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Details of the case are classified, but Russian media say Timur Kilin may have drawn official ire after publicly criticizing the state-owned messaging app Max and the government’s anti-cybercrime legislation.

More than 70 civil liberties advocacy groups, academics and legal experts are calling for an investigation into a “collapse in enforcement activity” by the United Kingdom’s principal data protection regulator.

Donbas Post, which operates in the Russian-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk, said the incident affected its corporate network, web platform and email systems. The company had restricted access to several services to contain the breach and was working to restore operations.

A lack of liability for software vendors is putting Britain’s economic and national security at risk, an influential committee of lawmakers warned on Monday.

A county sheriff's office in Oklahoma and a police department in Massachusetts said their networks were recently disrupted by cybersecurity incidents.

Police departments across the country searched records from Flock Safety's network of automated license plate reader cameras hundreds of times to track protest activity, researchers found.

Moscow-based Positive Technologies says a China-linked group tracked as APT31 appears to be responsible for breaches of entities in Russia's tech sector.

The Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its suit alleging that SolarWinds Corp. and its chief information security officer had defrauded investors over the company's cybersecurity preparedness.

Two U.K. teenagers pleaded not guilty to hacking the Transport for London agency in 2024 — an attack attributed to the Scattered Spider cybercrime group.

The NCA on Friday confirmed that a money laundering network under investigation was used to purchase Keremet Bank in Kyrgyzstan, which was sanctioned earlier this year.

Salesforce posted a message on its website saying an investigation revealed that the activity “may have enabled unauthorized access to certain customers’ Salesforce data through the app’s connection.”

The report, which is based on an investigation begun by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) in 2017, provides an overview of what open-source information the FBI consults in such investigations.

The malware can monitor everything displayed on a phone in real time — including contacts, full message threads and the content of encrypted chats — by accessing data after it has been decrypted by legitimate apps.

The Republican-led FCC voted to remove cybersecurity rules for telecom companies that were put in place before Donald Trump's inauguration as a response to 2024 breaches attributed to state-backed Chinese hackers.

A bipartisan congressional duo introduced legislation that would beef up cybersecurity protections at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Thirty investigators from 15 countries took part in the five-day crackdown earlier this month targeting 69 digital piracy sites, including 25 illegal streaming services whose information was referred to cryptocurrency platforms for disruption.

A popular Russian bulletproof hosting service provider named Media Land was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury and international partners for its alleged support of ransomware gangs and other cybercriminal operations.

The Ontario and Alberta information and privacy commissioners’ reports fault the school systems for several missteps, including not putting privacy and security related provisions in their contracts with the education software firm.

Under the proposal, the EU would weaken data protection rules by delaying when regulations governing high-risk AI systems take effect and allowing companies to use personal data for AI training without prior consent from users in most circumstances.

The threat group PlushDaemon uses routers and other network device implants to redirect domain name system (DNS) queries to malicious external servers which take over updates to unleash tools used for cyberespionage.