A Virginia man was convicted on federal charges Thursday after a jury found him guilty of deleting 96 government databases and stealing an individual’s password, leading their email account to be accessed without permission.
A patch for the bug, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, has not been published yet and Palo Alto Networks said it will be included in releases over the next two weeks.
Researchers at Kaspersky said attackers tampered with installers for Daemon Tools — a popular program used to mount disk images as virtual drives — and distributed them through the software’s official website.
The preliminary settlement agreement, released on Thursday, said that Forbes has agreed to give users “greater notice” of its use of trackers and will add language to its website providing California residents with more control over how their data is collected and shared with third parties.
Mediaworks confirmed the incident on Friday, warning that “a significant amount of illegally obtained data may have come into the possession of unauthorized persons."
The latest House action came after the Senate declared the previous bill dead on arrival because it included a ban on the Federal Reserve’s ability to issue a digital currency. Instead, the upper chamber approved a 45-day extension by unanimous consent.
In an advisory this week, FBI officials said cyber actors have spent the last two years breaking into the systems of brokers and carriers — allowing them to pose as victim companies and post fraudulent listings on freight delivery message boards.
The Justice Department said the operation began last year following “numerous” victim complaints to the FBI by U.S. victims who lost millions through cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes.
Police said on Monday the victims included both Ukrainian and foreign players whose accounts contained valuable digital items, rare equipment and in-game currency purchased with real money.
State officials said they observed overseas criminals carrying out government impersonation or tech support cons, as well as romance and pig butchering scams using cryptocurrency ATMs.
The home security company ADT said cybercriminals breached company systems on Monday and stole a “limited set” of customer and prospective customer information.
The group, which researchers at cybersecurity firm ESET named GopherWhisper, has been active since at least November 2023 and was discovered in January 2025 after investigators found a previously unknown backdoor on the network of a Mongolian government institution.
Hackers deployed a previously unknown wiper malware against Venezuela’s energy and utilities sector in an attack that appears to have been designed to destroy systems.
The regulator fined Poste Italiane SpA, the postal service provider, €6.6 million ($7.8 million) and Postepay SpA, a digital payments subsidiary, €5.9 million ($7 million) for allegedly illegally processing millions of users’ personal data.
Musk, the billionaire owner of X, and the company's chief executive Linda Yaccarino had both been summoned for voluntary interviews with police on April 20 in Paris.
A cyberattack targeting a French government website used to manage identity documents and driver’s licenses may have exposed users’ personal data, the Interior Ministry said.
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