Officials are reportedly blaming a recent breach of the U.S. federal court's filing system on Russia, whose hackers used the access to snoop on midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and other jurisdictions.

Two hackers broke into the computer of a North Korean government hacker and leaked its contents, offering a rare glimpse inside the secretive nation's spying operations.

Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

Cisco disclosed a data breach including customer names, organization names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of Cisco.com users.

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The bug in the modified messaging app can expose users' “plaintext usernames, passwords, and other sensitive data,” per GreyNoise.

The video game giant banned an unknown number of cheaters that were using one of the oldest-running cheats.

Analysis: In calling itself an ethical spyware vendor, Paragon has opened itself up to scrutiny of its government customers.

Daniil Kasatkin was reportedly arrested in a Paris airport on June 21 at the request of U.S. authorities.

Activision last week brought offline the Microsoft Store version of Call of Duty: WWII as the company was investigating “reports of an issue.”

The government cited the recent hacks on Bank Sepah and cryptocurrency exchange Nobitex as reasons to shut down internet access to virtually all Iranians.

A parliamentary investigation answered some — but not all — the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli company’s spyware, Graphite.

Google's Threat Analysis Group, which investigates government-backed hacks, was credited with the discovery of the zero-days.

Sen. Ron Wyden said in a letter that one U.S. phone carrier turned over Senate data to law enforcement without notifying the target.

The Department of Justice announced Eric Council Jr. was sentenced to 14 months in prison for the hack.

The landmark trial between WhatsApp and NSO Group unearthed several new revelations. We recap some of them here.

The researchers said the attackers behind the campaign had "deep understanding of the target community."

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The list of 1,223 victims in 51 countries hints at the “true scale of the spyware problem,” per one researcher.

The advisories say the spyware apps are used to target members of civil society who may oppose China’s state interests.