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SentinelOne researchers detail over 10 offensive cybersecurity patents filed by Shanghai Firetech, a company allegedly involved in Beijing's Silk Typhoon hacks (therecord.media)
3 hours ago Shanghai

A US judge sentences an Arizona woman to 8.5 years in prison for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korean workers to secure IT jobs at 309 US companies (therecord.media)
7 days ago Korea

The US Treasury sanctions three senior North Korean officials accused of tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities as IT workers (therecord.media)
8 days ago Korea

A US federal jury gives five Nevada men varying prison sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services (therecord.media)
9 days ago

Google says threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by targeting fully patched, end-of-life appliances from cybersecurity company SonicWall (therecord.media)
16 days ago Google

Google says its Big Sleep AI agent for finding unknown software vulnerabilities recently discovered a critical SQLite flaw that “was at risk of being exploited” (therecord.media)
17 days ago Google AI SQLite

French media: French police detained Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin at the US' request due to his alleged links to a ransomware group (therecord.media)
21 days ago Russia France

A German court ruled Meta's tracking pixels embedded in third-party websites and apps violate the EU's GDPR, ordering it to pay €5,000 to a German Facebook user (therecord.media)
23 days ago Germany Facebook GDPR

Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin (therecord.media)
2025-6-25 Russia

Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider (therecord.media)
2025-6-21 Insurance

Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations (therecord.media)
2025-5-17 Japan

Telegram's Pavel Durov has left France, reportedly after a judge authorized him to leave the country for “several weeks”; the investigation is ongoing (therecord.media)
2025-3-18 France

Experts say Sean Cairncross' nomination as national cyber director signals the White House's ONCD will lead US cyber policy across the government (therecord.media)
2025-3-8

Sources: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions (therecord.media)
2025-3-1 Russia

MGM Resorts agrees to pay $45M to settle 14 class action lawsuits related to a data breach in 2019 and a ransomware attack the company experienced in 2023 (therecord.media)
2025-1-29

Sources: US State Dept.'s freeze on foreign aid applies to a bureau that uses cyber diplomacy to fight threats and pursues international norms for emerging tech (therecord.media)
2025-1-26

During her confirmation hearing for secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem says efforts to address foreign disinfo campaigns were outside the remit of CISA (therecord.media)
2025-1-18

President Biden signs the $895B 2025 defense policy bill, including $3B for the FCC's “rip and replace” program to get rid of Chinese networking equipment (therecord.media)
2024-12-25 China

The US DOJ indicts 14 North Korean nationals for allegedly earning $88M+ through fraud by working as remote IT workers for US companies from 2017 to 2023 (therecord.media)
2024-12-14 Korea

Vodka maker Stoli says an August 2024 ransomware attack contributed to the bankruptcy filing of its US arm, amid its ongoing issues with the Russian government (therecord.media)
2024-12-4 Russia

Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin is shutting down and plans to transfer accounts and assets to crypto firm SBI VC Trade by March, after a $300M+ hack in May (therecord.media)
2024-12-3 Japan Bitcoin Asset

In its latest security report, Meta says it removed 2M+ accounts this year connected to pig butchering scams conducted from Southeast Asia and the UAE (therecord.media)
2024-11-22 Asia Southeast Asia

A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed (therecord.media)
2024-11-20

An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto mixer Helix, which laundered $311M+ from 2014 to 2017; he must forfeit $311M+ and assets worth $400M+ (therecord.media)
2024-11-16 Asset

How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021 (therecord.media)
2024-11-13 Italy

The Biden admin unveils proposed rules for restricting the transfer of US citizens' sensitive data, including biometric and genomic info, to adversarial nations (therecord.media)
2024-10-22

UK-based Sophos plans to acquire Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Secureworks for ~$859M, expected to close in early 2025; Dell owns ~79% of Secureworks (therecord.media)
2024-10-22

Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme orchestrated by group UNC5267 starting in 2018 (therecord.media)
2024-9-25 Korea Google

The FBI says it disrupted a botnet of “hundreds of thousands” of IoT devices worldwide last week, run by the China-linked hacking group Flax Typhoon (therecord.media)
2024-9-19 IoT China FBI

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