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Cybercriminals have registered more than 4,300 fraudulent domains impersonating FIFA's official web presence since August 2025.

Anne Keast-Butler, director of GCHQ, said Russia's actions have prompted the agency to defend subsea cables and energy pipelines in British waters, disrupt Russian networks smuggling sanctioned technology and countering “reckless sabotage and assassination attempts.”

Dragomir was arrested in Romania in November 2024 and brought to the U.S. last year to face charges for hacking into the network belonging to Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management.

Army Gen. Joshua Rudd, who took the twin-leadership reins of Cyber Command and the NSA in March, recently tapped MITRE to conduct a potentially wide-ranging review into the organization, according to three people familiar with the matter.

In a public advisory issued Tuesday the FBI said a hacking group has targeted law firms using social engineering schemes to gain remote access to corporate systems and exfiltrate data.

The suspect was detained in the central Dutch town of Buren, where law enforcement officers also searched his home and seized multiple digital storage devices, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Dutch National Police.

The hacking group claimed to be a standalone hacktivist crew but actually has ties to the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran (MOIS), researchers at Gambit Security said in a report published Tuesday.

The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office said Friday that attackers gained unauthorized access to more than 600,000 records managed by the Centre of Registers, the state agency responsible for handling property and legal entity records.

Andrei Kozlov, the former head of a cybersecurity center within Russia’s state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec, was named an aide to Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu on Friday.

Investigators seized more than 800 servers as they arrested two men suspected of violating European sanctions and assisting pro-Russian cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the creation of a nomination form on Thursday that they said enables “researchers, vendors, and industry partners” to report bugs that need to be added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

The law enforcement agency published an advisory on Thursday about Kali365 — a Telegram-based service for cybercriminals that allows them to capture legitimate "OAuth" tokens enabling widespread access to Microsoft 365 environments.

The bellwether lawsuit was the first of at least 1,200 to be brought by a school district against Meta, Snap, YouTube and TikTok for similar alleged harms. The other cases have not yet been tried.

Lawyer Adam Unikowsky spoke with Recorded Future News about why he believes geofence searches are problematic and why the way the court rules could have a dramatic impact on Americans’ right to privacy.

In court documents unsealed on Thursday, the Justice Department said Jacob Butler ran KimWolf as a DDoS-for-hire service that infected over a million devices worldwide.

The regulator, Ofcom, had required Roblox, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok to answer questions about their efforts to remove harmful algorithms, check kids’ ages and protect them from sexual predators by the end of April.

Adam Young, 42, and Harrison Gevirtz, 33, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony after they were accused of offering phone numbers, call routing services, call tracking tools and call forwarding services to India-based telemarketing fraudsters.

The proposals would require researchers to cease activity the moment a vulnerability is identified, meaning they could not confirm it was real, assess its severity or determine its exploitability.

In a lengthy joint statement, Moscow and Beijing pledged closer cooperation on satellite internet technologies and joint work on software development and open-source initiatives — part of a broader effort to reduce reliance on Western technology and build a more independent technological ecosystem capable of competing with countries both states consider “unfriendly.”

The international operation targeted a service known as First VPN, which had been marketed for years on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums as a secure way for criminals to evade law enforcement.