulations on companies around child sexual abuse material, arguing that the legislation could be a privacy nightmare for Americans. In a letter addressed to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders Sens.
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2 weeks ago |
cyberscoop.com | Derek Johnson
A familiar face is being promoted from within to lead the FBI’s Cyber division. In a LinkedIn post Sunday, Leatherman said that FBI Director Kash Patel had selected him as assistant director and lead official for the FBI’s primary division for investigating cybercrimes. e The role is prominent in national security, espionage and counterintelligence investigations.
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3 weeks ago |
threatbeat.com | Derek Johnson
By Derek B Johnson • Jun 05, 2025 Software powers the world, and soon, the bulk of the work making it may be done by machines. As generative AI tools have gotten more proficient at coding, their use in software development has exploded.
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I wonder if 5-10 years from now we're going to be tracking drone groups the way we do APT and cybercriminal hacking groups. e.g. "Sunflower Spider strikes again."
Operation "Spiderweb" 2025 https://t.co/16BJ1yzTKI
RT @notadampaul: @growing_daniel whatever happened to good old American names like von Braun
RT @katikokal: A Wisconsin child care center closed for 5 days when the Trump admin froze funding for Head Start. Parents scrambled. One…
