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The Medusa ransomware operation has claimed a devastating cyberattack that knocked out systems at the biggest hospital in Mississippi for nine days.

A Georgia man who had already served time for conning professional athletes is accused of impersonating a prominent adult film actress in order to break into the Apple accounts of NBA and NFL players.

Alex Fitzsimmons, the acting director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), said the plan is meant to supplement the recently-published national cyber strategy and will focus on how the agency will strengthen the “security resilience” of the energy sector.

The case, which had its roots in 2018, originated in the way that Amazon obtained consent from European consumers.

Electronic ordering systems belonging to the medical device company Stryker are still down a week after a cyberattack believed to have wiped thousands of company devices of all information. The company said its digital products are safe for use.

The Russian city of Perm has restored its parking payment system after a cyberattack knocked the service offline.

A Russia-linked hacker group launched a cyber-espionage campaign targeting Ukrainian organizations using fake documents about Starlink satellite internet terminals and a well-known Ukrainian charity, to infect devices with spyware.

The new rules for water and wastewater entities in New York include mandatory cybersecurity training for certified operators, incident response plans and reporting requirements.

The Council said in a press release that it has added a new provision in the AI Act “prohibiting AI practices regarding the generation of non-consensual sexual and intimate content or child sexual abuse material.”

U.S. prosecutors accused an incident responder of conducting cyberattacks and helping ransomware gangs negotiate higher payouts from the same victims he was working for.

The SocksEscort proxy network allowed cybercriminals to purchase access to routers infected with malware, which they used to conceal their location and IP addresses.

The number of FBI searches of data collected through the surveillance program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) between December 2024 to November 2025 rose to 7,413 from 5,518 the previous year.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Ofcom stressed that they expect immediate action, with Ofcom saying that firms have until the end of April to report back on their plans.

Brig. Gen. Matthew Lennox, a senior leader at Army Cyber Command, will take over for Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Lorna Mahlock, who had led the force since 2024.

In an 8-K filing with the SEC, Stryker confirmed that the cyberattack caused a global disruption to the company’s Microsoft environment and said external cybersecurity experts were brought in to “assess and to contain the threat.”

The medical device manufacturer Stryker confirmed reports Wednesday that a cyberattack has disrupted operations after a hacker group claimed to have targeted the company in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

In a statement shared with local media, parliament said its main systems and official website remained operational but confirmed that internal email services used by the parliamentary administration had been temporarily suspended.

The company said Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial accounts, medical information and health insurance information was stolen during the cyberattack.

Meta said it disrupted an influence operation linked to Iran that used “sophisticated fake personas” on Instagram to build relationships with U.S. users before introducing political messaging.

Meta said it removed 159 million scam ads last year amid calls from U.S. lawmakers for an investigation into the company’s “facilitation of and profiting from” fraudulent advertising.