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BridgePay Network Solutions initially warned customers on Friday that it was dealing with system-wide outages and later said that it was working with the FBI and U.S. Secret Service forensic team to resolve a ransomware attack.

Ivanti said it was aware “a very limited number of customers” had been attacked while two vulnerabilities were still unpatched.

Officials at Cubic, the manufacturer of the gates, reportedly say their product has cameras that record for five seconds when someone neglects to pay a fare. Artificial intelligence is used to produce a physical description of suspected fare evaders, they say, and the description is sent to the MTA.

The preliminary findings follow an investigation that began in February 2024 probing features such as “infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its highly personalised recommender system,” the European Commission said in a press release.

Kyle Svara of Oswego, Illinois is facing decades in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, computer fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud and false statements related to child pornography.

The assessment said Chinese security and intelligence services have strengthened their ability to operate in Norway, including through cyber operations and human intelligence collection.

Romania’s national oil pipeline operator Conpet said a cyberattack disrupted parts of its technology infrastructure and knocked its website offline earlier this week, adding that oil transport operations were not affected.

The U.S. cyber defense agency issued an operational directive on Thursday mandating federal agencies to “remove any hardware and software devices that is no longer supported by its original equipment manufacturer.”

Russian state-linked hackers are exploiting a Microsoft Office vulnerability to target maritime organizations across Europe as part of a “sophisticated espionage campaign," researchers said.

Customers of the newsletter platform Substack were notified on Wednesday of a breach, following a hacker's claims on the dark web of a trove of stolen data.

Unit 42 tracked the compromise of at least 70 institutions across the 37 countries — with the hackers maintaining access to some victims for months. In one country, the hackers gained access to the parliament and a senior elected official.

Multiple Italian foreign ministry offices and facilities associated with the Winter Games were targeted by attacks.

A Taiwanese national was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. prison for his role as an administrator of Incognito Market, a popular dark web platform that facilitated more than $100 million of drug sales.

The U.S. military digitally disrupted Iranian air missile defense systems during its operation last year against the country’s nuclear program, some of the most sophisticated action Cyber Command has taken to date against Iran.

Ukraine has rolled out a verification system for Starlink satellite internet terminals used by civilians and the military after confirming that Russian forces have begun installing the technology on attack drones.

“I think that we'll have some news on CIRCIA in pretty short order, in the next couple of weeks, hopefully,” Nick Andersen, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA, told reporters.

CVE-2025-40551 carries a critical severity score of 9.8 out of 10 and impacts SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) — an IT service management platform used by many large organizations to handle ticketing, asset tracking and other tasks.

"We will protect [children] from the digital Wild West," Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez reportedly said in remarks at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

The 60-year-old detainee, a Polish national, worked in the Ministry of National Defense’s strategy and planning department, including on military modernization projects, officials said. He was arrested at his workplace at the ministry’s headquarters in Warsaw.

The cameras will stay off until the Mountain View City Council can discuss how to handle the matter at a February 24 meeting, Police Chief Mike Canfield said in a letter to the community.