Australian sugar producer works to restore operations as ransomware group claims attack

Mackay Sugar said it was "working urgently" to verify claims that a highly active ransomware group was behind a cyberattack that shut down harvesting and milling operations. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 2 hours ago

Hostile states behind three-quarters of attacks on Britain's critical infrastructure, cyber chief warns

NCSC CEO Richard Horne warned that “kinetic targeting in any conflict tomorrow will be based on intelligence gathered today” and that nation-state adversaries were “prepositioning” throughout British critical infrastructure. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 23 hours ago

EU grants Ukraine access to cybersecurity reserve for major attacks

As Kyiv takes steps toward formal accession to the EU, the bloc is integrating Ukraine with its pool of pre-approved cybersecurity incident response companies. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 1 day ago

Warner warns of CISA cuts, staffing gaps in letter to acting chief

Warner on Tuesday also wrote a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, underscoring that DHS must prioritize CISA and pay for the MS-ISAC. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 1 day ago

GitHub dismissed security reports on flaws now exploited by supply-chain worm, researchers say

GitHub rejected two formal vulnerability reports identifying design flaws that researchers say are enabling variants of the Shai-Hulud supply-chain worm to infect and compromise hundreds of software packages and developer accounts worldwide. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 1 day ago

India's Telegram ban draws criticism from Durov as company challenges order in court

To prevent cheating, Indian authorities ordered Telegram to restrict access nationwide ahead of a major medical entrance exam. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 1 day ago

India temporarily blocks Telegram over medical exam cheating fears

Authorities said scammers previously exploited the feature by posting fake exam questions before the test and later replacing them with the real questions, making it look like they had leaked the exam in advance. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 2 days ago

UK to ban social media access for children under 16

The ban will apply to all “user-to-user platforms, whose purpose is to enable social interaction and which allow users to post material, alongside algorithms,” according to a press release from the government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 2 days ago

Estonia to quarantine emails sent from Russian .ru domain before they reach government officials

Estonia will require additional security screening for emails sent from Russia’s .ru top-level domain before they reach government officials, according to the country's minister of justice and digital affairs. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 2 days ago

Maine closes data breach portal to the public after fake reports

Maine is still allowing companies to report breaches, but won’t make the portal easily available to the public until after it completes an audit of its procedures to stop such incidents, according to a press release from the Maine attorney general’s office. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 2 days ago

Cyberattack on Russian tech firm Astral disrupts business, government services for week

According to customer complaints, the disruption affected a range of services used by businesses, leading to interruptions in cash register operations, difficulties selling certain regulated goods, loss of access to customer portals and corporate email and problems with electroni … | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 3 days ago

Finland brings charges against cargo ship officers for cutting submarine cables

According to the deputy prosecutor general, the ship’s officers have now been charged with “having damaged two subsea telecommunications cables and of having attempted to damage a total of eight other subsea connections.” | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 3 days ago

Anthropic says US government forced it to disable cybersecurity AI models

According to the company, the directive cited national security authorities. It appears to be the first time such authorities have been used to curtail the export of AI models rather than chips or hardware. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 3 days ago

Belarus-linked hackers target Gmail accounts of Polish public figures and their families

Poland has warned that Ghostwriter, the Belarus-linked hacker group, has expanded its phishing operations to target personal Gmail accounts belonging to senior public figures and their relatives. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 3 days ago

Bankruptcy admin approves settlement fund of $47 million for 23andMe data breach victims

About 7 million customers of the genetics testing company had their data stolen by hackers starting in April 2023, and many had their information posted on the dark web. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 6 days ago

Major US surveillance program poised to lapse after legislative deadlock

It is the first lapse of the spy program, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), since it was passed into law in 2008. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 6 days ago

South Korea hits Coupang with record $409 million fine over data breach

The penalty is the largest ever issued by the commission for a personal data breach, surpassing the record 134.8 billion won ($88.8 million) fine levied against SK Telecom earlier this year. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 6 days ago

Cyber Force not included in Senate defense policy roadmap

An amendment by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to the chamber’s fiscal 2027 national defense authorization bill that would have created the digital-focused service was defeated 14-13 when the Senate Armed Services Committee took up the nearly $1.2 trillion legislation behind clos … | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 7 days ago

British high school sends students home following cyberattack

Great Marlow School, which has 1,428 pupils according to the Department for Education (DfE), said it was set to remain closed while it works with specialist IT and cybersecurity professionals to resolve the issue. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 7 days ago

Hacker linked to Void Blizzard faces charges over cyberespionage campaign

Denis Obrezko, 36, made his initial appearance in federal court in Boston on Tuesday after being transferred to U.S. custody from Thailand, where he was arrested last November. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 7 days ago

University of Nottingham confirms cyber incident as Shiny Hunters group claims data theft

According to the university’s statement, it is still working to understand what data has been accessed and said it had already directly contacted affected students and alumni, potentially including those in its foreign campuses in Malaysia and China as well as in Nottingham. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 7 days ago

CISA to require federal agencies to patch some cyber vulnerabilities within 3 days

CISA is giving agencies 180 days to adopt the new patching time frame, according to a directive released Wednesday. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 7 days ago

Cyberattack shuts down major Australian sugar mills, disrupting harvest

Australia's second-largest sugar producer said on Wednesday that it was responding to a cybersecurity incident affecting parts of its operations and had engaged cybersecurity experts and local authorities to investigate the attack and restore its systems safely. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 8 days ago

Microsoft ships largest Patch Tuesday on record, with one bug under active attack

The release comes after Microsoft’s security leadership acknowledged last month that AI tools are driving a surge in vulnerability discovery across the industry. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 8 days ago

UK weakens proposed telecoms defenses against Chinese hackers after industry pushback

Britain has weakened proposed cybersecurity protections for its telecoms networks that were developed in response to the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, after the companies responsible for implementing the measures lobbied against them. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 8 days ago

CISA to transform how it assesses cyber vulnerabilities and risks, Andersen says

A binding operational directive being released Wednesday will direct federal agencies to change the way they address vulnerabilities by elevating some while putting others to the side. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 8 days ago

Hackers pose as women seeking romance to spy on Russian soldiers

The group, dubbed SiribClone by Russian cybersecurity firm F6, has been active since at least the summer of 2025 and has primarily targeted members of the Russian armed forces stationed in border regions and combat zones. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 9 days ago

UK gives big tech 3 months to create device controls to block nude images of kids

The companies “must activate built-in features or implement technical solutions on smartphones and tablets to detect and block nude images for children,” according to a press release from the Home Office. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the measure in a speech at London Tec … | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 9 days ago

Armenia’s pro-Europe party wins election despite Russia-linked disinformation

Pashinyan's Civil Contract party won nearly 50% of Sunday's vote, defeating the pro-Russian Strong Armenia party led by Russian-Armenian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan, which received around 23% of the vote. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 10 days ago

WhatsApp says NSO targeted users with spearfishing attacks in violation of court order

WhatsApp said it is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent injunction that bars it from mounting attacks against its users. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 10 days ago

Russia upgrades rules for its digital spy system to better track citizens online

New regulations published by Russia's Ministry of Digital Development at the end of May updated the technical standards governing SORM, formally known as the System for Operative Investigative Activities. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 10 days ago

EU unveils tech sovereignty package to cut reliance on US, Chinese suppliers

The package bundles two draft laws — a Chips Act 2.0 and a Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) — alongside an Open Source Strategy and a roadmap for digitalizing the energy system. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 13 days ago

Apple removes Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max from its store

Russian authorities have promoted Max as a domestic alternative to foreign messaging platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 13 days ago

Trump considers Palantir exec to lead CISA

Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, has emerged as a lead contender for the long vacant Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director role, according to the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss the administration’s search … | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 13 days ago

FTC considers setting aside or modifying $150 million privacy penalty against X

Twitter, renamed X in 2023, filed a petition saying that the settlement terms are unfair because the order was issued against a company that “no longer exists,” the workers responsible for the scheme no longer work for X and the firm has since established a “world class” privacy … | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 13 days ago

Russia seeks to label two anti-Kremlin hacker groups as ‘extremist’

The groups have previously claimed responsibility for cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure and government institutions in Russia and Belarus. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 13 days ago

Supreme Court rules FCC fines punishing telecom giants for sharing location data were legal

The Trump administration had backed the FCC’s position and, apart from Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court agreed. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 13 days ago

UN food agency investigates breach exposing data of Gaza aid recipients

In a message sent to aid recipients via Telegram over the weekend, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that "unauthorized parties" had accessed data stored in its self-registration application in Gaza. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 14 days ago

Researcher publishes GitHub token-stealing exploit, blames Microsoft’s disclosure process

The security researcher, Ammar Askar, released the new proof-of-concept exploit on his personal blog — alongside the public tracker for issues in VS Code — giving a GitHub security contact roughly one hour's notice beforehand. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 14 days ago

Five Eyes warn Chinese spies are using job sites to recruit insiders

The alert warned that Chinese intelligence officers are posing as recruiters and consultants for front companies based outside China in order to target Five Eyes government and military personnel “and anyone with access to classified or privileged information.” | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 14 days ago

CISA directive for AI executive order to be released this week, Andersen says

The binding operational directive will focus in part on “vulnerability alleviation and vulnerability management,” Andersen said in remarks delivered at the TechNet Cyber conference in Baltimore. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 14 days ago

DHS chief signals efforts to reshape CISA

In his first appearance before the panel since being confirmed in March, Mullin said that CISA probably needs “somewhere around” 2,800 employees, despite its ability to hire up to 3,400. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 14 days ago

New cyber force would cost up to $11 billion to start, commission says

The military branch would take 12 to 18 months to get up and running and also include roughly 5,000 members of the National Guard and up to 6,000 civilians, according to the commission. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 15 days ago

White House unveils pared-back AI executive order

The order notes that federal access to the models should be subject to “appropriate confidentiality, cybersecurity, insider-risk, and intellectual-property protection, use, and nondisclosure requirements.” | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 15 days ago

Russia claims foreign spy agencies hacked officials' phones

In a statement, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had uncovered what it described as a "large-scale operation" involving malicious software installed on the mobile devices of senior Russian officials. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 16 days ago

Red Hat removes tainted packages after software pipeline compromise

According to the company’s preliminary analysis, a compromised GitHub account was used to push the malicious code out to customers, hitting 32 packages downloaded roughly 117,000 times a week. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 16 days ago

Spain arrests suspected hacker for publishing personal data of police, prosecutors and cyber officials

Police described the incident as a large-scale disclosure of sensitive personal information that posed a threat to both the affected individuals and the institutions they serve. The data was allegedly posted on multiple internet platforms. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 16 days ago

Inspector general finds NIST mistakes have made vulnerability database ineffective

NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) backlog mushroomed from 13,000 unprocessed security vulnerabilities in February 2024 to more than 27,000 by the end of 2025, “undermining the NVD’s utility and public trust," according to an inspector general report. | Continue reading


@therecord.media | 16 days ago