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2025-10-27 18:05:00 UTC

Cities have moved to halt their work with surveillance tech company Flock after reports showed that it shared data from local partners with federal immigration authorities.
https://therecord.media/cities-reverse-course-on-automated-license-plate-reader-cameras

2025-10-06 15:29:09 UTC

Signal said it would rather leave the European market than comply with a potential "Chat Control" rule that would require companies to build surveillance into their messaging services.
https://therecord.media/signal-calls-on-germany-to-vote-no-chat-control

2025-09-22 12:37:03 UTC

CISA has released two documents explaining its plans for the CVE Program — a critical cybersecurity resource used globally to catalog thousands of software and hardware bugs.
https://therecord.media/cve-program-future-limbo-cisa

2025-09-17 13:03:21 UTC

The hacking group known as Kimsuky used generative AI to create South Korean military IDs used in a phishing campaign against defense-related institutions, researchers said.
https://therecord.media/north-korea-kimsuky-hackers-phishing-fake-military-ids-chatgpt

2025-07-17 14:00:29 UTC

A former National Crime Agency investigator who worked on the Silk Road case was sentenced to more than five years in prison for stealing 50 bitcoin seized in that operation.
https://therecord.media/former-uk-nca-officer-jailed-stealing-bitcoin-from-criminal

2025-07-09 18:20:44 UTC

Bitcoin Depot, which operates cryptocurrency ATMs across North America, says information belonging to more than 26,000 people was breached in an incident last year.
https://therecord.media/bitcoin-depot-cryptocurrency-atm-company-data-breach

2025-07-09 13:38:14 UTC

Thousands of web pages falsely branded as popular news sites are conduits for fake cryptocurrency investment scams, researchers said.
https://therecord.media/news-websites-faked-to-spread-investment-scams

2025-06-25 14:47:49 UTC

Several suspects tied to the cybercrime site BreachForums have been arrested in France, according to a local news report, including alleged administrators known as ShinyHunters and Intelbroker.
https://therecord.media/france-breachforums-suspects-arrests

2025-06-13 14:59:58 UTC

Denmark's digital affairs ministry says it plans to switch to the open source LibreOffice software and away from Microsoft products as part of an effort to make the government more digitally independent.
https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence

2025-05-30 12:03:27 UTC

Australia is now the first country to require ransomware victims to report if they make any extortion payments to their attackers.
https://therecord.media/australia-ransomware-victims-must-report-payments

2025-05-28 17:10:48 UTC

Oregon joins Maryland in becoming the second state to ban the sale of precise geolocation data. Both also ban the sale of data belonging to children.
https://therecord.media/oregon-passes-geolocation-kids-data-bill

2025-05-27 18:08:19 UTC

The city of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, filed breach notification letters with regulators seven months after a ransomware gang accessed systems.
https://therecord.media/ransomware-sheboygan-breach-notice

2025-04-21 12:24:44 UTC

Japanese regulators published an urgent warning about hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of unauthorized trades being conducted on hacked brokerage accounts in the country.
https://therecord.media/japan-warns-of-unauthorized-trades-hacked-accounts

2024-12-02 20:18:00 UTC

Former Polish spy chief arrested to testify before parliament in spyware probe
https://therecord.media/poland-former-spy-chief-testifies-pegasus-spyware

2024-11-14 20:48:12 UTC

1,400 Pegasus spyware infections detailed in WhatsApp’s lawsuit filings
https://therecord.media/pegasus-spyware-infections-detailed-whatsapp-lawsuit

2024-11-05 13:53:00 UTC

Feds identify two more Russian election disinfo attempts, say Iranian campaigns remain a threat
https://therecord.media/presidential-election-disinformation-article-video-russia-iran

2024-11-05 13:32:32 UTC

Lithuania: Russian military intelligence behind plot to parcel bomb cargo planes
https://therecord.media/parcel-bombs-planes-russia-lithuania-dhl

2024-11-04 20:03:16 UTC

Exclusive: Nakasone says all the news about influence campaigns ahead of Election Day is actually ‘a sign of success’
https://therecord.media/nakasone-2024-election-security-influence-operations

2024-10-10 15:12:50 UTC

New law in Australia will require mandatory reporting of ransomware payments
https://therecord.media/australia-bill-mandatory-reporting-ransomware-payments

2024-09-30 21:08:12 UTC

Crucial Texas hospital system turning ambulances away after ransomware attack
https://therecord.media/crucial-hospital-texas-ransomware-attackc

2024-09-30 11:57:28 UTC

Here's what to expect from the Counter Ransomware Initiative meeting this week
https://therecord.media/counter-ransomware-initiative-washington-meeting-2024

2024-09-09 19:12:38 UTC

Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

2024-08-07 14:37:20 UTC

Facial authentication is surging across sports leagues. A tech exec explains the interest.
https://therecord.media/facial-recognition-sports-teams-stadiums-wicket-coo-interview