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Salvadoran digital newspaper El Faro's employees filed a lawsuit in a US federal court on Wednesday against NSO Group, alleging the Israeli firm's controversial Pegasus software was used to spy on them.
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South Pacific Ocean nation Vanuatu is slowly getting its communications back online following a cyberattack that knocked out emergency services, emails and phone lines for weeks.
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The hackers leaking stolen Australian records from Medibank to the dark web appeared to end their extortion attempt by dumping a final batch of data online and declaring:"Case closed."
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Ireland's data regulator on slapped Facebook owner Meta with a 265-million-euro ($275-million) fine after details of more than half a billion users were leaked on a hacking website.
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US authorities announced a ban on the import or sale of communications equipment deemed "an unacceptable risk to national security" -- including gear from Chinese giants Huawei Technologies and ZTE.
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The European Parliament website was hit by a cyberattack claimed by pro-Russian hackers shortly after lawmakers approved a resolution calling Moscow a "state sponsor of terrorism".
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A Ukrainian hacker sought by US authorities for a decade was arrested last month in Switzerland, according to reports.
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A new EU law imposing stricter online regulation comes into effect Wednesday and the biggest platforms like Facebook and Google will have until February 17 to reveal their user numbers.
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Cybersecurity researchers said they have found evidence of Chinese spyware in Uyghur-language apps that can track the location and harvest the data of Uyghurs living in China and abroad.
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A top security officer for Twitter resigned on Thursday as new owner Elon Musk's revamp of the platform saw a boomlet of fake accounts, drawing a rare warning from US regulators.
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Hackers began leaking sensitive medical records stolen from Australian health insurer Medibank that had earlier refused to pay the group's ransom demand.
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The US government has seized $3.4 billion in bitcoin from a real estate developer who stole the cryptocurrency from the dark web marketplace Silk Road a decade ago.
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The mysticism that has allowed tech firms to make billions of dollars from surveillance is finally clearing, says Meredith Whittaker, President of encrypted messaging app Signal.
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The Red Cross is seeking support to create a “digital red cross/red crescent emblem” that would make clear to military and other hackers that they have entered the computer systems of medical facilities or Red Cross offices.
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UK opposition politicians called for an investigation after a newspaper reported that suspected Kremlin agents had hacked ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss's cell phone when she was foreign minister.
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The federal agency that provides low-income housing in Indianapolis is facing a ransomware attack that’s delayed its ability to send out rent payments to landlords, a top agency official says.
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Cyberattacks hit the Slovak and Polish parliaments, bringing down the voting system in Slovakia's legislature.
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The New York Post has "hacked" by an employee after the tabloid newspaper's Twitter account posted a series of antagonistic messages, including a call for the assassination Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Ukrainian Mark Sokolovsky has been charged with computer fraud for allegedly infecting millions of computers with malware known as "Raccoon Infostealer."
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A group called Black Reward issued an ultimatum on Twitter, threatening to release documents on Tehran's nuclear program unless all "political prisoners, prisoners of conscience and people arrested in the recent protests" were released within 24 hours.
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France has slapped a 20-million-euro fine on US firm Clearview AI for breaching privacy laws, as pressure mounts on the controversial facial-recognition platform.
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Arne Schoenbohm, head of Germany's Federal Cyber Security Authority, was fired after being accused of having ties to Russian intelligence services.
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Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz is launching a cybersecurity company with the Shalev Hulio, the ex-head of Israel's NSO Group, which makes controversial Pegasus spyware.
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Britain's GCHQ spy agency chief will warn Western countries of the "huge threat" from China seeking to exploit its tech dominance to control its own citizens and gain influence abroad.
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The websites for a number of major US airports were briefly taken offline Monday after a cyberattack promoted by a pro-Russian hacking group.
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