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The Treasury Department sanctioned a Russian national and his company for allegedly acquiring eight proprietary cyber tools that were stolen from the defense contractor L3 Harris and sold to "unauthorized" customers.

Over a five-month period, the group, dubbed Diesel Vortex, stole more than 1,600 login credentials from accounts at logistics platforms, which allowed thieves to intercept and divert freight shipments and commit check fraud.

Scott Schelble, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s International Operations Division, told reporters that he recently met with law enforcement officials in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to discuss the region’s scam operations.

"Reddit was using children’s data unlawfully, potentially exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content,” British regulators said in announcing a fine against the platform.

The decentralized finance platform Step Finance said the theft of $40 million from its treasury in late January led the company to decide to wind down operations.

The country’s Cyber Security Council published a statement on Saturday that said they “successfully thwarted organized cyberattacks of a terrorist nature that targeted the country’s digital infrastructure and vital sectors in an attempt to destabilize the nation and disrupt essential services.”

Protecting Ukrainian national security will probably require restrictions on Telegram and other anonymous online platforms as Russia continues to use them to organize sabotage and terrorism, officials said.

Cybersecurity researchers said they saw Medusa attacks launched by members of Lazarus — a well-known North Korean hacking operation housed within the country’s military — against a company in the Middle East and a healthcare organization in the U.S.

The U.K.’s communications regulator fined the porn company 8579 LLC £1.35 million ($1.82 million) for not verifying user ages.

A Russian-speaking threat actor used commercial generative artificial intelligence tools to help compromise more than 600 FortiGate firewall devices across more than 55 countries earlier this year, researchers have found.

Air Côte d'Ivoire did not respond to requests for comment but released a statement on Friday confirming reports that hackers had breached its systems on February 8. Last week, the INC ransomware gang claimed it stole 208 GB of data from the airline.

The joint statement comes on the heels of the Grok AI chatbot creating and sharing millions of images of “nudified” real people.

Russian cyberattacks targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are increasingly focused on collecting intelligence to guide missile strikes rather than immediately disrupting operations, Ukrainian cybersecurity officials said.

Recent ransomware attacks targeting Romania’s critical infrastructure were likely part of a broader Russian hybrid operation aimed at undermining the country’s stability, Romania’s top cybersecurity official said.

In court on Thursday, Catalin Dragomir pleaded guilty to obtaining information from a protected computer and one count of aggravated identity theft.

A Ukrainian man was sentenced to five years in U.S. prison for his years-long role in a scheme that helped North Koreans get illegally hired in IT roles at 40 American companies.

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has filed an appeal at the European Union’s General Court challenging a €120 million ($141 million) fine imposed by the European Commission.

Russia’s intensifying cyberattacks, sabotage and covert influence operations across Europe show the Kremlin is preparing for a prolonged confrontation with the West, Dutch intelligence agencies said.

The National Bank of Ukraine announced that attackers may have gained access to users’ personal data, including names, phone numbers, email addresses and delivery addresses, in a recent cyberattack.

The company said it detected unusual activity within its IT environment on Sunday and activated incident response protocols and isolated the impacted systems.