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A Houston resident was sentenced to four years in prison for intentionally installing malicious code on his employer's computer systems, which he activated when his role was terminated.

A Florida judge ignored prosecutors’ request for an eight-year sentence and gave Noah Michael Urban 10 years in prison with three years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay $13 million in restitution to more than 30 victims.

A Russian cyber-espionage group is increasingly targeting unpatched Cisco networking devices through a vulnerability first discovered in 2018, the FBI warned.

The United Kingdom imposed a new tranche of sanctions targeting financial institutions and cryptocurrency networks in Kyrgyzstan that are accused of facilitating Russian sanctions evasion.

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been charged with running a powerful botnet-for-hire service used to launch hundreds of thousands of cyberattacks worldwide, the U.S. Justice Department said.

The Russian platform Investment Projects said it is working to restore its infrastructure following a cyberattack claimed by the pro-Ukraine group Cyber Anarchy Squad.

The company said no critical data was accessed, but the hacker "gained access to one of our IT systems that contains the following data: name, first name, telephone number, SIM card number, PUK code, tariff plan.”

The Business Council of New York State, which works with more than 3,000 organizations, told regulators in multiple states that it suffered a cyberattack in February.

North Korea-linked hackers were seen targeting more than a dozen embassies in Seoul with phishing emails.

The Indiana-based pharmaceutical company Inotiv discovered a cybersecurity incident earlier this month and found the hackers had encrypted certain systems.

The United Kingdom is backing down from a controversial legal demand targeting Apple, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claimed on social media.

Hackers are disguising a powerful strain of malware as a ChatGPT desktop application in preparation for ransomware attacks, Microsoft said.

Bragg Gaming Group said on Monday that it “believes that the data breach was limited to Bragg’s internal computer environment” based on its preliminary investigation.

Thai police found a portable SMS blaster capable of sending barrages of scam texts inside of a Suzuki — at least the second such seizure in Bangkok in recent weeks.

Russia-based cybersecurity firm F6 said the attacks began in April and infected devices with Kinsing and XMRig malware, tools commonly used to mine the cryptocurrency Monero.

The human resources software company Workday announced that some customer information was obtained in a social engineering attack.

The London-based tech and telecom company Colt Technology Services confirmed that a cyberattack earlier this week caused technical issues that it is still addressing.

A new report described how criminals use “ghost-tapping” — when stolen payment card details are uploaded onto a burner phone and used in-person to purchase goods.

The Treasury Department added the cryptocurrency exchange Grinex and other entities to existing sanctions against Garantex, a Russian platform seized earlier this year.

Most of the stolen funds were siphoned in Ethereum, with more than $38.6 million taken out of the platform. The other $10 million was spread across multiple cryptocurrencies, according to security firm PeckShield.