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“Russia’s aggressive actions have consequences," Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said after Germany announced a Russian diplomat had been expelled on suspicions of espionage.

The Irish government plans to draft legislation that would make it legal for law enforcement to use spyware, Minister of Justice Jim O’Callaghan said.

The case dates to May 2022, when the court launched a probe into the alleged spying on devices belonging to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Defence Minister Margarita Robles.

Britain’s House of Lords voted by an overwhelming margin to ban children under age 16 from accessing social media, setting up a vote on the law in the House of Commons.

The findings, published by Citizen Lab Thursday, are based on the research institute’s digital forensic analysis of seized phones in four cases and Jordanian court records in three cases.

A vehicle search uncovered a mobile computing system hidden in the trunk and connected to a roof-mounted transmitter disguised as a shark-fin antenna.

A draft proposal released on Tuesday, revising the EU’s Cybersecurity Act and its Network Information Systems Directive, would see member states phase out the use of high-risk suppliers within their critical national infrastructure.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of geofence warrants, which let law enforcement compel companies to provide the location data of cell phones at specific times and places.

British ministers will visit Australia to “learn first-hand from their approach,” the government’s Monday announcement said, alluding to the country’s controversial ban on social media use for children under age 16.

The extension in the $1.2 trillion funding deal is the latest short-term solution in a monthslong saga for CISA 2015, which provides liability protections to encourage private companies to share digital threat information with the federal government.

Hackers are targeting Afghan government employees with phishing emails disguised as official correspondence from the office of the country’s prime minister, researchers found.

British authorities are rolling out Report Fraud, a platform intended to win back public trust over how law enforcement responds to widespread cybercrime and fraud.

The National Cyber Security Centre highlighted the group known as NoName057(16) and other Russia-aligned operations that have targeted U.K. websites.

About 10 minutes of unauthorized video aired on Iranian state television over the weekend, according to multiple reports.

The operator of a cybercrime forum account known as "r1z" could spend up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to selling malware built to break into corporate networks.

Black Basta has been active since at least early 2022 and is believed to be responsible for extorting hundreds of companies, hospitals and public institutions worldwide — including Swiss industrial giant ABB and U.S. healthcare provider Ascension — causing hundreds of millions of dollars in estimated damages.

The nongovernmental Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization, which oversees the country's debt and equity marketplaces as well as some financial institutions, released details about an August 2025 data breach.

The police department said there “is no evidence indicating that APD systems have been compromised or that any APD data has been acquired by the threat actor.”

Chinese hackers successfully breached multiple critical infrastructure organizations in North America over the last year using a combination of compromised credentials and exploitable servers, researchers at Cisco Talos found.

If confirmed, Rudd would take over two entities that have been without a permanent leader since a far-right provocateur initiated a push to force out its last chief and has seemingly sunk a number of other senior officials.