The $200,000 Zoom call. Jake Gallen used to think the best stories in Las Vegas happened behind velvet ropes. Between 2010 and 2020, he lived the Strip’s hustle — poolside service as a model cabana ...

Spyware maker cuts ties with Italy after government refused audit into hack of journalist’s phone. The spyware manufacturer Paragon said Monday that it has ended its contract with Italy because a ...

Brett Leatherman, a career FBI official with deep cybersecurity experience, has been tapped to serve as assistant director of the bureau’s Cyber Division. In a post on LinkedIn, Leatherman said he was ...

FBI: Play ransomware gang has attacked 600 organizations since 2023. More than 900 organizations have been hit by cyberattacks from the Play ransomware gang since it emerged in 2022, making it one of ...

Researchers say they have uncovered new evidence linking a long-running threat actor known as Bitter to the Indian government. The group has been involved in cyber-espionage operations targeting ...

A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to Iran has been targeting Kurdish and Iraqi government officials in a years-long cyber espionage campaign, according to a new report. Researchers at the ...

Germany hands Vodafone $51 million fine over data privacy violations. German data privacy regulators on Monday fined the multinational telecommunications company Vodafone €45 million ($51.2 million) ...

Pro-Ukraine hacker group Black Owl poses ‘major threat’ to Russia, Kaspersky says. A little-known hacking group has emerged as a major threat to Russian state institutions and critical industries, ...

Meta says it disrupted influence operations linked to China, Iran, Romania. Researchers at Meta said the company dismantled three covert influence campaigns originating from China, Iran and Romania ...

Recent attacks on institutions in the Netherlands were the work of a previously unknown Russian hacking group that Dutch intelligence agencies are labeling Laundry Bear. Microsoft also reported on the ...

SolarWinds security chief on the risks and rewards of being a CISO. As the chief information security officer of SolarWinds, Tim Brown had a front-row view of the company’s 2020 Sunburst incident — ...

Japan on Friday enacted a new law that would permit the country’s authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations to ensure threats are suppressed before they ...