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A Virginia federal judge ruled that the warrantless use of Flock automated license plate cameras in Norfolk, Virginia, is constitutional and dismissed a case seeking to eradicate them.

WhatsApp is rolling out a new security feature designed to curb spyware that will block attachments and media from people not in a user’s contacts list.

In 2025, Chinese-language organizations laundered on average $44 million in illicit crypto each day, amounting to $16.1 billion.

The Justice Department has said that between February 2024 and December 2025, the gang stole at least $5.4 million from at least 63 ATMs, most of which belonged to credit unions.

The company said in a brief statement that it takes consumer privacy and data security seriously and is “actively assessing the situation,” but offered few details about the scope of the alleged breach or whether customer information may have been exposed.

Building and car alarm systems managed by Russian company Delta have been disrupted by a cyberattack blamed on a "hostile foreign state."

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its voice-activated assistant illegally recorded and shared the plaintiffs’ private conversations with third parties without their consent.

The Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear a case stemming from the use of a Facebook tracking pixel to monitor the streaming habits of the user of a sports website.

A London judge said there was a "compelling basis" to conclude that Saudi Arabia was behind spyware infections aimed at YouTuber and regime critic Ghanem Al-Masarir.

A major cyberattack that nearly cut electricity to half-a-million people in Poland last year was reportedly carried out by the Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm, which likely attempted to knock out systems using wiper malware.

Police seized devices and cryptocurrency in multiple raids aimed at an alleged assassins-for-hire platform, Romanian authorities said.

A new investigation of X and its Grok bot will determine whether the company "treated rights of European citizens — including those of women and children — as collateral damage of its service," EU officials said.

A notice published Friday by state-run Xinhua News Agency said the two men — Zhang Youxia, the country’s most senior uniformed military officer, and Liu Zhenli, a top operational commander — have been placed under investigation following deliberation by the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee.

Germany's Dresden State Art Collections network said it was able to keep facilities open and protect artworks while responding to a cyberattack against large portions of its digital infrastructure.

“Russia’s aggressive actions have consequences," Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said after Germany announced a Russian diplomat had been expelled on suspicions of espionage.

The Irish government plans to draft legislation that would make it legal for law enforcement to use spyware, Minister of Justice Jim O’Callaghan said.

The case dates to May 2022, when the court launched a probe into the alleged spying on devices belonging to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Defence Minister Margarita Robles.

Britain’s House of Lords voted by an overwhelming margin to ban children under age 16 from accessing social media, setting up a vote on the law in the House of Commons.

The findings, published by Citizen Lab Thursday, are based on the research institute’s digital forensic analysis of seized phones in four cases and Jordanian court records in three cases.

A vehicle search uncovered a mobile computing system hidden in the trunk and connected to a roof-mounted transmitter disguised as a shark-fin antenna.