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Microsoft, Google, Meta and Snapchat released a statement on Friday saying they “reaffirm their continued commitment to protecting children and preserving privacy, and will continue to take voluntary action” to complete the scans.

The suspects were named as Daniil Shchukin, a 31-year-old Russian national believed to have used the alias UNKN (UNKNOWN), and Anatoly Kravchuk, a 43-year-old Ukraine-born Russian citizen who investigators say worked as a developer for the group.

Bryan Fleming, founder of pcTattletale, was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine by a San Diego federal judge and will spend no time in prison beyond the one day he already served.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave federal agencies until Thursday to apply the hotfix.

The disruption on Friday affected apps from some of the country’s largest banks, including Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, T-Bank and Gazprombank.

Die Linke confirmed in late March that its IT infrastructure had been hit by what it described as a “serious cyberattack.”

Voxbeam’s actions allegedly led to “financial impersonation robocalls” that were made to American consumers “ using “non-compliant and long dormant accounts,” the FCC said.

A bug in a popular line of video conferencing software is being exploited by hackers, prompting the U.S. government to order all agencies to patch the vulnerability within two weeks.

The European Union’s cybersecurity agency said the hacking group TeamPCP was behind a massive recent data breach at the European Commission.

An emergency communications system used across a handful of small towns in northern Massachusetts was impacted by a cyberattack.

In a new report, CERT-UA said attackers are revisiting previously breached infrastructure to check whether access is still available, whether exploited vulnerabilities have been patched and whether previously obtained credentials remain valid.

The platform released a post-mortem on Wednesday night explaining that malicious actors gained access to Drift systems through a “novel attack” that involved the “rapid takeover” of the company’s security council administrative powers.

If the French effort becomes law, it would make France the first European country to follow Australia’s lead by banning social media for young teenagers.

The Meta subsidiary alleges that Italy’s SIO spyware manufacturer designed the phony app specifically for iPhones. Most of the impacted users are in Italy, according to a WhatsApp announcement.

Security experts believe hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency were stolen from decentralized finance platform Drift on Wednesday after the site confirmed it was experiencing a cyberattack.

A hacking group claimed this week to have breached the file-transfer system used by a company that offers services to Nissan and Infiniti dealerships across North America. Nissan said there was no indication "customer information was accessed or put at risk."

Although the LiteLLM attack was reportedly tied to a group called TeamPCP, the hacking gang Lapsus$ claimed on its website that it obtained hundreds of gigabytes of Mercor’s data.

A water treatment plant in the city of Minot, North Dakota, was hit with ransomware but city officials said it continues to operate normally.

Romanian government institutions are facing thousands of cyberattack attempts every day targeting a wide range of public institutions, Defense Minister Radu Miruta said.

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) joined several other researchers in attributing the attack to a North Korean threat actor they call UNC1069. SentinelOne found the same group using macOS-based malware in attacks dating back to 2023.