Police said on Monday the victims included both Ukrainian and foreign players whose accounts contained valuable digital items, rare equipment and in-game currency purchased with real money.
Privacy advocates had worried that the high court would rule that geofencing does not qualify as a constitutionally protected search, opening the door to much broader use of warrantless reverse searches of all types.
State officials said they observed overseas criminals carrying out government impersonation or tech support cons, as well as romance and pig butchering scams using cryptocurrency ATMs.
A California man was sentenced to more than five years in prison for his role in supporting a cybercriminal organization that stole about $260 million worth of cryptocurrency from victims.
A Chinese national accused of being a member of a state-backed hacking group that allegedly broke into systems to steal COVID-19 vaccine information has been extradited to the U.S. from Milan.
Officials and experts believe the most likely threat from Iranian hackers is not a digital shock-and-awe campaign, but something quieter: opportunistic intrusions, dressed up to look bigger than they are.
The home security company ADT said cybercriminals breached company systems on Monday and stole a “limited set” of customer and prospective customer information.
Autonomous weapons are becoming an "essential" part of modern war, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told an audience at Vanderbilt University’s Asness Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats.
Canadian police arrested three men over the use of a mobile “SMS blaster,” a device capable of impersonating a cellular tower to send mass phishing messages and disrupt mobile networks.
CISA said the unnamed department was infected with malware called “FIRESTARTER” that allowed the hackers to return to the Cisco device in March without re-exploiting the original vulnerabilities.
The campaigns exploited a weakness in telecom infrastructure to allow the unnamed vendors to secretly pose as real cellular providers and pinpoint victims’ locations.
The group, which researchers at cybersecurity firm ESET named GopherWhisper, has been active since at least November 2023 and was discovered in January 2025 after investigators found a previously unknown backdoor on the network of a Mongolian government institution.
Sean Plankey reportedly told colleagues that he needed to focus on assuaging concerns about his Coast Guard work that had led Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) to block his nomination.
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