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Leaders at the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre are calling for more political attention on cybersecurity, arguing that regulation and legislation aren't keeping up with technology.

The scheme is based in Cambodia, where people residing in scam centers contact U.S. victims through phone calls, texts, dating apps and other avenues to promote fake cryptocurrency investments.

The campaign has affected hundreds of Russian users, particularly targeting industrial enterprises and engineering schools, with additional victims reported in Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Texas said hackers compromised an account at the Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The agency discovered unusual activity on May 12 involving its Crash Records Information System (CRIS).

Israel-based spyware maker Paragon and Italy's government had a falling out over the company's offer to help investigate what happened on journalist Francesco Cancellato's phone.

A longtime FBI official with deep cybersecurity experience is the new leader for the bureau's Cyber Division.

The statement said the Rhode Island-based company identified unauthorized activity on its systems on Thursday, prompting officials to take systems offline. The action “has temporarily impacted the Company’s ability to fulfill and distribute customer orders.”

In its latest campaign this spring, DarkGaboon was observed deploying LockBit 3.0 ransomware against victims in Russia, Positive Technologies said in a report last week.

A wide-ranging executive order issued before the weekend makes changes to directives from previous presidential administrations and sets some policy deadlines on quantum computing and artificial intelligence.

Authorities said they busted a ring responsible for illegally extracting citizens' data from Kazakhstan's government networks and distributing it through Telegram and other ways.

The group was arrested in December as part of a raid that included 599 Nigerians and 193 other foreign nationals, many of them Chinese, on suspicion of being involved in a range of online crimes.

State-backed threat actors from a handful of countries are using ChatGPT for a range of malicious purposes, including malware refinement, employment scams and social media disinformation campaigns.

TV streaming devices, digital projectors and other IoT devices are being infected with BadBox 2.0 malware after the original campaign was stifled by German law enforcement.

The Ohio-based Kettering Health system said a recent cyberattack was by the Interlock ransomware gang, which had claimed to steal troves of data from the organization.

The U.S. government wants to confiscate millions of dollars in funds tied to illegal employment of North Korean IT workers at American companies.

In his Senate confirmation hearing, national cyber director nominee Sean Cairncross faced questions about his lack of cybersecurity experience and how the government would operate with vastly reduced cybersecurity resources.

The group has been operating since at least 2017, initially breaching systems belonging to the Kurdistan Regional Government and have expanded their reach to the Central Government of Iraq as well as a telecommunications provider in Uzbekistan.

The suspect, a native of the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, had been conducting cyberattacks since at least 2018, police said.

Officials from His Majesty's Revenue & Customs, the U.K.'s tax authority, said criminals took over accounts to pilfer £47 million ($63 million) last year.

Law enforcement officials said initial access brokers with ties to Play ransomware operators continue to exploit multiple vulnerabilities in remote monitoring and management tool SimpleHelp.