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NSA last week changed the moniker of its Office of Computer Network Operations (CNO) back to Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a name that is sure to elicit nostalgia among the broader digital community for a group with roots in the early 1990s.

Ireland, Spain, France and the Netherlands are more than 20 months late in transposing the NIS2 Directive for the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.

The use of the spyware came to light in 2022, with traces of Predator found on dozens of phones. The scandal led to the resignation of Greece’s intelligence service chief and the prime minister’s chief of staff.

State attorneys general announced the bipartisan agreement with Block, Inc. on Wednesday, saying that the company incorrectly promised users that Cash App offered the same protections as a bank.

A company based in Taiwan was leasing out accounts on the popular LINE messaging app to Chinese spies, according to prosecutors, who charged two men in the alleged scheme.

Liz Kendall, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, said she was “absolutely appalled” at the findings of “sexual harassment and bullying” made by an independent investigation at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

An FBI tip linked a man living in Spain to the hacking groups CyberArmy of Russia Reborn (CARR), Z-Pentest and NoName057(16).

The communication, adopted in Strasbourg on July 7, is built around three pillars: making frontier AI “safe, accessible and deployable” for European cybersecurity, preparing the EU’s cyber ecosystem and scaling European AI capabilities.

A student advocacy organization and tech trade group had appealed to the high court to stay the Texas App Store Accountability Act on an emergency basis until the lower court rules.

The capability, called Cyber Shield, is designed to counter a threat the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said could see attackers “move at machine speed and greater scale, reducing opportunities for detection and response.”

The company said the breach affected an email system used to manage customer email accounts, webmail services and email storage for five Japanese internet service providers.

Those that did sign include large firms such as Aviva, the London Stock Exchange Group and Marks & Spencer, which lost hundreds of millions of pounds in a cyberattack last year, as well as small cybersecurity consultancies.

A ransomware-as-a-service gang, an online foreign extremist group and drug traffickers were separately the targets of offensive operations in 2025, according to Canada's Communications Security Establishment.

BonkDAO said in a social media post that it was the victim of a “malicious governance proposal,” or an attack in which holders of a large amount of BONK used that leverage to vote more coins into their wallets.

Information like Social Security numbers and health-related data was accessed, but the company said it had “no evidence that impacted information has been publicly posted or exposed on the internet.”

The unnamed student, who lives in a city near Tokyo, allegedly exploited a flaw in a subscription-based anime streaming platform to fraudulently cancel more than 46,000 user subscriptions.

A top Ukrainian security official described two previously unreported attacks on TV media organizations and said Russia has ramped up hacking activities against the industry.

Stelios Kouloglou, formerly a member of the European Parliament's committee investigating abuses of commercial spyware, was twice infected with Pegasus while serving, researchers said.

The plan had been due for publication on Monday, the sources said. It has been postponed amid the uncertainty over the governing Labour Party’s leadership contest, which opens July 9.

In a Tuesday letter, Max Schrems, the founder of the Vienna-based privacy advocacy organization noyb, told European officials he plans to sue to invalidate the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) that allows for the transfer of personal data from the EU to U.S. companies.