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A crypto CEO shared his screen. What happened next unraveled his digital life.

A global law enforcement crackdown on information-stealing malware led to the arrest of 32 suspects and the dismantling of more than 20,000 malicious IP addresses and domains linked to cybercrime.

Nearly 2,000 people were arrested and millions of dollars in illicit funds were seized in an operation coordinated by Singapore police against Asian scam operations.

Apple could have a new ally in its fight with the British government over whether it can be forced to retain access to the content of people's iCloud accounts in order to comply with legal warrants.

FIN6, a financially motivated group tracked for years by cybersecurity researchers, is now lurking on sites such as LinkedIn and Indeed to spread malware, a new report says.

British regulator Ofcom says it received complaints about illegal content on 4chan while the site’s administrators have failed to respond to requests for information.

Since the company’s March bankruptcy filing, 1.9 million of the company’s 15 million customers have chosen to delete their data, interim CEO Joe Selsavage said at the hearing.

Check Point attributed the attack to a group known as Stealth Falcon — a hacking group with longstanding ties to the UAE that has been implicated in dozens of spyware cases and hacking incidents involving governments across the Middle East and Africa.

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.