The Record

The internet shutdown in Iran entered its sixth day on Friday, with human rights groups calling on the country's leaders to restore digital access.

Committee Democrats criticized the KIDS Act for including a weak knowledge standard that they said allows tech companies to escape accountability for online safety harms by claiming they are unaware kids are using their platforms and deserve protections.

Passaic County, home to nearly 600,000 people in Northern New Jersey, published a statement on Wednesday evening warning residents that it is aware of a “malware attack” affecting county IT systems and phone lines.

A criminal network in Spain exploited dozens of Ukrainian women displaced by Russia’s war to carry out a multimillion-dollar fraud gambling scheme, Europol said Thursday.

Ptitsyn and several others began using the Phobos ransomware in November 2020, attacking more than 1,000 organizations around the world. He was arrested in South Korea and extradited in November 2024.

Google Threat Intelligence Group said it tracked 90 zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited by a variety of actors last year, surpassing the 78 that were used by threat actors in 2024.

The FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection chief discussed the agency’s embrace of age verification and how industry should think about data privacy enforcement under his watch.

International law enforcement agencies have dismantled a major phishing-as-a-service platform used to target hundreds of thousands of accounts worldwide, including those tied to hospitals and schools, Europol said Wednesday.

The Taipei District Prosecutors Office initiated its investigation in October after Chen Zhi, the founder of the Prince Group, was indicted by U.S. prosecutors on money laundering charges.

The FBI and European law enforcement agencies carried out a global crackdown on a cybercrime forum where criminals bought and sold stolen credentials and exploits of software vulnerabilities.

Researchers have identified a suspected Russian espionage campaign targeting Ukraine that uses two previously undocumented malware strains.

The CPPA alleges that PlayOn Sports collected students' personal data and delivered targeted advertising by using tracking technologies without providing a “sufficient way to opt out.”

The breach emerged this week when a threat actor claimed they stole 2 GB worth of information from the company that included millions of records.

In its amicus brief, Google called the warrants a violation of people’s rights and said that in recent months it has objected to more than 3,000 geofence warrants on constitutional grounds.

The Global Coalition on Telecoms (GCOT) — comprising the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Japan and Australia, with Sweden and Finland joining at the launch — unveiled voluntary security and resilience principles for the technology at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.

According to court documents, the defendant purchased millions of dollars of labels but did not sell them with the corresponding software.

U.S. Cyber Command conducted online attacks against Iranian communications systems that the country’s top general said set the stage for the joint bombing campaign with Israel.

Part of the breach was traced back to a Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) Study established in 1993, which used driver’s license numbers and voter registration records to recruit participants.

An espionage campaign last year targeted government agencies and critical infrastructure operators in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf said.

The Bamberg Regional Court in Bavaria handed down the sentence last Thursday after an 11-day trial conducted under heightened security measures, according to reports by local media.