Privacy

Experts say an attack on PII is essentially an identity hack.

Digital rights advocates and industry execs worry that treaty would lead to abuse by authoritarian regimes.

Malware’s rich feature set expected to have broader appeal to threat actors.

Google has been sued by the Digital Childhood Institute over alleged violations of U.S. privacy laws involving unfair and deceptive practices involving children and teens, according to CyberScoop.

Cybernews reports that nearly 1,000 employees from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the FBI had their personal information and emails exposed by The Com hacking collective following an extensive coordinated cyberattack that comes amid the U.S. government's mounting crackdown on immigration and protests.

Reuters reports that Israeli spyware firm NSO Group had its initial $167 million penalty to Meta Platforms sharply reduced by U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton to only $4 million, while being imposed a permanent injunction barring any further targeting of the WhatsApp platform.

Nineteen-year-old Massachusetts resident Matthew Lane faces a possible seven-year prison sentence after admitting to hacking the education technology firm PowerSchool and stealing the personal information of millions of students and teachers, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.