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Grok — which is owned by Elon Musk’s xAI — will be forced to pay damages of €100,000 ($115,000) a day if it does not comply, according to the ruling.

Russian media outlets and Telegram channels have circulated allegations that the Baltic states opened their airspace to Ukrainian drones targeting Russian territory — a claim Riga strongly denied.

Hambardzum Minasyan appeared in an Austin federal court on Tuesday and was indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, conspiracy to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

A senior U.S. official accused China’s government of implicitly backing Chinese criminal syndicates running cyber scam compounds across Southeast Asia and of exploiting a crisis that has resulted in billions being stolen from Americans each year.

A pro-Ukrainian hacker group known as Bearlyfy has carried out more than 70 cyberattacks against Russian companies over the past year and is now escalating its campaign with newly developed ransomware tools, researchers have found.

The age filters will be turned on by default, meaning that all users — including adults — will have to prove their age via credit card and other payment methods on file or by submitting an ID to be scanned.

The European Commission opened an investigation into Snapchat and warned four pornographic platforms they could face penalties for failing to follow child safety laws.

Russian authorities have detained a suspected administrator of LeakBase, a major online marketplace for stolen data, weeks after U.S. and European law enforcement agencies carried out a global crackdown on the platform.

The British government sanctioned Xinbi, a Chinese-language cryptocurrency marketplace accused of enabling large-scale online fraud and human exploitation, in a move targeting the financial infrastructure behind global scam networks.

With CISA’s reduced capacity during the shutdown, Andersen said, the agency is largely limited to responding to imminent threats, protecting life and property, sharing critical vulnerability and incident information and keeping its 24/7 operation center up and running.

The incident highlights growing concerns over the security of the open-source software supply chain, where widely-used tools maintained by small teams can provide a gateway into thousands of organizations if compromised.

A ransomware attack has disrupted digital systems at Spain’s Port of Vigo, forcing authorities to disconnect parts of its network and temporarily manage cargo operations manually.

Services at Centros de Servicios al Conductor (CESCO) — the agency responsible for issuing licenses, permits and vehicle registrations in Puerto Rico — cancelled all appointments due to a cyber incident.

Ilya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, pleaded guilty to managing a botnet that other cybercriminals used to break into corporate systems and deploy ransomware.

The U.K. government will try out various social media restrictions on certain families as part of a pilot program as it mulls a potential social media ban for teens.

Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre warned that a rise in so-called “vibe coding” could reshape the software-as-a-service industry while introducing new cybersecurity risks if organizations fail to adapt.

The medical device firm Stryker said it is ramping production lines back up two weeks after alleged Iranian cyber actors wiped more than 200,000 company devices.

The author of a new book on surveillance discusses how an upcoming Supreme Court case could limit what data police can dig up showing individuals’ locations.

The Federal Communications Commission has banned all consumer routers produced outside of the U.S. from being imported unless their manufacturers obtain an exemption due to what the agency called an “unacceptable risk" to national security.

The incident responders noted that there was no evidence that data was exfiltrated during the intrusion — an unusual development considering U.S. intelligence agencies previously said Pay2Key attacks were largely conducted for information theft.