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The extension in the $1.2 trillion funding deal is the latest short-term solution in a monthslong saga for CISA 2015, which provides liability protections to encourage private companies to share digital threat information with the federal government.

Hackers are targeting Afghan government employees with phishing emails disguised as official correspondence from the office of the country’s prime minister, researchers found.

British authorities are rolling out Report Fraud, a platform intended to win back public trust over how law enforcement responds to widespread cybercrime and fraud.

The National Cyber Security Centre highlighted the group known as NoName057(16) and other Russia-aligned operations that have targeted U.K. websites.

About 10 minutes of unauthorized video aired on Iranian state television over the weekend, according to multiple reports.

The operator of a cybercrime forum account known as "r1z" could spend up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to selling malware built to break into corporate networks.

Black Basta has been active since at least early 2022 and is believed to be responsible for extorting hundreds of companies, hospitals and public institutions worldwide — including Swiss industrial giant ABB and U.S. healthcare provider Ascension — causing hundreds of millions of dollars in estimated damages.

The nongovernmental Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization, which oversees the country's debt and equity marketplaces as well as some financial institutions, released details about an August 2025 data breach.

The police department said there “is no evidence indicating that APD systems have been compromised or that any APD data has been acquired by the threat actor.”

Chinese hackers successfully breached multiple critical infrastructure organizations in North America over the last year using a combination of compromised credentials and exploitable servers, researchers at Cisco Talos found.

If confirmed, Rudd would take over two entities that have been without a permanent leader since a far-right provocateur initiated a push to force out its last chief and has seemingly sunk a number of other senior officials.

Google has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit centered on claims that it habitually and illegally collected data from devices belonging to children under age 13.

Germany and Israel have signed a cyber and security cooperation agreement — a deal that Berlin hopes will lead to its own version of Israel’s so-called “cyber dome.”

Elon Musk’s social media platform X announced it would be making changes to prevent its AI tool Grok from creating sexualized images of people without their consent, including what critics say are effectively child sexual abuse material.

Microsoft and law enforcement partners took down a popular cybercriminal subscription service called RedVDS that was used to enable more than $40 million in fraud losses in the United States alone.

California’s attorney general said Wednesday that his office has opened a probe into the spread of nonconsensual sexually explicit material by the artificial intelligence tool Grok.

The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) started turning off internet and mobile phone services on Tuesday, according to Amnesty International.

France’s data protection regulator fined the subsidiaries of a telecom giant $42 million for cybersecurity vulnerabilities that contributed to a massive data breach.

Poland narrowly avoided a large-scale power outage by thwarting what officials described as the most serious cyberattack on its energy infrastructure in years.

The appointment of a strong proponent of civil liberties to the five-member board could have a significant impact on the agency’s work.