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Court documents said Dream Market was launched in 2013 by Owe Martin Andresen and others before becoming one of the biggest criminal marketplaces online.

The comments come as several European countries, including Spain, Greece, Norway, France, Denmark, Turkey and the Netherlands have said they are considering or are implementing age verification protocols to restrict young teens from accessing social media platforms.

The proposed reforms, outlined in briefing documents published alongside the King’s Speech opening a new parliamentary session, would update the Computer Misuse Act 1990 as part of a broader national security package focused on cybercrime and digital threats.

Five months into 2026, Microsoft has already patched more than 500 vulnerabilities — although the exact monthly count varies depending on whether analysts include Edge, Chromium and fixes shipped earlier in the month.

A spokesperson for the company confirmed the incident but declined to provide specifics on how many factories in North America were impacted. Foxconn has factories in Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Indiana and several across Mexico.

The letter noted that many Americans are unaware that their data is being used to set variable prices, a trend that is particularly pervasive for online shoppers.

West Pharmaceutical Services filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday evening warning customers that a hacker breached the company network on May 4, stole data and encrypted systems.

The report, released by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch on Tuesday, alleges that the European Commission has failed to effectively police member states' surveillance tech sales despite the 2021 implementation of updated bloc-wide export rules designed to rein in the practice.

The company said its agreement with the hackers involved their data being “returned” to them and digital confirmation of data destruction.

In addition to fines, Texas is asking a judge to prevent Netflix from illegally collecting and sharing user data and to mandate that the company no longer use autoplay by default on kids’ profiles.

The router deadline, originally slated for March 1, 2027, has been pushed back to at least January 1, 2029, according to the announcement from the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET).

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) fined South Staffordshire Water £963,900 ($1.3 million) on Monday over an attack by the Cl0p ransomware group that led to the personal data of 633,887 customers and employees being published in August 2022.

The issue was found in the same area of the Linux kernel that produced last month’s Copy Fail bug, and also allows anyone with a basic account on an affected computer to seize full administrative control.

The settlement, announced by California officials Friday, is the largest fine issued under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in its more than five-year history.

Slovakian national Alan Bill, 33, pleaded guilty in January to a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances charge after admitting to his role in running Kingdom Market — a platform used by drug dealers and cybercriminals between March 2021 and December 2023.

A Virginia man was convicted on federal charges Thursday after a jury found him guilty of deleting 96 government databases and stealing an individual’s password, leading their email account to be accessed without permission.

On Thursday, dozens of students took to social media to say they saw a message from a cybercriminal group as they navigated through Canvas, an educational platform created by Instructure that hosts teaching materials, tests, readings and more.

Researchers at Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said they identified overlapping infrastructure and tools used by both groups — including command-and-control systems operating on the same compromised host — suggesting some coordination.

Incident responders from cybersecurity firm Rapid7 published a report about a recent intrusion that initially appeared to be a Chaos ransomware attack but was later discovered to be an attack attributed to MuddyWater, an Iranian APT group tied to the country’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).

The incident underscores the dangers public officials face from doxxing, as well as how easy it has become to find sensitive information online.