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Spyware maker NSO Group trumpeted the company’s participation in the Pall Mall Process, which drew criticism from civil society leaders and government officials who called out human rights abuses.

The surge in sightings has prompted the government to expand the powers available to service personnel to deal with the threat from uncrewed aerial vehicles without having to first involve law enforcement.

The attackers are believed to have gained access to the internal networks of OLV Pulhof, a secondary school in the Berchem district of Antwerp, shortly after the Christmas break.

Three popular Bulgarian websites offering pirated TV shows, video games, movies and other content were seized by U.S. agencies.

Seoul Metropolitan Police, as part of their investigation into the data breach at online retail giant Coupang, brought in acting CEO Harold Rogers.

Bumble and Match said they each recently responded to network intrusions. The group ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen data from both.

The new feature will not prevent location sharing with emergency responders and does not limit the location data users choose to share with apps, the company said.

The testimony by Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd about the importance of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) could put him at loggerheads with the commander-in-chief and other national security officials, such as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who has disparaged the foreign-spying power in the past.

The French data protection authority fined the country's national employment agency nearly $6 million for poor data security.

The Vladimir Bread Factory — one of the largest bakery producers in its region — said in a statement that its internal digital systems were hit overnight on Sunday, knocking out office computers, servers and electronic document management tools.

Both men charged with co-creating the dark web marketplace Empire Market have now pleaded guilty to federal drug conspiracy charges, closing the book on one of the major cybercrime cases of the early 2020s.

RAMP was used by Russian, Chinese and English-speaking cybercriminals and particularly catered to ransomware groups and their affiliates.

FTC Commissioner Mark Meador framed the issue through the lens of child safety, citing statistics showing increases in self-harm among children in the digital era.

Police raids led to the arrests of three Hungarians and one Romanian suspected of swatting and doxxing incidents, authorities said.

Adding to previous research about an operation against Poland's electrical grid, analysts at Dragos say it affected dozens of facilities and disrupted operational technology.

The government must do more to actively disrupt and deter foreign cyber and hybrid threats, U.K. ministers were told at at a parliamentary hearing.

A Virginia federal judge ruled that the warrantless use of Flock automated license plate cameras in Norfolk, Virginia, is constitutional and dismissed a case seeking to eradicate them.

WhatsApp is rolling out a new security feature designed to curb spyware that will block attachments and media from people not in a user’s contacts list.

In 2025, Chinese-language organizations laundered on average $44 million in illicit crypto each day, amounting to $16.1 billion.

The Justice Department has said that between February 2024 and December 2025, the gang stole at least $5.4 million from at least 63 ATMs, most of which belonged to credit unions.