European Union lawmakers are aiming to protect journalists from member states targeting them with spyware following a number of high-profile incidents across the bloc. Alongside measures promoting ...

The U.S. government unveiled a slate of sanctions, charges and bounties on Wednesday related to a group of Iranian nationals accused of working with the country’s military to launch ransomware attacks ...

Hackers attacked the national power grid of an unspecified Asian country earlier this year using malware typically deployed by personnel connected to China’s government, researchers said Tuesday.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed several changes to the U.S. Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts designed to beef up the ...

In state after state this year, legislators enacted notably weak comprehensive data privacy bills — in fact, at least three of them were nearly identical to a Virginia privacy law drafted by an Amazon ...

Minneapolis Public Schools has begun notifying more than 100,000 people that their personal information may have been leaked after a cyberattack early this year. The Medusa ransomware group claimed ...

The powerful commercial surveillance tool Predator may have taken a beating in March when U.S. officials announced sweeping sanctions against the spyware purveyor’s parent company and leadership, but ...

The FBI’s recent takedown of the QakBot botnet sent shockwaves throughout the cybersecurity community when it was first announced last week. QakBot had become the malware of choice for dozens of ...

The FBI is adding “highly tailored, difficult-to-detect social engineering campaigns” to the list of scams and hacks that North Korea aims at decentralized finance (DeFi) operations and similar ...

Deutsche Flugsicherung, the German state-owned company responsible for the country’s air traffic control, has confirmed being hit by a cyberattack. The nature of the attack is unclear. A press officer ...

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) confirmed this week that the information of students was involved in a ransomware attack discovered in June. TDSB initially said the cybercriminals targeted a ...