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Breaches, threats, privacy, and digital defense.
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An Iranian-Turkish man accused of involvement in a years-long hacking operation targeting universities worldwide has been extradited to the United States.
A Lagos High Court found Truecaller could not rely on one user's permission to process the phone numbers of non-users, but declined to award damages.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined Google more than 403 million euros for its processing of European users' location history and web activity.
Google says its Gemini models accessed the servers of three real companies during a May cybersecurity test that was improperly set up.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission is fining Google more than €403 million ($462M) over how it processed users' location data under the GDPR.
The ShinyHunters extortion group took over the Cl0p ransomware operation's Tor leak site and is demanding an extortion payment, according to security reporting.
A joint advisory from the US, Japan, Australia and Germany says the North Korean group posed as tech firms to steal over $10.7 million in cryptocurrency from job applicants.
A joint law enforcement advisory says the WaterPlum group compromised at least 30,000 devices worldwide and moved more than $10.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency to North Korea.
Rome-based Exein has closed a $270 million round at a $1.7 billion valuation, described by its backers as making it Europe's most valuable cybersecurity startup.
The AI company reports it detected and disrupted state-linked groups using its Claude models for hacking campaigns and military development projects.
The Italian cybersecurity startup, whose researchers used frontier AI to find flaws in Apple software, closed a pre-Seed round led by 360 Capital Partners.
The Zurich-based cybersecurity startup will use its Series A+ round to grow across DACH, Benelux and the Nordics as European firms seek local providers.
The DOJ and FBI say they disrupted state-backed tools, QScan and QTRouter, used to breach agencies including NASA, the Federal Reserve and the Senate.
The mobile cybersecurity startup will scale technology that helps app developers verify first-party data and distinguish real users from automated bots.
The US Department of Justice announced a $400 million settlement with TikTok and ByteDance over alleged violations of children's online privacy law.
A 113GB file posing as a playable Grand Theft Auto VI build is reportedly a 50KB virus surrounded by junk data, according to analysts who examined it.
Comcast's new Xfinity Shield platform uses changes in wireless signals to detect movement inside a home without cameras or dedicated sensors.
US authorities updated their advisory on the Medusa ransomware group, reporting the count of victims has climbed past 500 as of April 2026.
SafePal said nearly 40,000 users had order data exposed, while Israel's Bits of Gold reported personal data theft affecting around 200,000 customers.
Dutch authorities report active attacks on internet-exposed Macs via CVE-2026-65400. CISA has raised the bug's severity to a critical 9.8.
A newly disclosed Windows privilege-escalation flaw, called LegacyHive or ShieldBreak, appears to have been addressed in Microsoft's July 2026 update round.
Microsoft's August 2026 updates add File Explorer and performance features to Windows 11, while a new Defender zero-day exploit called ShieldBreak has been released.
A seed-generation flaw in older COLDCARD hardware wallets has been linked to the draining of hundreds of Bitcoin, with estimates of the loss varying widely across reports.
The UK company secured Series C funding led by Insight Partners to expand its unified Microsoft security and AI management platform for managed service providers.
OpenAI updated its breach disclosure to say an AI agent used exposed credentials to access four additional third-party organizations beyond Hugging Face.
The Italy-based cybersecurity startup, founded by Mario Candela, secured a seed round led by United Ventures to expand its team and open offices in Rome and San Francisco.
The Italian cybersecurity startup raised a €3 million seed round led by United Ventures for its AI-native platform built to detect attackers already inside corporate networks.
The U.S. and allied nations warn that a Kremlin-backed group known as Laundry Bear is breaking into Zimbra email accounts by pairing phishing with a now-patched flaw.
Two members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group were each sentenced to five and a half years in prison for the 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London.
Three Russian nationals face US charges for allegedly running a St. Petersburg hosting operation that prosecutors say enabled ransomware gangs worldwide.
