The Record

Congress is unlikely to move this week to renew two key cybersecurity efforts that were expected to hitch a ride on legislation to keep the government running.

A civil complaint filed by the federal government alleges that the Sendit app illegally collected data from users under 13 and tricked people into paying for subscriptions.

The shutdown, confirmed by internet monitoring groups NetBlocks, Kentik and Proton VPN, began late Monday and continued into Tuesday, affecting both mobile and fixed-line services. Telephone networks were also disrupted.

A Chinese national accused of running a fraudulent investment scheme pleaded guilty after U.K. police seized nearly $7 billion worth of Bitcoin during a raid of her home in north London.

The digital privacy nonprofit noyb says a Lithuania-based data broker has a "very shady business model" that runs afoul of European data privacy laws.

Ukraine's deputy prime minister is betting big on artificial intelligence's ability to shape governance, education and even the battlefield.

JLR itself is responsible for repaying the £1.5 billion ($2 billion) five-year loan from an unnamed commercial bank, but the lender has received a guarantee that the British government would step in if JLR fails to repay it.

Busy law enforcement agencies are trying out AI platforms that process large amounts of evidence to help officers build cases. Experts say there are potential dangers for everyone involved.

Leaders in Moldova described an environment of "massive pressure from Russia and its proxies" to undermine and disrupt voting in Moldova's parliamentary elections, in which voters favored the pro-European Union ruling party.

The hackers stole documents that had names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account information, fingerprint data, medical information, passport numbers and more.

Several African countries targeted transnational criminal networks that used social media and other digital platforms to run romance and sextortion scams, Interpol said.

Reports said two boys arrested in the Netherlands are suspected of working on behalf of pro-Russian hackers outside prominent buildings in The Hague.

Action Fraud is out, and Report Fraud is in. U.K. authorities say the latest version of a national reporting center for financially motivated cybercrime and other fraud will go live later this year.

In an earnings report, retailer The Co-op said its revenues took a hit of £206 million (about $274 million) from a cyberattack in April.

Vulnerabilities in some models of Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) have been exploited by "an advanced threat actor," according to a warning from CISA.

According to court documents filed this week by the plaintiffs, Google will set up a $48 million fund for Flo app users who entered information about menstruation or pregnancy from November 2016 until the end of February 2019.

Last week, cybersecurity experts and tech companies raised alarms about a widespread software supply chain compromise involving Shai-Hulud — a self-replicating worm that was used to infect more than 500 packages embedded in various software.

Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) intend for the bill to guard against commercial entities collecting, selling or mixing together individuals’ brain signals in ways that can shape their decisions, emotions or what they buy, according to a press release.

Maryland's statewide transit agency confirmed that a previously disclosed cyberattack exposed an unknown amount of data. A highly active cybercrime gang reportedly claimed the incident.

Authorities from more than 40 countries and territories blocked 68,000 bank accounts and froze about 400 cryptocurrency wallets as part of the operation from April through August, Interpol said.