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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent directive requiring federal agencies to patch a critical Cisco Unified Communications Manager ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday the seizure of a cloud computing account operated by subsidiaries of Cambodia-based conglomerate HuiOne Group, a network accused...

President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 22, establishing firm deadlines for federal agencies to migrate high-value assets and high-impact systems to post-quantum crypt...

Canada's Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) executed a first-of-its-kind threat reduction warrant to neutralize two foreign-run botnets operating from infected servers, SOHO rout...

When a shopper enters their card number on a modern checkout page, their browser is executing far more than the merchant's own code. Analytics tags, tag managers, support widgets, ...

OpenAI is reportedly developing a new subscription tier called "ChatGPT for Science," according to references discovered on the web build by users on X. The new offering appears ai...

Google has begun notifying advertisers that, starting on or shortly after August 3, 2026, it will repurpose IP addresses collected from users in the European Economic Area (EEA), t...

On June 16, 2026, India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology invoked Section 69A of the IT Act to block Telegram nationwide until June 22, following a recommendatio...

The UK government will require anyone opening a new social media account to verify their age by uploading government-issued ID or passing a facial age scan, under regulations annou...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has revealed that Americans lost a record $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses nearly tripling since 2020 and accounting f...

The UK government has announced plans to block anyone under 16 from accessing social media platforms, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling the measures the strongest child onli...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the seizure of CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com, two domains accused of hosting nonconsensual AI-generated nude images and videos of women, in wha...

Anthropic announced on Friday that it will abruptly disable its most advanced AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all users after the U.S. government issued an export contr...

Anthropic has pulled the plug on its two most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for every user worldwide after receiving a US government export control directive on June 12...

Anthropic announced Friday that it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration aimed...

Google has filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan against a Chinese cybercrime operation it accuses of abusing its Gemini AI assistant to power a large-scale smishing campaign target...

The Maine Attorney General's Office has temporarily disabled public access to its state-run data breach notification portal after fraudulent breach reports impersonating VRChat and...

Anthropic has clarified the distinction between its latest large language model releases, confirming that Claude Mythos 5 does not represent a fundamental shift in the security pos...

This week in cybersecurity saw a wave of high-impact developments spanning government accountability, corporate breaches, and AI security. A former IBM cybersecurity executive has ...

A Missouri bankruptcy court administrator has greenlit a $46.8 million settlement fund compensating millions of victims of the 2023 23andMe data breach. The deal, confirmed on Wedn...

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) expired at midnight Friday after Congress and the White House failed to reach a deal to renew the controversial spy ...

South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has imposed a record 624.7 billion won ($409 million) fine on Coupang, the country's largest online retailer, over a...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will release a binding operational directive (BOD) to federal agencies by the end of the week, directing them on how to ...

The managed service provider (MSP) cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a significant transformation as traditional vCISO platforms fail to meet the demands of modern security pra...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against 23andMe (now Chrome Holding Co.) for failing to protect sensitive customer genetic and personal information during...

General Motors has agreed to pay a $12.75 million settlement to the State of California for collecting and sharing sensitive driver data without proper consent, marking the largest...

A Slovakian national, Alan Bill, 33, was sentenced on Thursday to 16 years (192 months) in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. B...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an emergency directive requiring federal civilian agencies to patch a critical vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoi...

Musk's legal team filed a complaint in the Delaware Court of Chancery on 12 March, alleging that OpenAI's board has abandoned its original mission to develop artificial general int...

Industry insiders are buzzing after reports surfaced that Tom Parker, a seasoned executive known for his boardroom operational expertise, may be the frontrunner to assume the helm ...

The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with data broker Kochava and its subsidiary Collective Data Solutions (CDS) that prohibits them from selling or sharing precise ...

Dark Reading marks its 20th anniversary this month, reflecting on two decades of delivering timely cybersecurity news, analysis, and insights to professionals worldwide. Launched o...

Chris Inglis, who served as NSA Deputy Director from 2011 to 2014 under Director Keith Alexander, has broken his silence on the agency's missteps during the Edward Snowden affair, ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added four actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, signaling a...

Romance scams, a form of confidence scheme that preys on emotional trust, continue to trap thousands of victims each year. Security analysts note that those who fall prey to these ...

NIST's National Vulnerability Database (NVD) has historically been the primary source of enriched CVE data, attaching CVSS v3.1 vector strings, severity ratings, affected product C...

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a set of updated cybersecurity requirements under the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA), signaling a heightened focus on protecting operat...

NIST has announced a major overhaul of its Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, shifting the focus of its National Vulnerability Database (NVD) toward high‑impact se...

Google has announced significant changes to its Android app distribution model, implementing mandatory developer verification for all apps published on Google Play Store. The new r...

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, filed a whistleblower complaint in July 2022 with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Senate Select Committee on Int...