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An FBI tip linked a man living in Spain to the hacking groups CyberArmy of Russia Reborn (CARR), Z-Pentest and NoName057(16).

The communication, adopted in Strasbourg on July 7, is built around three pillars: making frontier AI “safe, accessible and deployable” for European cybersecurity, preparing the EU’s cyber ecosystem and scaling European AI capabilities.

A student advocacy organization and tech trade group had appealed to the high court to stay the Texas App Store Accountability Act on an emergency basis until the lower court rules.

The capability, called Cyber Shield, is designed to counter a threat the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said could see attackers “move at machine speed and greater scale, reducing opportunities for detection and response.”

The company said the breach affected an email system used to manage customer email accounts, webmail services and email storage for five Japanese internet service providers.

Those that did sign include large firms such as Aviva, the London Stock Exchange Group and Marks & Spencer, which lost hundreds of millions of pounds in a cyberattack last year, as well as small cybersecurity consultancies.

A ransomware-as-a-service gang, an online foreign extremist group and drug traffickers were separately the targets of offensive operations in 2025, according to Canada's Communications Security Establishment.

BonkDAO said in a social media post that it was the victim of a “malicious governance proposal,” or an attack in which holders of a large amount of BONK used that leverage to vote more coins into their wallets.

Information like Social Security numbers and health-related data was accessed, but the company said it had “no evidence that impacted information has been publicly posted or exposed on the internet.”

The unnamed student, who lives in a city near Tokyo, allegedly exploited a flaw in a subscription-based anime streaming platform to fraudulently cancel more than 46,000 user subscriptions.

A top Ukrainian security official described two previously unreported attacks on TV media organizations and said Russia has ramped up hacking activities against the industry.

Stelios Kouloglou, formerly a member of the European Parliament's committee investigating abuses of commercial spyware, was twice infected with Pegasus while serving, researchers said.

The plan had been due for publication on Monday, the sources said. It has been postponed amid the uncertainty over the governing Labour Party’s leadership contest, which opens July 9.

In a Tuesday letter, Max Schrems, the founder of the Vienna-based privacy advocacy organization noyb, told European officials he plans to sue to invalidate the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) that allows for the transfer of personal data from the EU to U.S. companies.

A complaint unsealed this week accuses a 19-year-old of participating in incidents including a breach of a "luxury-jewelry retailer" in 2025.

Anthropic said export controls on certain models had been lifted after the company came to a series of agreements with the government.

Aflac's Tokyo arm and brewer Sapporo are among the major Japanese companies to recently notify the public about data breaches.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said artificial intelligence capabilities are "akin to digital nuclear weapons.”

The Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act passed with bipartisan support by a 267-117 margin, winning the two-thirds majority needed to greenlight the legislation under a process that speeds up a bill’s path to a vote but requires more than a simple majority.

Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assumed hands-on responsibility for overseeing the spending plans of intelligence agencies following the recent departure of Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a senior intelligence official who simultaneously served in multiple roles, including one at OMB.