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Telegram's Pavel Durov has left France, reportedly after a judge authorized him to leave the country for “several weeks”; the investigation is ongoing (therecord.media)
16 days ago France

Experts say Sean Cairncross' nomination as national cyber director signals the White House's ONCD will lead US cyber policy across the government (therecord.media)
25 days ago

Sources: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions (therecord.media)
2025-3-1 Russia

MGM Resorts agrees to pay $45M to settle 14 class action lawsuits related to a data breach in 2019 and a ransomware attack the company experienced in 2023 (therecord.media)
2025-1-29

Sources: US State Dept.'s freeze on foreign aid applies to a bureau that uses cyber diplomacy to fight threats and pursues international norms for emerging tech (therecord.media)
2025-1-26

During her confirmation hearing for secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem says efforts to address foreign disinfo campaigns were outside the remit of CISA (therecord.media)
2025-1-18

President Biden signs the $895B 2025 defense policy bill, including $3B for the FCC's “rip and replace” program to get rid of Chinese networking equipment (therecord.media)
2024-12-25 China

The US DOJ indicts 14 North Korean nationals for allegedly earning $88M+ through fraud by working as remote IT workers for US companies from 2017 to 2023 (therecord.media)
2024-12-14 Korea

Vodka maker Stoli says an August 2024 ransomware attack contributed to the bankruptcy filing of its US arm, amid its ongoing issues with the Russian government (therecord.media)
2024-12-4 Russia

Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin is shutting down and plans to transfer accounts and assets to crypto firm SBI VC Trade by March, after a $300M+ hack in May (therecord.media)
2024-12-3 Japan Bitcoin Asset

In its latest security report, Meta says it removed 2M+ accounts this year connected to pig butchering scams conducted from Southeast Asia and the UAE (therecord.media)
2024-11-22 Asia Southeast Asia

A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed (therecord.media)
2024-11-20

An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto mixer Helix, which laundered $311M+ from 2014 to 2017; he must forfeit $311M+ and assets worth $400M+ (therecord.media)
2024-11-16 Asset

How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021 (therecord.media)
2024-11-13 Italy

The Biden admin unveils proposed rules for restricting the transfer of US citizens' sensitive data, including biometric and genomic info, to adversarial nations (therecord.media)
2024-10-22

UK-based Sophos plans to acquire Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Secureworks for ~$859M, expected to close in early 2025; Dell owns ~79% of Secureworks (therecord.media)
2024-10-22

Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme orchestrated by group UNC5267 starting in 2018 (therecord.media)
2024-9-25 Korea Google

The FBI says it disrupted a botnet of “hundreds of thousands” of IoT devices worldwide last week, run by the China-linked hacking group Flax Typhoon (therecord.media)
2024-9-19 IoT China FBI

An IBM and Ponemon study of 604 organizations affected by data breaches between March 2023 and February 2024 finds the global average cost rose 10% YoY to $4.9M (therecord.media)
2024-7-31 IBM

Law enforcement officials and experts: criminal groups are shying away from large ransomware-as-a-service platforms after disruption operations and an exit scam (therecord.media)
2024-7-25

The FTC seeks info from Mastercard, JPMorgan, and six other companies related to their “surveillance pricing products” that use personal data, AI, and more (therecord.media)
2024-7-24 AI JPMorgan

Bangladesh orders a nationwide shutdown of its mobile internet amid student protests that killed dozens of people to “ensure the security of citizens” (therecord.media)
2024-7-19 Mobile Bangladesh

Q&A with FTC's Privacy and Identity Protection executive Ben Wiseman on proposed commercial surveillance rules, connected car industry's data practices, more (therecord.media)
2024-6-3

Research: Southeast Asian scam syndicates, which typically use forced labor to run online scams like pig butchering, are stealing an estimated $64B annually (therecord.media)
2024-5-15 Southeast Asia

The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so (therecord.media)
2024-4-29 IoT

Sophos researchers find “crude”, cheap ransomware tools being sold on the dark web, enabling inexperienced freelancers to easily launch attacks (therecord.media)
2024-4-19 Darknet Freelance

Palo Alto Networks alerts customers that hackers are exploiting a zero-day in its popular GlobalProtect VPN product and promises a patch by April 14 (therecord.media)
2024-4-13 VPN

Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated (therecord.media)
2024-3-28 Google

German military officer charged with spying for Russian intelligence services (therecord.media)
2024-3-21 Russia Germany Intelligence

How the Belarusian Cyber Partisans are fighting a digital war against two dictators (therecord.media)
2024-3-12

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