Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Mark Meador has pushed the adoption of online age verification to better protect children from online security threats, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Over 454,600 new harmful software packages, which were cumulatively downloaded 9.8 trillion times, have been discovered across major repositories like PyPI, Hugging Face, NuGet, Maven Central, and npm, last year, according to The Cyber Express.
Infosecurity Magazine reports that Chinese money laundering networks processed a fifth of all illicit cryptocurrency proceeds over the past five years, driving the global crypto-based laundering ecosystem's growth from $10 billion in 2020 to more than $82 billion in 2025.
U.S. online dating service operator Match Group had more than 10 million records across its Hinge, OkCupid, and Match platforms allegedly stolen by the ShinyHunters hacking group from widely used mobile marketing analytics platform AppsFlyer, Cybernews reports.
Nearly 30 distributed energy generation sites across Poland have been compromised by the thwarted December cyberattack attributed to the Russian state-sponsored hacking operation Sandworm, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
AI-powered code has been leveraged by a Vietnamese threat actor to deliver PureRAT malware and other illicit payloads as part of a fake job phishing campaign initially discovered by Trend Micro in December, reports GBHackers News.
The U.S. was noted by senior Defense Department officials to be able to better tackle intensified Chinese cybersecurity threats against its networks through a new cyber force generation model under the Cybercom 2.0 initiative, according to DefenseScoop.
The collaboration allows Abstract Security and Netskope customers to streamline the collection, transformation, and analysis of Netskope One telemetry.
