The Record

A Nigerian national who worked with a group to hack tax prep businesses and conduct millions of dollars in fraud using customer data was sentenced this week.

The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act that took effect last month only requires companies to fix vulnerabilities and issue free updates during a product's support period, which manufacturers define.

The Russian group known as APT28 and Fancy Bear used a recently documented backdoor to dwell in the networks of two defense contractors and a law enforcement agency in two NATO allies, researchers said.

WhatsApp argued that NSO Group violated a 2025 injunction against using the messaging app to spread spyware. A federal judge said WhatsApp hurt its case by not revealing enough information.

ConnectWise initially said on Friday that it was investigating “attempts of unauthorized access associated with the ConnectWise Cloud Backup environment,” and confirmed such access on Saturday.

A phone belonging to the rector of the University of Belgrade was discovered to have been infected with Pegasus spyware, the latest in a series of such discoveries in the lead-up to Serbia's national elections.

Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch multinational grocery retailer, said Monday that a cyberattack forced it to take systems offline across most of its U.S. and European brands, impacting shoppers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Hackers have stolen passwords, access credentials and other sensitive data belonging to customers of Russian hosting provider FirstVDS after exploiting a vulnerability in software used to manage its servers.

Cybersecurity giant Proofpoint says it will acquire Miami-based data visibility and security company Varonis in an all-cash transaction worth $6.3 billion.

Russian authorities have reportedly detained three suspected members of the DataSuckers hacking group following a cyberattack on a popular restaurant chain that exposed vast amounts of customer information.

Anne Arundel County, Maryland, said an intruder stole files from government systems, and investigators are working to assess how much data was exposed.

An alleged Chinese state-backed group is using a new zero-day affecting BeyondTrust IT support software to conduct espionage attacks.

The incident, which involved a government contractor, has halted all production of bankruptcy notices.

Powerful zero-click spyware is infected devices worldwide through targeted ads, new research shows — an alarming development in the spread of surveillance technology.

A cyberattack on Britain’s Legal Aid Agency (LAA) stole far older and broader records than the government previously disclosed.

A roughly 2-year-old cyber-espionage campaign against Central Asian states appears to originate in Kazakhstan, researchers said.

The Ukrainian military can again use SpaceX’s Starshield satellite service on the move, a Defense Ministry source told Recorded Future News on Thursday, days after sudden restrictions disrupted drone missions along the front line.

A raid on a home in a North Macedonian village led to the arrest of the suspected administrator of the OLVX market, according to the Balkan country's Interior Ministry along with the FBI.

Russian-speaking Brooklyn residents began tipping off local authorities to a cryptocurrency fraud scheme three years ago, leading to an operation to take down the associated servers and domains.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who ordered the investigation, on Monday called the sprawling spyware operation spearheaded by the country’s previous ruling party “one of the biggest scandals in Polish history since the fall of communism.”