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ShinyHunters hijacked the dark web site of cybercrime gang Cl0p, set an eight-figure extortion demand, describing the amount as “2.333%” of Cl0p's net worth (therecord.media)
14 days ago Darknet

The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia (therecord.media)
2026-9-5 Asia Southeast Asia

AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over unanswered questions (therecord.media)
2026-8-19 AI

Canadian national Connor Moucka pleads guilty to participating in the 2024 Snowflake hacks involving data theft from at least 165 companies, including AT&T (therecord.media)
2026-8-6 Canada AT&T

The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks (therecord.media)
2026-7-2 Finland

Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025 (therecord.media)
2026-5-20

A bug in popular cPanel, WHM, and WP Squared software has reportedly been exploited since Feb.; CISA it gives a 9.8 CVSS score, tells agencies to patch by May 3 (therecord.media)
2026-5-2

The Senate confirms Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy created when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025 (therecord.media)
2026-3-11 Senate

The FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age (therecord.media)
2026-2-26

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TP-Link, alleging it deceptively markets its products as secure while allowing the CCP to hack into consumers' devices (therecord.media)
2026-2-19 Texas

Google agrees to pay $8.25M to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its AdMob SDK illegally collected data from children under age 13 (therecord.media)
2026-1-16 Google

The US urged UN members to take a tougher stance against North Korea IT worker scams and crypto thefts; an October 2025 report said 40+ countries were affected (therecord.media)
2026-1-14 Korea

The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 (therecord.media)
2025-12-31

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide (therecord.media)
2025-12-19 Google

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)
2025-11-8 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)
2025-10-23

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

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