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Traces of commercial surveillance technology manufactured by the Israeli spyware maker Cellebrite were found on a prominent Kenyan dissident’s phone, the latest in a series of abuses of the technology targeting civil society.

The campaign began in early January, shortly after mass nationwide demonstrations erupted across Iran calling for an end to the Islamic Republic system.

Dutch police have arrested a 40-year-old man who refused to delete confidential documents law enforcement accidentally sent to him.

Researchers said they identified a network of five Chrome extensions, marketed as tools to change themes and enhance the VK user experience, that took control of infected accounts and manipulated settings without users’ consent.

Ukraine's security service said Russia was trying to recruit locals to help restore access to blocked Starlink satellite internet terminals.

Space looks increasingly like the next arena of great power competition — crowded with satellites, vulnerable to disruption, and governed by rules written for a far simpler age.

Ring and Flock had announced their partnership in October, saying that Ring customers would soon be empowered to share their doorbell camera videos with police through Ring’s Community Requests program.

The European Union can no longer afford to be “naive” about adversaries’ ability to switch off critical infrastructure, the EU’s top tech official warned Friday, as she called for tougher rules and more investment to protect Europe from cyber and hybrid threats.

Speaking at the Munich Cyber Security Conference, Radmila Shekerinska said the security environment has become “more complex” and “more contested,” with rivals operating at the same time in the physical and digital worlds.

Yuh-Jye Lee, a senior adviser at Taiwan’s National Security Council, delivered a stark warning about China’s intentions to use cyberspace in new and more aggressive ways.

In a statement about the incident, Odido CEO Søren Abildgaard said names, bank account numbers, addresses, mobile numbers, email addresses, account numbers and IDs were stolen.

The next arena of political conflict won’t be defined by borders or territory. It will be written in code. And much of that code isn’t controlled by governments at all — it belongs to American companies.

The FTC's COPPA rule should not be an “impediment to the most child protective technology to emerge in decades,” a senior agency official said recently.

Disney has agreed to pay a $2.75 million to the state of California over allegations that it broke the state’s landmark privacy law by making it exceedingly difficult for consumers to opt out of having their data shared and sold.

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross told attendees of the Munich Cyber Security Conference that Washington is looking to deepen cooperation with partners rather than act alone.

Researchers found that APT groups were using the AI tool for coding and scripting tasks, gathering information about potential targets, researching publicly known vulnerabilities and enabling post-compromise activities.

WhatsApp said Thursday that Russia is attempting to fully block the messaging app in an effort to push users toward a state-backed alternative.

A shutdown would “degrade our capacity to provide timely and actionable guidance to help partners defend their networks,” acting CISA Director Madhu Gottumukkala told the House Appropriations Homeland Security subcommittee.

The House bill lacks several components that are included in the Senate bill and allows a federal law to preempt existing tough state laws, state AGs said.

The company told victims in September about the breach, and said an investigation revealed hackers were in ApolloMD’s IT environment between May 22 and May 23.