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The opinion also states that social media access should not be allowed for children below age 13 under any circumstances.

Gerald Eddie Brown, 65, was arrested in Jeffersonville, Indiana on Thursday after spending nearly three years living in China and allegedly providing combat aircraft training to pilots in the Chinese Air Force.

Rudd “does not have the background that would allow him to immediately step into” the role of leading Cyber Command, Wyden wrote in a letter that was included in the Congressional Record on Wednesday.

A Greek court sentenced the founder of the Intellexa Consortium and three associates to prison for their role in a sprawling spyware scandal that has dominated Greek headlines since it came to light in 2022.

A cyberespionage campaign carried out by a China-linked threat actor affected at least 53 government and telecom organizations across 42 countries, Google said.

The British government said it has slashed the time required to fix some of the most serious cyber vulnerabilities across the public sector, pointing to a new automated monitoring service as evidence that Whitehall is finally getting a grip on long-troubled digital defenses.

The rate at which ransomware victims paid cybercriminals fell last year while the overall number of attacks ballooned, Chainalysis found.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions against website and online service providers who collect, use and share personal data using age verification technologies.

A breach of TriZetto software first described by counties in Oregon affected millions of Americans overall, according to public data released this week by the company.

In responding to pushback about Discord's impending age verification policy, co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy said the platform "failed at our most basic job: clearly explaining what we're doing and why. That's on us.”

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive warning of a “cyber threat actor’s ongoing exploitation of Cisco SD-WAN systems,” describing the activity as presenting a significant risk to federal civilian executive branch networks.

In addition to the $17.25 million payout, which will be split between more than 10 million potential class members, the settlement requires PowerSchool to establish a “web governance” committee to monitor certain actions.

In a filing with U.S. regulators, Massachusetts-based medical device manufacturer UFP Technologies said intruders possibly stole or destroyed company data during an incident earlier in February.

China's top prosecutorial agency said authorities have handled hundreds of domestic cases involving commercial espionage and technology leaks since 2021.

A Moscow resident has been accused of trying to extort money from the notorious Conti ransomware group by posing as an officer of Russia’s Federal Security Service, according to local media reports.

The Treasury Department sanctioned a Russian national and his company for allegedly acquiring eight proprietary cyber tools that were stolen from the defense contractor L3Harris and sold to "unauthorized" customers.

Over a five-month period a group dubbed Diesel Vortex stole more than 1,600 login credentials from accounts at logistics platforms, allowing thieves to intercept and divert freight shipments and commit check fraud.

Scott Schelble, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s International Operations Division, told reporters that he recently met with law enforcement officials in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to discuss the region’s scam operations.

"Reddit was using children’s data unlawfully, potentially exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content,” British regulators said in announcing a fine against the platform.

The decentralized finance platform Step Finance said the theft of $40 million from its treasury in late January led the company to decide to wind down operations.