Hours after the FBI confirmed that Iranian hackers gained access to Director Kash Patel’s personal email account, the State Department offered a reward for information on cyber actors within the country.
The 311 members of Parliament who voted against an extension did so despite strong support from law enforcement, children’s rights groups, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, several European commissioners and a half dozen big tech companies to allow the scans to continue.
The parliamentary report warns that hostile actors are conducting sustained and increasingly sophisticated campaigns to interfere in democratic processes, exploiting divisive issues to amplify tensions and influence public debate.
An FBI spokesperson told Recorded Future News that the information is “historical in nature and involves no government information,” adding that the agency has “taken all necessary steps to mitigate potential risks associated with this activity."
Russian media outlets and Telegram channels have circulated allegations that the Baltic states opened their airspace to Ukrainian drones targeting Russian territory — a claim Riga strongly denied.
Hambardzum Minasyan appeared in an Austin federal court on Tuesday and was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, conspiracy to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
A senior U.S. official accused China’s government of implicitly backing Chinese criminal syndicates running cyber scam compounds across Southeast Asia and of exploiting a crisis that has resulted in billions being stolen from Americans each year.
A pro-Ukrainian hacker group known as Bearlyfy has carried out more than 70 cyberattacks against Russian companies over the past year and is now escalating its campaign with newly developed ransomware tools, researchers have found.
The age filters will be turned on by default, meaning that all users — including adults — will have to prove their age via credit card and other payment methods on file or by submitting an ID to be scanned.
The European Commission opened an investigation into Snapchat and warned four pornographic platforms they could face penalties for failing to follow child safety laws.
Russian authorities have detained a suspected administrator of LeakBase, a major online marketplace for stolen data, weeks after U.S. and European law enforcement agencies carried out a global crackdown on the platform.
The British government sanctioned Xinbi, a Chinese-language cryptocurrency marketplace accused of enabling large-scale online fraud and human exploitation, in a move targeting the financial infrastructure behind global scam networks.
With CISA’s reduced capacity during the shutdown, Andersen said, the agency is largely limited to responding to imminent threats, protecting life and property, sharing critical vulnerability and incident information and keeping its 24/7 operation center up and running.
The incident highlights growing concerns over the security of the open-source software supply chain, where widely-used tools maintained by small teams can provide a gateway into thousands of organizations if compromised.
A ransomware attack has disrupted digital systems at Spain’s Port of Vigo, forcing authorities to disconnect parts of its network and temporarily manage cargo operations manually.
Services at Centros de Servicios al Conductor (CESCO) — the agency responsible for issuing licenses, permits and vehicle registrations in Puerto Rico — cancelled all appointments due to a cyber incident.
Ilya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, pleaded guilty to managing a botnet that other cybercriminals used to break into corporate systems and deploy ransomware.
The U.K. government will try out various social media restrictions on certain families as part of a pilot program as it mulls a potential social media ban for teens.
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