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A coalition of 42 state attorneys general reached an $18 million settlement with 23andMe for cybersecurity failings that led to a data breach.

Authorities said Wednesday that the group operated like a legitimate international business since at least 2021, running about two dozen call centers across several countries and employing more than 700 people who posed as professional financial advisers.

The Los Angeles Police Department is the latest U.S. municipal agency to rethink its relationship to ALPR company Flock Safety.

Vulnerability counts have been surging this year, and Microsoft's mammoth disclosure this week of 622 bugs is larger than the three previous months combined.

The Russians face multiple charges for allegedly providing cybercriminals with infrastructure and tech support through the St. Petersburg-based business Media Land and a sister company, ML Cloud.

The defendant's lawyer told Finnish media that he does not know where his client is but believes Kivimäki is outside Finland.

Dutch intelligence officials report that at least one Russian agency is compromising internet-connected cameras across Europe to spy on military logistics and Ukrainian personnel.

The retailer said the incident did not affect its online shopping platform itself but involved a separately stored customer database maintained by a third-party provider. According to notifications sent to Lidl's German, Belgian and Dutch customers on Friday, the attackers briefly accessed the file and exfiltrated part of its contents.

“While ultimately it is up to parents to decide when children get their first smartphones, what we already have is a consensus that there needs to be a start date for the age children can join social media,” says European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen.

The allies blamed Center 16, the FSB’s signals intelligence arm, for acts of attempted cyber sabotage targeting Poland’s energy sector and water treatment facilities, alongside “a wide range of malicious cyber activities with growing severity.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.