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The District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE) is currently probing a data leak involving an unknown number of voter records following breach claims from a threat actor known as RansomedVC.

At the plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament (EP) adopted on 3 October, with an overwhelming majority, (448 votes in favour, 102 votes against and 75 abstentions) its position on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA). The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) appreciate the EP’s continued commitment to preserving and promoting media freedom in an ever more hostile and fragile media environment. Many essential changes have been made since the legislati...

Hackers engaging in cyber espionage have targeted Chinese-speaking semiconductor companies with TSMC-themed lures that infect them with Cobalt Strike beacons.

The FBI issued a public service announcement warning of a significant increase in phantom hacker scams targeting senior citizens across the United States.

Arm in a security advisory today is warning of an actively exploited vulnerability affecting the widely-used Mali GPU drivers.

The North Korean Lazarus hacking group targeted employees of an aerospace company located in Spain with fake job opportunities to hack into the corporate network using a previously unknown LightlessCan backdoor.

As the European Parliament gets set to vote on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) next week, 80 civil society and journalists’ associations and unions, including the International and the European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ), are calling on Members of European Parliament (MEPs) to ensure meaningful protection for journalists in the regulation by including a total ban on spyware.

Sebastien Raoult, a 22-year-old from France, has pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court of Seattle to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft as part of his activities in the ShinyHunters hacking group.

Malicious advertisements are now being injected into Microsofts AI-powered Bing Chat responses, promoting fake download sites that distribute malware.

Fake Bitwarden sites are pushing installers purportedly for the open-source password manager that carry a new password-stealing malware that security researchers call ZenRAT.