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Both men charged with co-creating the dark web marketplace Empire Market have now pleaded guilty to federal drug conspiracy charges, closing the book on one of the major cybercrime cases of the early 2020s.

RAMP was used by Russian, Chinese and English-speaking cybercriminals and particularly catered to ransomware groups and their affiliates.

FTC Commissioner Mark Meador framed the issue through the lens of child safety, citing statistics showing increases in self-harm among children in the digital era.

Police raids led to the arrests of three Hungarians and one Romanian suspected of swatting and doxxing incidents, authorities said.

Adding to previous research about an operation against Poland's electrical grid, analysts at Dragos say it affected dozens of facilities and disrupted operational technology.

The government must do more to actively disrupt and deter foreign cyber and hybrid threats, U.K. ministers were told at at a parliamentary hearing.

A Virginia federal judge ruled that the warrantless use of Flock automated license plate cameras in Norfolk, Virginia, is constitutional and dismissed a case seeking to eradicate them.

WhatsApp is rolling out a new security feature designed to curb spyware that will block attachments and media from people not in a user’s contacts list.

In 2025, Chinese-language organizations laundered on average $44 million in illicit crypto each day, amounting to $16.1 billion.

The Justice Department has said that between February 2024 and December 2025, the gang stole at least $5.4 million from at least 63 ATMs, most of which belonged to credit unions.

The company said in a brief statement that it takes consumer privacy and data security seriously and is “actively assessing the situation,” but offered few details about the scope of the alleged breach or whether customer information may have been exposed.

Building and car alarm systems managed by Russian company Delta have been disrupted by a cyberattack blamed on a "hostile foreign state."

Google has agreed to pay $68 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging its voice-activated assistant illegally recorded and shared the plaintiffs’ private conversations with third parties without their consent.

The Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear a case stemming from the use of a Facebook tracking pixel to monitor the streaming habits of the user of a sports website.

A London judge said there was a "compelling basis" to conclude that Saudi Arabia was behind spyware infections aimed at YouTuber and regime critic Ghanem Al-Masarir.

A major cyberattack that nearly cut electricity to half-a-million people in Poland last year was reportedly carried out by the Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm, which likely attempted to knock out systems using wiper malware.

Police seized devices and cryptocurrency in multiple raids aimed at an alleged assassins-for-hire platform, Romanian authorities said.

A new investigation of X and its Grok bot will determine whether the company "treated rights of European citizens — including those of women and children — as collateral damage of its service," EU officials said.

A notice published Friday by state-run Xinhua News Agency said the two men — Zhang Youxia, the country’s most senior uniformed military officer, and Liu Zhenli, a top operational commander — have been placed under investigation following deliberation by the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee.

Germany's Dresden State Art Collections network said it was able to keep facilities open and protect artworks while responding to a cyberattack against large portions of its digital infrastructure.