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7/10/26, 7:30 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Europe revives law allowing big tech to scan for CSAM

The law known as Chat Control 2.0 passed in the European Parliament, permitting companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft to scan users' messages to hunt for CSAM.

7/10/26, 5:01 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Ryuk operator pleads guilty; Blackcat/AlphV conspirator gets nearly 6-year sentence

One man accused of deploying Ryuk ransomware pleaded guilty Wednesday in an Oregon federal court to conspiracy and computer fraud, while another man received a 70-month federal prison sentence in a Florida court for helping the Blackcat/AlphV gang extort multiple victims.

7/10/26, 4:50 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

License plate cameras may be next target after Supreme Court reins in location tracking

If a warrant is ultimately needed for ALPR searches, experts say, it would radically limit how the networks of cameras can be used and would change modern policing.

7/10/26, 1:20 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

China, India ran separate spying campaigns against same Pakistani police force

The activity, in some cases breaching the exact same systems, ran between February 2024 and April 2026 and centered on the force responsible for the country’s southwestern province that has been the site of a long-running separatist insurgency.

7/9/26, 11:00 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Dutch police trace Odido telco cyberattack to suspected local accomplice

Dutch police said Thursday they had uncovered evidence suggesting that Dutch criminals were involved in the cyberattack on telecom provider Odido that exposed the personal data of more than 6 million customers earlier this year.

7/9/26, 2:20 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Latvian forestry company still restoring systems weeks after ransomware attack

A foreign, financially motivated group was responsible for a cyberattack on state-owned forestry company Latvijas Valsts Mezi (LVM), officials said.

7/9/26, 1:20 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

NSA revives 'Tailored Access Operations' name for elite hacking unit

NSA last week changed the moniker of its Office of Computer Network Operations (CNO) back to Tailored Access Operations (TAO), a name that is sure to elicit nostalgia among the broader digital community for a group with roots in the early 1990s.

7/9/26, 1:10 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

EU takes member states to court over unimplemented cybersecurity law

Ireland, Spain, France and the Netherlands are more than 20 months late in transposing the NIS2 Directive for the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.

7/8/26, 8:20 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Greek victims file lawsuit against Intellexa over Predator spyware

The use of the spyware came to light in 2022, with traces of Predator found on dozens of phones. The scandal led to the resignation of Greece’s intelligence service chief and the prime minister’s chief of staff.

7/8/26, 8:14 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Cash App owner to pay $45 million to settle allegations of lax security

State attorneys general announced the bipartisan agreement with Block, Inc. on Wednesday, saying that the company incorrectly promised users that Cash App offered the same protections as a bank.

7/8/26, 4:55 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Taiwan charges two businessmen over alleged role in Chinese espionage campaign

A company based in Taiwan was leasing out accounts on the popular LINE messaging app to Chinese spies, according to prosecutors, who charged two men in the alleged scheme.

7/8/26, 2:20 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Former UK privacy chief preparing legal action against woman who reported him, minister says

Liz Kendall, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, said she was “absolutely appalled” at the findings of “sexual harassment and bullying” made by an independent investigation at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

7/8/26, 1:45 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Spain arrests alleged supporter of pro-Russian hacktivist groups after FBI tip

An FBI tip linked a man living in Spain to the hacking groups CyberArmy of Russia Reborn (CARR), Z-Pentest and NoName057(16).

7/8/26, 1:03 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

EU unveils cyber plan to reduce reliance on foreign AI systems

The communication, adopted in Strasbourg on July 7, is built around three pillars: making frontier AI “safe, accessible and deployable” for European cybersecurity, preparing the EU’s cyber ecosystem and scaling European AI capabilities.

7/8/26, 12:31 PM · KrebsOnSecurity

Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform they operated under assumed names.

7/7/26, 4:05 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Supreme Court allows Texas app law requiring age verification to take effect

A student advocacy organization and tech trade group had appealed to the high court to stay the Texas App Store Accountability Act on an emergency basis until the lower court rules.

7/7/26, 3:31 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Britain plans to build autonomous AI 'Cyber Shield' to defend nation

The capability, called Cyber Shield, is designed to counter a threat the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said could see attackers “move at machine speed and greater scale, reducing opportunities for detection and response.”

7/7/26, 2:45 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Major Japanese telco says cyberattack exposed 12 million emails

The company said the breach affected an email system used to manage customer email accounts, webmail services and email storage for five Japanese internet service providers.

7/7/26, 1:10 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

UK cyber pledge draws only a handful of top firms despite ministerial appeal

Those that did sign include large firms such as Aviva, the London Stock Exchange Group and Marks & Spencer, which lost hundreds of millions of pounds in a cyberattack last year, as well as small cybersecurity consultancies.

7/6/26, 8:55 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Canadian spy agency reports hacking three criminal groups in 2025

A ransomware-as-a-service gang, an online foreign extremist group and drug traffickers were separately the targets of offensive operations in 2025, according to Canada's Communications Security Establishment.

7/6/26, 8:35 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Attackers vote themselves $20 million in BONK cryptocurrency

BonkDAO said in a social media post that it was the victim of a “malicious governance proposal,” or an attack in which holders of a large amount of BONK used that leverage to vote more coins into their wallets.

7/6/26, 6:03 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Major medical device manufacturer notifies nearly 4 million of breach

Information like Social Security numbers and health-related data was accessed, but the company said it had “no evidence that impacted information has been publicly posted or exposed on the internet.”

7/6/26, 4:40 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Japanese teen arrested over cyberattack that disrupted anime streaming service

The unnamed student, who lives in a city near Tokyo, allegedly exploited a flaw in a subscription-based anime streaming platform to fraudulently cancel more than 46,000 user subscriptions.

7/6/26, 1:20 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Ukrainian media outlets now among 'priority targets' for Russian hackers

A top Ukrainian security official described two previously unreported attacks on TV media organizations and said Russia has ramped up hacking activities against the industry.

7/3/26, 5:00 AM · The Record by Recorded Future

Spyware found on phone of European Parliament member probing it

Stelios Kouloglou, formerly a member of the European Parliament's committee investigation abuses of commercial spyware, was twice infected with Pegasus while serving, researchers said.

7/2/26, 8:32 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Launch of UK's National Cyber Action Plan delayed amid Labour leadership crisis

The plan had been due for publication on Monday, the sources said. It has been postponed amid the uncertainty over the governing Labour Party’s leadership contest, which opens July 9.

7/2/26, 7:27 PM · KrebsOnSecurity

FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software wi

7/2/26, 4:50 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Supreme Court decision threatens EU-US data transfer agreement

In a Tuesday letter, Max Schrems, the founder of the Vienna-based privacy advocacy organization noyb, told European officials he plans to sue to invalidate the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) that allows for the transfer of personal data from the EU to U.S. companies.

7/1/26, 8:13 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Teen suspect in Scattered Spider hacks is extradited to US

A complaint unsealed this week accuses a 19-year-old of participating in incidents including a breach of a "luxury-jewelry retailer" in 2025.

7/1/26, 1:16 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

US lifts export controls on Anthropic’s frontier cybersecurity AI models

Anthropic said export controls on certain models had been lifted after the company came to a series of agreements with the government.

7/1/26, 1:10 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Japanese insurer, brewer, manufacturer and telecom disclose cyber breaches

Aflac's Tokyo arm and brewer Sapporo are among the major Japanese companies to recently notify the public about data breaches.

6/30/26, 7:05 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

CIA chief highlights major shifts in agency’s tech approach

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said artificial intelligence capabilities are "akin to digital nuclear weapons.”

6/30/26, 4:23 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

House passes kids’ online safety bill, but Senate approval unlikely

The Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act passed with bipartisan support by a 267-117 margin, winning the two-thirds majority needed to greenlight the legislation under a process that speeds up a bill’s path to a vote but requires more than a simple majority.

6/30/26, 1:52 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

An intelligence budget 'super user' job is now in the hands of Russ Vought

Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assumed hands-on responsibility for overseeing the spending plans of intelligence agencies following the recent departure of Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a senior intelligence official who simultaneously served in multiple roles, including one at OMB.

6/29/26, 6:50 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Justices rule that cellphone location histories are protected by the Fourth Amendment

Police must get a warrant to request geofence data involving individual cellphones, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in what represents a victory for privacy advocates.

6/29/26, 5:10 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

US racks up about 400 wins over illegal World Cup streaming sites

The World Cup’s organizing body, FIFA, helped identify hundreds of domains taken down in an action organized by the U.S., along with the help of U.S. broadcaster NBC Universal and other entities.

6/29/26, 3:20 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

US posts $10 million reward over Russian cyber campaign targeting Signal, WhatsApp

Russia-linked hacking groups tracked as UNC5792 and UNC4221 have socially engineered their way into the messaging accounts of government officials.

6/29/26, 1:40 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Ukraine to use seized crypto from cybercrime group to buy war bonds

Ukraine's Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA), which manages property seized in criminal proceedings, said more than $8.3 million in cryptocurrency had been transferred to its official digital wallet following a court order.

6/26/26, 1:42 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Russia accuses Apple of ‘political censorship’ after VK apps removed from App Store

Apple removed VK's flagship social network VKontakte, often described as Russia's equivalent of Facebook, along with VK Music, VK Messenger, VK Video, Odnoklassniki and Mail.ru services, including its email application.

6/26/26, 1:30 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Turla group adds more malware to Russia’s espionage efforts against Ukraine

Threat intelligence researchers at Google described StockStay, the latest malware developed by the Russian cyber-espionage group known as Turla.

6/26/26, 1:10 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Russia used social engineering to breach prominent messaging accounts, Ukraine says

Ukraine's SBU described a long-running Russian operation that used fake tech-support workers to persuade people to hand over credentials to their messaging apps.

6/26/26, 12:10 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

FCC votes to toughen rules in bid to better protect undersea cables

In an unprecedented move, the FCC also said it plans to mandate that owners and operators of submarine line terminal equipment (SLTE) be licensed.

6/25/26, 6:47 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

DHS chief says president has met with potential CISA nominee; agency plans to hire 600

Once a new CISA director is in place, the agency will ramp up hiring efforts, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told lawmakers. The White House has not yet announced a nominee.

6/25/26, 2:45 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Another Russian dairy company reportedly disrupted by cyberattack

A dairy products manufacturer in Russia's republic of Bashkortostan is the latest such company to have its operations snarled by a cyberattack.

6/25/26, 12:16 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Ukraine's state postal operator reports app disruption after cyberattack

Ukraine's state-owned postal operator said it was experiencing disruptions to some of its app services due to a suspected cyberattack, but did not say who was behind it.

6/25/26, 12:15 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Russia used Cellebrite phone-hacking tool to crack down on dissident after firm cut off country

The continued use of the powerful data extraction product soon after the company in March 2021 said it would stop working with Russia suggests the firm has been unable to pull back its technology from authoritarian government customers, researchers say.

6/24/26, 8:00 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Three ‘cybercrime as a service’ operations undercut by Microsoft, law enforcement

Microsoft touted its latest action against malware infrastructure as a new approach aimed at the full cybercrime "supply chain." Europol said more than 300 servers were targeted.

6/24/26, 2:15 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

German rail services resume after wireless communications outage

Deutsche Bahn said a nationwide disruption of railway services was tied to a malfunction in its 2G-based GSM-R communications system.

6/24/26, 1:23 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Indian auto giant Bajaj Auto hit by ransomware incident

The company said in a regulatory filing that it became aware of the incident on Tuesday morning and had taken precautionary measures to contain its impact.

6/23/26, 6:45 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Five Eyes agencies sound alarm about AI’s threat to cybersecurity

"The timeline is not years, it is months,” the nations of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance said in a joint alert about the cybersecurity concerns of artificial intelligence.

6/23/26, 6:00 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Feds seize alleged cyber-scam infrastructure connected to Southeast Asian company

The Department of Justice announced the “seizure of a cloud computing account” used by subsidiaries of the Huione Group, a conglomerate severed from the U.S. financial system last year.

6/23/26, 5:10 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Trump directs federal agencies to protect US data from quantum threats

An executive order signed Monday aims to accelerate the government's transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), a new generation of encryption designed to protect data from the powerful quantum computers expected in the future.

6/23/26, 4:12 PM · KrebsOnSecurity

Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial

Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the entity responsible for the public transport network in the Greater London area. The duo were key members of a prolific cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider, and their guilty pleas came on the first day of what was expected to be a six-week trial.

6/23/26, 3:20 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Compromise kids online safety bill unveiled by House leaders, with key omission

The so-called duty of care provision that was excluded would have mandated that online platforms take reasonable measures to prevent specific harms such as suicidal ideation, eating disorders and cyberbullying by changing algorithm and design features.

6/23/26, 1:00 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Two Scattered Spider members plead guilty over cyberattack that crippled London transit

A 20-year-old and an 18-year-old admitted to infiltrating the network of Transport for London in 2024, disrupting public transportation services for months.

6/23/26, 4:00 AM · The Record by Recorded Future

Tata Electronics confirms cyberattack after alleged Apple, Tesla documents appear online

Indian manufacturer Tata Electronics said a recent cybersecurity incident had "no impact" on operations. A cybercrime group had said it stolen confidential documents from the company.

6/22/26, 2:10 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Suspected cyberattack triggers false emergency alerts across parts of Brazil

The incident occurred early Saturday when at least a dozen unauthorized alerts were sent through Brazil's Civil Defense Alert system, a platform designed to warn residents about imminent threats such as floods, landslides and other natural disasters.

6/19/26, 12:57 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Police raid malware network tied to Russia's Evil Corp hacker group

An international operation targeted the SocGholish botnet, which has been linked to the Russia-based cybercrime group Evil Corp.

6/19/26, 11:12 AM · The Record by Recorded Future

UK's information commissioner resigns over ‘inappropriate humour’

Writing on LinkedIn, Edwards said that while he has not agreed with how the investigation into him has been conducted, he has come to accept that his position “has become untenable.”

6/18/26, 7:30 PM · The Record by Recorded Future

Bulgaria allowed surveillance tech firm to sell products to repressive regimes, report says

The nonprofit Human Rights Watch obtained export licensing records covering 2018 through 2023, which show the Bulgarian government allowed the surveillance firm Circles to peddle the tech to law enforcement and intelligence agencies in several countries known for human rights abuses.