The US Department of the Treasury sanctioned four entities and one individual for their role in cyber operations conducted by North Korea. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against four...
The European Union condemned Meta with a record $1.3 billion fine for transferring European user data to the US. The European Union fined Meta $1.3 billion for transferring user data to the US. This is the biggest fine since the adoption of the General...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the largest-ever award, approximately $279 million, to a whistleblower. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) paid a record sum of approximately $279 million to a whistleblower. The...
Google obtained a temporary court order in the U.S. to disrupt the operations of the CryptBot information stealer. Google announced that a federal judge in the Southern District of New York unsealed its civil action against the operators of the information...
Italy’s data protection agency is temporarily blocking the popular chatbot ChatGPT due to a possible violation of the European data privacy regulation. The Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante Privacy, has temporarily banned ChatGPT due to the illegal...
U.S. law enforcement arrested this week a US citizen suspected to be Pompompurin, the notorious owner of the BreachForums cybercrime forum. U.S. law enforcement arrested this week a US man that goes online with the moniker "Pompompurin," the US citizen...
The Russian Government proposed to give a sort of immunity to the hackers that operate in the interests of Moscow. Russian media reported that Alexander Khinshtein, the head of the Duma committee on information policy, announced that the Russian...
Global internet monitor NetBlocks reported that Twitter has been restricted in Turkey in the aftermath of the earthquake. Global internet monitor NetBlocks reported that network data confirm that Twitter has been restricted in Turkey in the aftermath...
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta's WhatsApp €5.5 million for violating data protection laws. The popular messaging app WhatsApp has been fined €5.5m by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating the General Data...
Google will pay $29.5 million to settle two different lawsuits in the US over its deceptive location tracking practices. Google decided to pay $29.5 million to settle two different lawsuits brought by the states of Indiana and Washington, D.C., over...