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The ShinyHunters extortion group hijacked the dark web leak site of the prolific Cl0p ransomware gang, according to material posted on the site over the weekend.

The agreement between LinkedIn, ProAPIs and joint business operator Netswift also requires the firms to stop selling and transferring the data, no longer access LinkedIn through fake accounts and delete the data that was scraped, according to a senior LinkedIn executive.

A report published Wednesday said that as of July, Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan and Argentina took meaningful steps to respond to allegations involving North Korea listed in an October study.

Over the past year, Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said it investigated several incidents involving the group at Russian businesses.

The FBI and Defense Department partnered with Japan’s National Police Agency and law enforcement agencies in Australia and Germany on a new advisory about “WaterPlum” — a group of cyber actors allegedly stealing cryptocurrency from job applicants by posing as AI or blockchain companies.

The proposal, known as the EU KIDS Act, would block social media platforms from offering accounts to children younger than 13 and establish a bloc-wide minimum age of 15 for account creation.

Alleged Chinese hackers are breaking into government agencies across Latin America using a new backdoor that researchers are calling “SparroWocky.”

An anonymous hacking group claimed to have broken into computer systems connected to Russia’s election infrastructure just days before the country begins voting for a new parliament.

Congressional sources say they view the deaths of U.S. Cyber Command personnel as an inflection point, especially as the Pentagon’s appetite for cyber capabilities grows following successful contributions to high-profile missions against Iran and Venezuela.

An Israeli influence-for-hire company trained Angolan government officials to run online influence operations, including by creating fake social media personas and media outlets, researchers found.

“It's really complicated, and I wouldn't want to do something in a lame duck session to do it quickly and not get it right,” said House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie about the FRONTIER Act.

U.S. personnel boarded an oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico to “ensure integrity of the vessel’s operational and information technology systems," after an apparent cyberattack, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Oslo-based Telenor potentially enabled crimes against humanity and violated sanctions in its dealings with the military regime that took over Myanmar in 2021, Norwegian authorities said.

According to the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Iran has used this and similar cyber activity to “support the repression of individuals who are seen as a threat to the regime, such as dissidents, activists and journalists.”

Ihor Klymenko, who has experience in law enforcement and as interior minister, will run Ukraine's National Cybersecurity Coordination Center.

Houston-based CenterPoint Energy notified federal regulators about an incident that exposed some customer data on the dark web.

China's spy chief identified Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber as signs of what he called a “disruptive upgrade” in cyber capabilities, increasing the speed and potential weaponization of vulnerability discovery and malware development.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg held a press conference on Monday touting the takedown of the sites, which hosted AI-generated videos of more than 1,200 people. The sites allowed users to use the faces and bodies of real people to create illegal pornography.

Prosecutors unsealed a 2021 indictment accusing the five men of conducting lucrative romance scams that stole thousands of dollars from more than 100 people.

The pro-Ukraine hacktivist group Hacking Cat has evolved from carrying out website defacements and data leaks to more sophisticated and destructive attacks on Russian targets, researchers said.