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Journalists in Europe found it was "easy" to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location data sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest data protection laws in the world.

China has sentenced nearly 20 people, including members of prominent mafia families, to death over pig butchering scams in recent months. The post China is sentencing pig butchering scammers to death appeared first on Protos.

France-based victims hit especially hard, while UK named most-targeted country generally Researchers are seeing a "dramatic" increase in cybercrime involving physical violence across Europe, with at least 18 cases reported since the start of the year.…

Check Point lifts lid on a quartet of Teams vulns that made it possible to fake the boss, forge messages, and quietly rewrite history Microsoft Teams, one of the world's most widely used collaboration tools, contained serious, now-patched vulnerabilities that could have let attackers impersonate executives, rewrite chat history, and fake notifications or calls – all without users suspecting a thing.…

Nine people have been arrested in connection with a coordinated law enforcement operation that targeted a cryptocurrency money laundering network that defrauded victims of €600 million (~$688 million). According to a statement released by Eurojust today, the action took place between October 27 and 29 across Cyprus, Spain, and Germany, with the suspects arrested on charges of involvement in

The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) is investigating a cyberattack on IT systems supplier Miljödata that exposed data belonging to 1.5 million people. [...]

I’ve identified RondoDox v2, a significant evolution of the RondoDox botnet first documented by FortiGuard Labs in September 2024. This new variant demonstrates a dramatic expansion in capabilities,

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Flock said around 3% of its law enforcement customers do not use multi-factor authentication, potentially leaving dozens of law enforcement agency accounts open to compromise and improper access.

55 cuffed last week after court ruled sting operation was legal Australian police last week made 55 arrests using evidence gathered with a backdoored messaging app that authorities distributed in the criminal community.…

This is not what people mean when they say: 'You should get a side hustle' A ransomware negotiator and an incident response manager at two separate cybersecurity firms have been indicted for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks of their own against multiple US companies.…

The Balancer Protocol announced that hackers had targeted its v2 pools, with losses reportedly estimated to be more than $128 million. [...]