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A federal jury awarded plaintiffs suing Google $425 million in damages, holding that by collecting the data of users who had switched off an app activity-tracking feature, the tech giant invaded the privacy of millions.

A former information security professor with more than 25 years in the Ukrainian armed forces, Oleksandr Potii is blunt about Moscow’s capabilities: “We see that Russia’s technical level is high and its potential is strong. We cannot underestimate them."

Google has been penalized €325 million ($379 million) and clothing retailer Shein has been ordered to pay €150 million ($175 million) for not getting proper consent from users for advertising cookies, France's CNIL said.

Cloud storage and remote operation can expose critical sectors to Chinese espionage, warned the Czech Republic's NÚKIB, "making trust in the reliability of the provider absolutely crucial."

A trade group for media giants said it worked with Egyptian authorities to shut down Streameast, a website known for pirating broadcasts of major sports leagues.

Ten-year extensions of a threat information sharing law and a cybersecurity grant program for states and localities won bipartisan approval in the House Homeland Security Committee.

The complaint alleges that the toy manufacturer Apitor published a privacy policy saying that it complied with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, but in reality violated the law by collecting the location data from children without parental consent.

Ukraine’s security service is accusing the country’s anti-corruption agencies of seeking “revenge” by bringing charges against Illia Vitiuk, the former head of the agency’s cybersecurity unit.

Multiple tech firms have publicly detailed how incidents involving the third-party Salesloft Drift tool have exposed customer data.

In October 2024, Amazon disrupted another APT29 operation that attempted to use phishing domains impersonating AWS.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced that Nicholas Andersen has taken over as the executive assistant director for cybersecurity.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Disney has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations that it collected personal data from children watching YouTube videos without parental notification or consent.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said his office has made significant progress in recovering from an August 11 cyberattack, and it did not pay a ransom to the intruders.

WhatsApp believes the vulnerability could have been combined with a separate OS-level vulnerability on Apple devices to potentially launch sophisticated attacks against “specific targeted users."

A senior Moscow official said the city hired several hackers who previously launched a cyberattack against the capital’s digital education platform.

Staff at the company's plant in Halewood, near Liverpool, were sent an email early on Monday morning and told not to report for work, according to the Liverpool Echo. The shutdown is expected to continue into Wednesday, the newspaper reported.

Last week, a contract worth €10 million had been awarded to the Spanish multinational Telefónica to use Huawei kit to upgrade the RedIRIS network, effectively more than 16,000km of infrastructure.

In a post mortem of the incident, Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming said the city’s accounts payable department had failed to implement corrective measures after previous incidents of fraud and did not have proper protections in place to verify supplier details.

The ransomware ecosystem continues to splinter, with new gangs proliferating in the wake of law enforcement takedowns that have scattered affiliates and prompted criminal rebrands.

The incident began on July 28 and was discovered two days later, TransUnion told the Maine attorney general. A separate filing in Texas shows that Social Security numbers were among the leaked information.