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Google's data transfers from idle Android phones on cellular networks essentially amounted to stealing, lawyers alleged in a class-action case where a jury awarded $314 million to plaintiffs. Google said it will appeal.

The campaign uses thousands of phishing websites that mimic the design and product listings of retailers like Apple, Nordstrom and Hermes to trick people into entering their credit card information.

Surmodics, a Minnesota-based company that makes specialized coatings for medical devices, reported a cyberattack to federal regulators.

The initiative, dubbed the “Cyber Dome,” involves the creation of a German-Israeli cyber research center and expanded cooperation between Israel’s Mossad and Germany’s BND intelligence agency.

Columbia University said the hacker stole data from a “limited portion" of its network but that it was still determining the size of the breach.

Spain’s Interior Ministry said the suspects were responsible for stealing and leaking personal data belonging to high-ranking political figures, including Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, President of the Congress of Deputies Francina Armengol and Catalonia’s President Salvador Illa.

Support for ransomware, darknet drug markets and other cybercrime activity landed the Russian company Aeza Group on the U.S. government's sanctions list, the Treasury Department said.

A Russian hosting provider allegedly involved in a recent cyberattack against independent media organizations in the country is reportedly connected to a state-affiliated research center sanctioned by the U.S.

Three Democrats on the committee gave Cairncross the nod to be considered for a full Senate vote, including committee ranking member Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) who has been a leader in the Senate on cybersecurity issues.

Spain's Guardia Civil and Europol touted an operation that took down an international scheme that lured victims into bogus cryptocurrency investments.

The ICC credited its “alert and response mechanisms” for “swiftly” discovering, confirming and containing a cyberattack.

The Justice Department announced a coordinated action to disrupt a Pyongyang campaign to get North Koreans hired at U.S.-based companies.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in favor of Texas' law requiring age verification for porn-site users will have ripple effects across other states — and also for personal data privacy and security, experts say.

Canadian Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly said in a statement that the determination was made with “information and evidence provided by Canada's security and intelligence community” and that she strongly encourages Canadians to “take note of this decision and make their own decisions accordingly.”

Russia has been cracking down on Cloudflare for months, with similar restrictions imposed on other foreign cloud and hosting providers.

The agencies said U.S. critical infrastructure entities should be on high alert for "Iranian-affiliated cyber actors" trying to target American networks.

Sarcoma, a recently emerged cybercrime group, was responsible for a data breach of Swiss health nonprofit Radix, according to a statement by the Zurich-based organization.

A U.K. man is serving a seven-month jail term because he changed access credentials and did other damage to his employer's systems after he was suspended from the job.

A cyberattack that temporarily affected some of Hawaiian Airlines' IT systems was likely the work of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group, which lately has taken an interest in the aviation industry, incident responders say.

NATO states agreed to each spend 5% of their GDP on defense within a decade, including a chunk that could go toward civilian cybersecurity efforts.