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Unit 42: “commercial grade” spyware called Landfall, likely zero-click, was used in a hacking campaign aimed at Samsung Galaxy phones in the Middle East (therecord.media)
12 days ago Samsung

Starlink VP Lauren Dreyer says the company “proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected ‘scam centers'” in Myanmar (therecord.media)
28 days ago

Austria's privacy regulator finds that Microsoft violated EU law by illegally tracking students through its Microsoft 365 Education software (therecord.media)
2025-10-11 Microsoft Education Austria

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that will require web browsers to add settings that allow residents to opt out of third-party data collection (therecord.media)
2025-10-9 California

German officials say they will vote against the EU's “Chat Control” proposals, signaling the bloc will not have enough support ahead of an October 14 vote (therecord.media)
2025-10-9 Germany

Oracle urges customers to patch an E-Business Suite vulnerability that's being exploited by cybercriminals; Mandiant said the Clop hacking group exploited it (therecord.media)
2025-10-7 Oracle

LinkedIn sues a company called ProAPIs for allegedly operating millions of fake accounts to scrape LinkedIn member data and selling it for ~$15,000 per month (therecord.media)
2025-10-4 LinkedIn

Switzerland proposes regulations forcing service providers to collect user IDs and disable encryption, threatening its status as a haven for privacy tech firms (therecord.media)
2025-9-12 Switzerland

Sources: US Cyber Command and the NSA will retain a single leader after the Trump administration found that breaking up the arrangement would be very complex (therecord.media)
2025-9-10 Trump

SentinelOne researchers detail over 10 offensive cybersecurity patents filed by Shanghai Firetech, a company allegedly involved in Beijing's Silk Typhoon hacks (therecord.media)
2025-8-2 Shanghai

A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies (therecord.media)
2025-7-26 Korea

The US Treasury sanctions three senior North Korean officials accused of tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities as IT workers (therecord.media)
2025-7-25 Korea

A US federal jury gives five Nevada men varying prison sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services (therecord.media)
2025-7-24

Google says threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by targeting fully patched, end-of-life appliances from cybersecurity company SonicWall (therecord.media)
2025-7-17 Google

Google says its Big Sleep AI agent for finding unknown software vulnerabilities recently discovered a critical SQLite flaw that “was at risk of being exploited” (therecord.media)
2025-7-16 Google AI SQLite

French media: French police detained Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin at the US' request due to his alleged links to a ransomware group (therecord.media)
2025-7-12 Russia France

A German court ruled Meta's tracking pixels embedded in third-party websites and apps violate the EU's GDPR, ordering it to pay €5,000 to a German Facebook user (therecord.media)
2025-7-10 Germany Facebook GDPR

Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin (therecord.media)
2025-6-25 Russia

Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider (therecord.media)
2025-6-21 Insurance

Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations (therecord.media)
2025-5-17 Japan

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)
2025-3-18 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)
2025-3-8

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

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