A long-running law that has allowed U. intelligence agencies to collect and analyze huge amounts of overseas communications without needing search warrants is set to expire next week, and lawmakers are in a deadlock over whether to allow the Trump administration to extend it without any changes. Known as Section …

Hackers have broken into at least one organization using Windows vulnerabilities published online by a disgruntled security researcher over the last two weeks, according to a cybersecurity firm. On Friday, cybersecurity company Huntress said in a series of posts on X that its researchers have seen hackers taking advantage of …

Nicholas Moore, who pleaded guilty to hacking the U. Supreme Court’s electronic document filing system dozens of times over several months, was sentenced on Friday to a year of probation. Moore had also hacked into the network of AmeriCorps, a government agency that runs stipend volunteer programs, and the systems …

citizens were sentenced to seven and a half years and nine years in prison for their roles in a scheme to help the North Korean government place remote IT workers in American companies. Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Kejia Wang and Zhenxing Wang, both New Jersey residents. The …

Bluesky’s website and app are still struggling on Thursday after experiencing service interruptions that COO Rose Wang attributed to a denial-of-service attack. According to the social network’s status page, the issues began around 2:42 a. ET time on Thursday and have continued since. Currently, the Bluesky site and app will …

A coalition of global law enforcement agencies have sent emails to more than 75,000 alleged cybercriminals who paid for a service to launch cyberattacks that can knock websites offline. On Thursday, Europol announced the coordinated operation against several distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) for-hire services, which allow criminals to launch cyberattacks without …

The Swedish government said Russian government-linked hackers attempted to disrupt the operations at one of the country’s thermal power plants last year. Sweden said that, while the hackers were unsuccessful, hybrid attacks that extend beyond cyberspace are becoming more dangerous. Sweden’s minister of civil defense, Carl-Oskar Bohlin, said during a …

Adobe has patched a vulnerability in its flagship document-reading apps, Acrobat DC, Reader DC and Acrobat 2024, that hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months. The vulnerability, officially tracked as CVE-2026-34621, allows hackers to remotely plant malware on a person’s device by tricking them into opening a …

Jack Clark, one of Anthropic’s co-founders who also serves as Head of Public Benefit for Anthropic PBC, confirmed that the AI company had briefed the Trump administration about its new Mythos model. The model, announced last week, is so dangerous that it’s not being released to the public, largely due …

Dozens of plug-ins for the widely used open source web blogging software WordPress are now offline after a backdoor was discovered in them, used to push malicious code to any website that relied on the plug-ins. The backdoor was discovered after a new corporate owner bought these plug-ins. Anchor Hosting …