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Eighteen members of Russia's GRU have been sanctioned by the British government for various operations, including military strikes that killed hundreds of civilians in Ukraine.

The Chinese government could use its information-sharing laws to force the Huawei to assist Beijing’s vast intelligence apparatus, Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Rick Crawford, both Republicans from Arkansas, wrote.

Novabev Group, the Russian maker of Beluga Vodka and other brands, had to stop shipments and temporarily close stores in its WineLab subsidiary after a ransomware attack.

Investors had accused the executives of ignoring problems at Cambridge Analytica, a now defunct political consulting firm which allegedly improperly collected data about millions of Facebook users.

Officials confirmed the incident on Thursday but claimed the hackers only defaced the website and did not penetrate servers that stored any data.

Armenian national Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, 33, was extradited from Ukraine last month and now faces up to five years in prison for his role in Ryuk, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

A former National Crime Agency investigator who worked on the Silk Road case was sentenced to more than five years in prison for stealing 50 bitcoins seized in that operation.

The Higher School of Economics (HSE), a leading Russian institution, said the two-year course will focus on international corporate compliance and business ethics, and will be taught in both Russian and English.

The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that the ban will be part of a broader package of policies to encourage an expansion of submarine telecommunications infrastructure while protecting it from “foreign adversary threats.”

The value of losses to crypto thefts has soared this year to more than $2 billion over the first six months, the blockchain analytics company Chainalysis found.

European and U.S. law enforcement have disrupted the operations of a pro-Russian hacker group known for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks against Ukraine and its allies.

A prominent Cambodian tycoon was the subject of multiple raids conducted Tuesday by Thai police, who accused him of being involved in cyber scams.

Google researchers reported on a malware campaign against end-of-life SonicWall appliances, noting that the attackers were good at covering their tracks.

The group, known as “Diskstation,” is accused of encrypting victims’ systems and demanding large cryptocurrency ransoms to restore access to their data, Italy’s Postal and Cybersecurity Police said in a statement.

The measure aims to prevent compromise of U.S. telecommunications through strengthening network security by establishing “baseline cybersecurity requirements for vendors of telecommunications services” to the country’s 18 intelligence agencies, according to a summary of the bill released by the panel.

Ukraine's military intelligence agency confirmed that it participated with two volunteer hacking groups in an operation against Gaskar Group, a Russian drone company.

Cameron John Wagenius faces up to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud, extortion and aggravated identity theft in data breaches involving major corporations.

On Tuesday, Google said Big Sleep managed to discover CVE-2025-6965 — a critical security flaw that Google said was “only known to threat actors and was at risk of being exploited.”

“The good news" is that China's Volt Typhoon hacking campaign "really failed," an NSA official said at a cyber conference in New York. An FBI official also described an incident of "true cyberwarfare" with the Flax Typhoon group.

A statement from Louis Vuitton South Korea said the breach involved names, contact information and other data provided by customers. No financial information was included in the breach.