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Google has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit centered on claims that it habitually and illegally collected data from devices belonging to children under age 13.

Germany and Israel have signed a cyber and security cooperation agreement — a deal that Berlin hopes will lead to its own version of Israel’s so-called “cyber dome.”

Elon Musk’s social media platform X announced it would be making changes to prevent its AI tool Grok from creating sexualized images of people without their consent, including what critics say are effectively child sexual abuse material.

Microsoft and law enforcement partners took down a popular cybercriminal subscription service called RedVDS that was used to enable more than $40 million in fraud losses in the United States alone.

California’s attorney general said Wednesday that his office has opened a probe into the spread of nonconsensual sexually explicit material by the artificial intelligence tool Grok.

The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) started turning off internet and mobile phone services on Tuesday, according to Amnesty International.

France’s data protection regulator fined the subsidiaries of a telecom giant $42 million for cybersecurity vulnerabilities that contributed to a massive data breach.

Poland narrowly avoided a large-scale power outage by thwarting what officials described as the most serious cyberattack on its energy infrastructure in years.

The appointment of a strong proponent of civil liberties to the five-member board could have a significant impact on the agency’s work.

Eleven countries led a session at the UN headquarters in New York centered around a 140-page report released last fall that covered North Korea’s extensive cyber-focused efforts to fund its nuclear and ballistic weapons program.

Nicholas Moore of Springfield "intentionally accessed a computer without authorization” on 25 different days when breaking into the filing system between August and October 2023, court documents allege.

Vasyl Maliuk, chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said he would step down from the post but remain in the agency to continue operations against Russia.

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.