Court in Poland blocks inquiry into previous government’s spyware abuses
Three judges appointed to Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal by the country’s ousted Law and Justice (PiS) party have blocked an inquiry into that party’s alleged abuse of Pegasus spyware...
New but ‘immature’ ransomware group CosmicBeetle targets small businesses
A group that researchers are calling CosmicBeetle has developed new ransomware and deployed it against small and medium-sized businesses, mostly in Europe and Asia, according to a new...
Teenager in Britain arrested over cyberattack on London transport agency
Editor's Note: Story updated 11:40 a.m. Eastern U.S. time with new statement from TfL. The National Crime Agency announced on Thursday it had arrested a teenager in...
Payment-processing company says data breach potentially affected 1.7 million people
Slim CD, a company that provides software to merchants for processing electronic payments, said the credit card information of nearly 1.7 million people was exposed to an “unauthorized...
Feds say ‘Terrorgram’ white supremacists used Telegram to incite attacks
Two leaders of a white supremacist group that used Telegram to spread its ideology and coordinate activities were indicted on terrorism and hate crime charges, the U.S. Justice...
Chinese ‘Crimson Palace’ espionage campaign keeps hacking Southeast Asian governments
A high-stakes cat and mouse game between defenders and a sophisticated trio of Chinese cyberespionage groups has continued this year, with the hackers launching a string of attacks...
CosmicBeetle Deploys Custom ScRansom Ransomware, Partnering with RansomHub
The threat actor known as CosmicBeetle has debuted a new custom ransomware strain called ScRansom in attacks targeting small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South...
Washington state school district closed for second day after cyberattack
A Seattle-area school system serving more than 17,000 students is closed Tuesday for a second day to start the school year after a cyberattack caused network outages. ...
Russian pro-democracy nonprofit investigates alleged data breach by Kremlin-backed hackers
The U.S.-based Free Russia Foundation nonprofit said it is investigating a data breach after thousands of emails and documents supposedly related to its work were published online. ...
CISA says SonicWall bug being exploited as experts warn of ransomware gang use
Federal cybersecurity experts are warning that a vulnerability affecting products from SonicWall is being exploited, and ordered all federal civilian agencies to implement a patch for the bug...
