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A cyber-espionage group has been targeting Russian government agencies and companies in the aviation industry to steal sensitive geospatial data.

The latest House action came after the Senate declared the previous bill dead on arrival because it included a ban on the Federal Reserve’s ability to issue a digital currency. Instead, the upper chamber approved a 45-day extension by unanimous consent.

In an advisory this week, FBI officials said cyber actors have spent the last two years breaking into the systems of brokers and carriers — allowing them to pose as victim companies and post fraudulent listings on freight delivery message boards.

On Tuesday, Zambia’s Minister of Technology and Science offered the first hint that the conference would be cancelled, telling a Zambian news outlet that participants’ security clearances were incomplete and that the government has concerns about the conference’s “dialogue.”

Adam Cassady, who was nominated last month to helm the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, was approved by a vote of 17-5.

The minor was taken into police custody on April 25 on suspicion of involvement in a data breach affecting the National Agency for Secure Documents (ANTS), which processes applications for passports, national identity cards, residence permits and driver’s licenses.

The bill, which passed 235-191, would renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for three years.

The Justice Department said the operation began last year following “numerous” victim complaints to the FBI by U.S. victims who lost millions through cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes.

The platforms allegedly flouted the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA) by “failing to diligently identify, assess and mitigate the risks of minors under 13 years old accessing their services,” the commission said.

Swiss and German law enforcement have arrested 10 suspected members of the Nigerian criminal network Black Axe, including a regional leader believed to oversee operations in Southern Europe.

Army Gen. Joshua Rudd told lawmakers “we are postured and ready to support as required or tasked, making sure that we safeguard our elections.”

The hackers did not access video content, user logins or payment card information, and there was no disruption to Vimeo’s services,

Police said on Monday the victims included both Ukrainian and foreign players whose accounts contained valuable digital items, rare equipment and in-game currency purchased with real money.

The aim of the campaigns was to steal credentials and likely enable “follow-on operations in the interest of the Chinese government,” the report said.

Privacy advocates had worried that the high court would rule that geofencing does not qualify as a constitutionally protected search, opening the door to much broader use of warrantless reverse searches of all types.

State officials said they observed overseas criminals carrying out government impersonation or tech support cons, as well as romance and pig butchering scams using cryptocurrency ATMs.

A California man was sentenced to more than five years in prison for his role in supporting a cybercriminal organization that stole about $260 million worth of cryptocurrency from victims.

The operation, identified by the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), was part of Spamouflage, a long-running influence network linked to Beijing.

A Chinese national accused of being a member of a state-backed hacking group that allegedly broke into systems to steal COVID-19 vaccine information has been extradited to the U.S. from Milan.

Hackers are impersonating Microsoft Teams help desk workers to trick victims into installing data-stealing malware, researchers found.