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The city filed breach notification letters with regulators seven months after a ransomware gang accessed systems.

According to police in Guangzhou, the group — allegedly linked to Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) — has targeted more than 1,000 key networks in over 10 Chinese provinces.

The threats ranged from deceptive apps designed to steal personal information to fraudulent payment schemes.

Massachusetts-based MathWorks provided an update to customers on Monday after initially reporting outages on May 18, confirming that it experienced a ransomware attack that took down online applications and internal systems used by staff.

The government, which previously criticized the app for so-called "subversive" activity on the platform, alleged Telegram had not cooperated with authorities in addressing criminal activity.

Europol said 300 servers and 650 domains were taken down worldwide, while about $3.5 million was seized during raids throughout the week as part of Operation Endgame.

CISA weighed in on a cyberthreat to Commvault customers that the data management giant had reported in multiple blog posts earlier this year.

U.S. and EU law enforcement seized more than $200 million and 144 kilograms of fentanyl or fentanyl-laced narcotics alongside 180 firearms as part of the international effort.

The alleged leader of the cybercriminal gang behind the Qakbot malware, which was used by many high-profile ransomware gangs, has been indicted by the U.S. Justice Department.

The company paused the platform for safety reasons before confirming that an attacker had stolen the funds.

Since January, cybersecurity experts have seen Chinese-speaking hackers exploiting a bug impacting a tool used by local governments to manage critical infrastructure assets and other services.

The hackers used phishing emails containing government-themed lure documents to gain access to targeted systems.

Earlier this month, Killnet claimed it had hacked Ukraine’s drone-tracking system after disappearing from public view in 2023.

Cellcom CEO Brighid Riordan said the company has been dealing with a “cyber incident” but they “simply don’t have a lot of facts.”

Children with parent-controlled Google accounts will automatically be able to access the AI-powered Gemini chatbot unless a parent opts out.

A sting involving law enforcement and private sector companies disrupted the Lumma infostealer — malware sold around the globe to cybercriminals and credited for millions of infections.

Two Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board were unlawfully removed from their positions by President Donald Trump, a federal judge ruled.

In documents filed with regulators in Maine on Tuesday, Coinbase said the information leaked included details like photos of passports and government IDs, as well as account information such as balances and transaction history.

The 19-year-old Assumption College student, Matthew Lane, also was charged Tuesday with hacking and demanding a ransom payment from an unnamed telecommunications company, according to Massachusetts federal prosecutors.

George Simion, the leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), claimed that external forces had attempted to influence the outcome.