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The officer was “relieved for cause” due to disagreements over operations by the organization’s chief.

Victims were prompted to download what appeared to be documents but were, in fact, executable files, often packaged in password-protected archives.

Kyowon Group, a conglomerate owned by one of South Korea's richest people, is the latest company there to report suspicious cyber activity to authorities.

Several internet access monitors tracking the situation said the government has continued the total internet shutdown and plans to implement a whitelist of limited, approved sites, indicating the internet blackout is likely to continue for several more days.

The dataset, advertised on an underground forum for $2,500, is said to contain about 8 million records linked to official notifications, including communications from police and judicial bodies.

Hungary has granted political asylum to Poland's former justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, who is being prosecuted for his role in a spyware scandal that has rocked the country.

A 33-year-old former IT consultant for Sweden’s Armed Forces has been detained on suspicions of spying for Russian intelligence, Swedish prosecutors said.

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled Friday that the man played a central technical role in a criminal network that exploited port computer systems in 2020 and 2021, allowing traffickers to move drugs through Europe’s logistics hubs without detection.

The move follows an eruption of complaints that began earlier this month when the platform’s artificial intelligence tool Grok was used to create sexual images of non-consenting people in response to user requests.

Daniil Kasatkin, 26, was seen in a video shared by Russian state news outlet TASS emerging from a plane that was then used to send French researcher Laurent Vinatier back to France.

AI tool Grok in recent days has been used to produce sexually explicit images of people without their consent, the lawmakers said.

The theft continues a trend from the last two years, when hackers stole billions worth of cryptocurrency from both platforms and asset owners.

Tim Kosiba, who has a long history of national security positions at the NSA and elsewhere, will be the signals intelligence agency's new deputy chief.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said on Thursday that the 10 directives being retired were issued between 2019 and 2024, spanning both the Trump and Biden administrations.

Datamasters bought and resold the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of millions of people with Alzheimer’s disease, drug addiction, bladder incontinence and other medical conditions for targeted advertising, according to the CPPA.

The artificial intelligence juggernaut in a blog post encouraged its hundreds of millions of users to connect medical records and wellness app data to the new health-focused chatbot feature, adding that it will be outfitted with extra data privacy protections.

David Imbordino, a NSA senior executive who is currently serving as the directorate’s deputy chief, will take the reins in an acting capacity at the end of the month.

Although the list does not include what are perceived to be the more consequential multilateral bodies shaping global cyber governance and state behaviour in cyberspace, some of the organizations play a role in shaping international law broadly.

A spokesperson said the information relates to an incident that came to light in November, when a threat actor demanded $150,000 for allegedly stolen data.

The Illinois Department of Human Services exposed personal information belonging to more than 700,000 state residents after inadvertently posting the data on the open internet where it remained for as long as four years before being taken down in September.