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The Treasury Department said Cambodian senator Kok An was being sanctioned alongside 28 others involved in his scam center operation.

CISA said the unnamed department was infected with malware called “FIRESTARTER” that allowed the hackers to return to the Cisco device in March without re-exploiting the original vulnerabilities.

The campaigns exploited a weakness in telecom infrastructure to allow the unnamed vendors to secretly pose as real cellular providers and pinpoint victims’ locations.

The group, which researchers at cybersecurity firm ESET named GopherWhisper, has been active since at least November 2023 and was discovered in January 2025 after investigators found a previously unknown backdoor on the network of a Mongolian government institution.

Sean Plankey reportedly told colleagues that he needed to focus on assuaging concerns about his Coast Guard work that had led Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) to block his nomination.

The bill, known as the SECURE Data Act, is backed by top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce and Financial Services committees.

Researchers said the group stole up to $12 million in cryptocurrency in the first three months of 2026 through malware attacks on personal devices.

Hackers deployed a previously unknown wiper malware against Venezuela’s energy and utilities sector in an attack that appears to have been designed to destroy systems.

French authorities have arrested a suspected hacker believed to be behind dozens of data breaches targeting public institutions, sports federations and private organizations across the country.

Dutch intelligence says the threat from Beijing is now largely going unmet and is so sophisticated its operations are regularly missed by intelligence agencies and cybersecurity defenders.

Britain's cybersecurity chief warned Tuesday that the country is handling four nationally significant cyber incidents every week, with the majority now traced back to hostile foreign governments rather than criminal hackers.

The Telegram probe was launched after the Canadian Centre for Child Protection shared information that allegedly showed CSAM is present and shared on the platform, according to a press release from Ofcom.

The measures target Euromore, a media outlet that EU officials say amplifies Kremlin narratives, and the Foundation for the Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad (Pravfond), a Moscow-funded group accused of promoting propaganda aligned with Russia’s foreign policy.

Vercel released a statement acknowledging a breach and warning a “limited subset of customers” that their Vercel credentials were compromised.

Ukrainian authorities have dismantled a so-called “bot farm” that police say was supplying thousands of fake social media accounts to Russian intelligence services for use in disinformation campaigns against Ukraine.

The regulator fined Poste Italiane SpA, the postal service provider, €6.6 million ($7.8 million) and Postepay SpA, a digital payments subsidiary, €5.9 million ($7 million) for allegedly illegally processing millions of users’ personal data.

A theft of nearly $300 million worth of cryptocurrency has been attributed to hackers from North Korea, as the industry grapples with the fallout of a wide-ranging incident involving multiple prominent platforms.

Musk, the billionaire owner of X, and the company's chief executive Linda Yaccarino had both been summoned for voluntary interviews with police on April 20 in Paris.

A cyberattack targeting a French government website used to manage identity documents and driver’s licenses may have exposed users’ personal data, the Interior Ministry said.

The decentralized social network said the incident began on April 15, when the company received reports of intermittent outages affecting the app.