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Two more Poles have been identified as victims of phone hacking with the powerful spyware from Israel’s NSO Group: an agrarian political leader and the co-author of a book about the head of Poland’s secret services.
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A key part of President Joe Biden's plans to fight major ransomware attacks and digital espionage campaigns has been languishing for more than eight months, and this is not the first time lawmakers have been unhappy with the pace of progress.
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A Belarusian hacktivist group says it has launched a limited cyberattack on the national railway company, aimed at impeding the movement of Russian troops and freight inside the Moscow-allied country.
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The District of Columbia and three states are suing Google for allegedly deceiving consumers and invading their privacy by making it nearly impossible for them to stop their location from being tracked.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange won the first stage of his effort to overturn a U.K. ruling that opened the door for his extradition to U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges.
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Western security officials and policymakers fear that China could exploit Nuctech equipment to sabotage key transit points or get illicit access to government, industrial or personal data from the items that pass through its devices.
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The FBI and other federal government agencies are increasingly looking to counter cyber threats through tools other than criminal indictments.
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Israeli lawmakers on called for a parliamentary inquiry into the police’s alleged use of sophisticated spyware on Israeli citizens, including protesters opposed to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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While it is not immediately clear who was behind cyberattacks on Ukraine, they come amid heightened tensions with Russia and after talks between Moscow and the West failed to yield any significant progress this week.
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Albuquerque Public Schools announced earlier this week a cyber attack would lead to the cancellation of classes for around 75,000 students.
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A leading Maryland lawmaker said that top legislators were misled about the seriousness of a cyberattack on the state health department.
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The disruption of Maryland’s reporting of COVID-19 data last month was caused by a ransomware attack.
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Dozens of journalists and human rights defenders in El Salvador had their cellphones repeatedly hacked with sophisticated spyware over the past year and a half.
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The Albanian government said that it would hire a U.S. company to bolster its cybersecurity following a large leak last month.
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The European Union crime agency has been ordered by the 27-nation bloc’s data protection watchdog to erase information related to individuals with no proven link to crime.
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A judge said Thursday he will fine Cyber Ninjas, the contractor that led Arizona Republicans’ 2020 election review, $50,000 a day if the firm doesn’t immediately turn over public records related to the unprecedented inquiry.
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Polish leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski acknowledged that the country bought advanced spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group.
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Amnesty International says its has independently confirmed that powerful spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group was used to hack Polish senator, Krzysztof Brejza, multiple times in 2019.
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One of Portugal’s leading media conglomerates said that a group calling itself “Lapsus$” hacked the company’s online services, taking down some of its most popular websites and contacting subscribers.
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The Broward Health hospital system suffered a data breach in October where a hacker accessed personal and medical information of patients and staff.
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ACLU is demanding more answers about a data breach at the state’s public bus service, including why the personal information of state employees who don’t even work for the agency was compromised.
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State workers in West Virginia will be paid on time this week despite a ransomware attack that affected a software provider that helps manage the state’s payroll system.
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The public school district in Mississippi’s capital city is implementing new cybersecurity measures after hackers attacked its server last year.
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Albania’s prime minister on Thursday apologized for a big leak of personal records from a government database of state and private employees, which he said seems more like an inside job than a cyber attack.
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The information technology agency that serves Virginia’s legislature is still working to fix problems caused by a ransomware attack earlier this month, a state official said Tuesday.
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