CyberScoop

1 day ago | cyberscoop.com | Derek Johnson

President Donald Trump’s firing over the weekend of Shira Perlmutter, director of the U.S. Copyright Office, has drawn strong criticism from Democrats and tech experts who believe her dismissal is related to a report on generative AI and copyright law that the register of copyrights released a day earlier. That report, overseen by Perlmutter, questioned whether AI companies can legally train their models on massive amounts of copyrighted data without compensating creators.

1 day ago | cyberscoop.com | Derek Johnson

As the Trump administration takes a hatchet to the federal government’s election security work and attempts to place conditions on funding to states, state and local election officials are pleading with lawmakers to provide robust support  they say  is crucial to keeping American elections secure.

2 days ago | cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko

Federal authorities seized two domains and indicted four foreign individuals for alleged involvement in a long-running botnet service that infected older wireless internet routers, the Justice Department said Friday. The malware created for the botnet allowed infected routers to be reconfigured, which granted unauthorized access to third parties and made the routers available for sale as proxy servers on Anyproxy.net and 5socks.net, according to law enforcement officials.

5 days ago | cyberscoop.com | Matt Kapko

Voting is open for the 2025 CyberScoop 50 awards! Vulnerabilities are proliferating in SonicWall devices and software this year, putting the vendor’s customers at risk of intrusion via secure access gateways and firewalls. The year started off on a sour note for the California-based company when it released security advisories for nine vulnerabilities on Jan. 7. The total number of vulnerabilities publicly disclosed by the company so far in 2025 has grown to 20. SonicWall vulnerabilities are...

5 days ago | cyberscoop.com | Derek Johnson

A bipartisan Senate bill would formally ban the use of DeepSeek by federal contractors, part of a larger effort to keep the Chinese-made large language model out of government systems and networks, where lawmakers fear it could pose cybersecurity and national security concerns. The bill, introduced by Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., would bar federal contractors from using the model to carry out any activity related to a federal contract.