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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI and others are supporting Nevada as it recovers from a cyberattack that has affected a range of state government services.

German prosecutors charged a man with carrying out a damaging cyberattack on Rosneft Deutschland, the German subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned oil giant, in the weeks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Netherlands announced on Thursday that it was targeted by a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign tracked as Salt Typhoon and RedMike that has been compromising critical infrastructure globally.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions targeting key players in North Korea’s ongoing scheme to get its citizens hired as IT workers at American companies.

Flock acknowledged in a Monday blog post that it has engaged in “limited pilots” with CBP and Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement division of the Department of Homeland Security. It said the partnerships were meant to bolster the federal agencies’ efforts to fight human trafficking and fentanyl distribution.

Hackers are targeting American industrial firms by contacting them through their website forms, posing as potential business partners before infecting them with malware.

The three companies were accused of providing “cyber-related products and services to China’s intelligence services, including multiple units in the People’s Liberation Army and Ministry of State Security” since at least 2021, according to the advisory.

Spanish police have arrested a university student suspected of hacking the local government’s education management system to alter grades and gain access to professors’ emails.

The U.S. State Department said it worked with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs in Japan and South Korea to organize the forum, which had more than 130 attendees from freelance work platforms, payment service providers, cryptocurrency companies, AI firms and more.

The governor added that the state is working with local, tribal and federal partners to restore services, and is “using temporary routing and operational workarounds to maintain public access where it is feasible."

A senior Russian official said the government is considering blocking the video conferencing service Google Meet after brief disruptions in the country late last week.

More than one million customers of Farmers Insurance and its subsidiaries were impacted by a cyberattack on a third-party vendor.

The 34-year-old suspect, identified only by his surname Jeon, was taken into custody last Friday and appeared in court on Sunday for a pretrial detention hearing, according to the Seoul police.

The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) experienced a cyber incident that is affecting its Mobility transit service for people with disabilities.

Earlier this month court officials publicly acknowledged recent digital attacks “of a sophisticated and persistent nature on its case management system” had prompted them to boost their online defenses.

The tech manufacturer Data I/O reported a ransomware attack to federal regulators, writing that the incident has taken down critical operational systems.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave civilian federal agencies until September 11 to implement a fix for CVE-2025-43300 — a vulnerability affecting popular brands of Apple phones, iPads and Macbooks.

U.S. tech companies were warned they could face action from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for complying with the European Union and United Kingdom’s regulations about the content shared on their platforms.

Authorities across Africa have dismantled large-scale cybercrime and fraud networks, arresting over three months more than 1,200 people suspected of carrying out ransomware attacks, online scams, and business email compromise schemes, Interpol said.

A Houston resident was sentenced to four years in prison for intentionally installing malicious code on his employer's computer systems, which he activated when his role was terminated.