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A federal appeals court panel voted 2-1 on Wednesday against a petition from industry groups, who argued that the 2024 rules exceeded the FCC’s statutory authority.

Staff were alerted to the data breach on Monday, as CBC News reported based on an internal email that explained the threat actor had accessed a database “containing information used to manage computers and mobile devices.”

Researchers observed a threat actor advancing Russian interests by targeting state organizations and an energy supplier in Georgia and Moldova.

New York's attorney general filed a lawsuit accusing the Zelle payment system of not doing enough to fight fraud, echoing allegations that the Biden administration had made against the platform's operator.

The U.S. and foreign law enforcement partners seized assets — including cryptocurrency and cash, vehicles, real estate and cryptocurrency mining equipment — valued at over $450 million from the men.

The office of Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday experienced multiple days of outages related to a cyberattack. He called it "a frustrating situation."

An urgent patch has been released for two bugs affecting the Matrix messaging protocol used by some governments for secure communications.

The hacker group behind the campaign used methods similar to those of the China-linked group Earth Baxia, known for targeting government agencies in the Asia-Pacific region.

The DEF CON Franklin project paired volunteer cybersecurity experts with water utilities in four states, hardening their systems against potential nation-state threats. The founders expect that the model can work on a larger scale.

Yes24, the largest ticket retailer in South Korea, faced its second ransomware attack this summer, affecting a tour for K-pop band Day6 and other events.

The Interlock ransomware gang is claiming to have carried out a cyberattack that has disrupted the operations of the city government of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Three Ghanaian men face charges in the U.S. related to a multimillion-dollar operation that defrauded individuals online and ran business email compromise scams.

A prominent hacking operation known as RomCom and a lesser-known group tracked as Paper Werewolf or Goffee each exploited a zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR software this summer, researchers said.

In a statement on Monday, Finland’s National Prosecution Authority said they had brought aggravated criminal mischief and aggravated interference with communications charges against the three senior officers aboard the Eagle S, a tanker registered in the Cook Islands.

Although the U.K.’s High Court of Justice dismissed the foundation’s challenge, it said it would revisit the case if the organization was classified as category 1 by Ofcom — the country’s communications regulator — later this year.

The winner announced on Friday at the DEF CON cybersecurity conference, known as Team Atlanta, is composed of tech experts from Georgia Tech, Samsung Research, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) and the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH).

Embargo started to draw scrutiny in late 2024, just a few months after BlackCat’s leaders appeared to conduct an exit scam on affiliates.

Critics from press freedom groups say member states have not taken steps to give the law any teeth.

The statement followed a Wednesday report from Politico revealing a major hack of the courts’ case filing system which officials feared exposed the identities of confidential informants in criminal cases.

A North Korean state-linked hacking group known for spying added some "newly observed" ransomware to its kit in a campaign targeting South Koreans, researchers said.