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2026-09-23 The Record by Recorded Future

Burnham announces plan for new UK center to fight disinformation

The United Kingdom will create a new national center "to detect, attribute and disrupt” hostile state disinformation, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced at the United Nations General Assembly.

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2026-09-22 The Record by Recorded Future

Canadian regulator opens probe of IDScan for allegedly violating data privacy laws

The investigation, announced Monday, will probe IDScan’s security practices and whether victim notifications were adequate under Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law, the regulator said in a press release.

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2026-09-22 The Record by Recorded Future

Two arrested in UK after Microsoft takedown of ‘Eviltokens’ AI-chatbot for cybercriminals

Available on Telegram for a $1,500 initiation fee and a recurring monthly $500 subscription, EvilTokens provided cybercriminals with artificial intelligence tools enabling them to compromise accounts, analyze breached inboxes and find the best methods for monetizing their access through fraud.

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2026-09-22 The Record by Recorded Future

AI is set to help cyber attackers much more than defenders, says UK official

Dave Chismon, the NCSC’s chief technology officer for architecture, said in a blog post that the imbalance in AI means cyberattacks would likely grow as automated defenses struggle to keep pace.

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2026-09-22 The Record by Recorded Future

Russia's internet shutdowns disrupt warnings about incoming drone attacks

Russia’s growing restrictions on mobile internet and cellular service are making it harder for people to receive warnings about incoming Ukrainian drone and missile attacks.

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2026-09-21 The Record by Recorded Future

EU data regulator fines Google more than $460 million for location data violations

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission will fine Google more than €403 million ($462 million) over the tech giant’s processing of location data, concluding an inquiry into the company that began in early 2020.

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2026-09-21 The Record by Recorded Future

Belgian table tennis, gymnastics federations hit by cyberattacks

Belgium’s national table tennis federation is investigating a cyberattack after a hacker claimed to have stolen data on tens of thousands of members.

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2026-09-21 The Record by Recorded Future

Cyberattack hits University of Munich, potentially exposing student financial data

The university, commonly known as LMU Munich, said Saturday that an attacker accessed enrollment data stored on one of its IT systems.

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2026-09-21 The Record by Recorded Future

ShinyHunters cybercrime gang takes over Cl0p ransomware site, demands extortion payment

The ShinyHunters extortion group hijacked the dark web leak site of the prolific Cl0p ransomware gang, according to material posted on the site over the weekend.

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2026-09-21 The Record by Recorded Future

LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data

The agreement between LinkedIn, ProAPIs and joint business operator Netswift also requires the firms to stop selling and transferring the data, no longer access LinkedIn through fake accounts and delete the data that was scraped, according to a senior LinkedIn executive.

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2026-09-21 The Record by Recorded Future

Google says Gemini breached three companies during security test

Google’s artificial intelligence model Gemini accessed computer systems belonging to three real companies without authorization during a cybersecurity test in May — the latest in a string of similar incidents.

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2026-09-18 The Record by Recorded Future

Nations take action on North Korean IT workers after UN report

A report published Wednesday said that as of July, Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan and Argentina took meaningful steps to respond to allegations involving North Korea listed in an October study.

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2026-09-18 The Record by Recorded Future

Hacking group ‘NightEagle’ targeting China’s high-tech sector expands operations to Russia

Over the past year, Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said it investigated several incidents involving the group at Russian businesses.

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2026-09-18 The Record by Recorded Future

North Korean hackers infect thousands of devices across 100 countries as part of ‘WaterPlum’ campaign

The FBI and Defense Department partnered with Japan’s National Police Agency and law enforcement agencies in Australia and Germany on a new advisory about “WaterPlum” — a group of cyber actors allegedly stealing cryptocurrency from job applicants by posing as AI or blockchain companies.

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2026-09-17 The Record by Recorded Future

European Commission set to push social media restrictions, safety requirements into law

The proposal, known as the EU KIDS Act, would block social media platforms from offering accounts to children younger than 13 and establish a bloc-wide minimum age of 15 for account creation.

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2026-09-17 The Record by Recorded Future

China’s FamousSparrow hackers target Latin America with new backdoor

Alleged Chinese hackers are breaking into government agencies across Latin America using a new backdoor that researchers are calling “SparroWocky.”

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2026-09-17 The Record by Recorded Future

Hackers claim breach of Russian election systems days before parliamentary vote

An anonymous hacking group claimed to have broken into computer systems connected to Russia’s election infrastructure just days before the country begins voting for a new parliament.

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2026-09-17 The Record by Recorded Future

Congress eyes new support for Cyber Command after recent suicide deaths

Congressional sources say they view the deaths of U.S. Cyber Command personnel as an inflection point, especially as the Pentagon’s appetite for cyber capabilities grows following successful contributions to high-profile missions against Iran and Venezuela.

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2026-09-17 The Record by Recorded Future

Israeli contractor BlackCore trained Angolan officials in online influence operations

An Israeli influence-for-hire company trained Angolan government officials to run online influence operations, including by creating fake social media personas and media outlets, researchers found.

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2026-09-16 The Record by Recorded Future

Key lawmaker suggests action on AI safety legislation will wait until 2027

“It's really complicated, and I wouldn't want to do something in a lame duck session to do it quickly and not get it right,” said House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie about the FRONTIER Act.

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2026-09-16 The Record by Recorded Future

Coast Guard, FBI boarded tanker after attack by ‘foreign cyber actors’

U.S. personnel boarded an oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico to “ensure integrity of the vessel’s operational and information technology systems," after an apparent cyberattack, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

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2026-09-16 The Record by Recorded Future

House passes bill to equip local law enforcement with scam-fighting tools

The Guarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception Act (GUARD) attempts to address a common complaint from the victims of online scams like pig butchering — that such cases typically do not rise to the level of a federal investigation but local law enforcement is unequipped to properly investigate them.

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2026-09-16 The Record by Recorded Future

International Meteor Organization says cyberattack dealt ‘critical blow’ to website

A website used around the world for reporting meteors faces weeks of downtime as the organization moves away from systems that were hacked recently.

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2026-09-16 The Record by Recorded Future

Three Ukrainians to face charges for alleged hack of 610,000 Roblox accounts

Three Ukrainians are set to stand trial for allegedly stealing access to more than 610,000 Roblox accounts and selling them to buyers in Russia, authorities said.

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