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The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions on several organizations and individuals behind cyber scam operations in Myanmar and Cambodia, which have stolen over $10 million from U.S. victims, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Multiple bills aimed at strengthening U.S. cybersecurity have been passed by the House Homeland Security Committee, led by legislation that would extend the Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act for another decade with updates, reports CyberScoop.

China-based toy manufacturer Apitor Technology was proposed by the Federal Trade Commission to pay a $500,000 penalty after allegedly permitting a Chinese third-party to obtain children's geolocation data without parental consent, which violates the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Operations of the Federal Communications Commission's Cyber Trust Mark program were noted by cybersecurity experts and Biden administration officials to be potentially undermined by an ongoing vague investigation launched by FCC Chair Brendan Carr over the Chinese links of Illinois-based testing conglomerate UL Solutions, which was tasked to supervise the program, reports Cybersecurity Dive.

TechCrunch reports that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reactivated a $2 million contract with Israeli spyware vendor Paragon, lifting a Biden-era stop work order meant to evaluate the agreement's adherence to a commercial spyware-focused executive order.

Disney has agreed to a $10 million settlement for a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging its unwarranted collection of personal information from children watching its videos on YouTube, which violates the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency had two dozen members of its IT department, including Chief Information Officer Charles Armstrong and Chief Information Security Officer Gregory Edwards, booted out by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem over the agency's failure to address significant cybersecurity weaknesses within its systems, reports The Cyber Express.