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Israeli spyware maker NSO Group is investigating reports that its technology was used to target iPhones of some US diplomats in Africa.
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MI6 chief Richard Moore said Britain’s spies must give up some of their deep-rooted secrecy and seek help from technology firms to win a cybersecurity arms race that is giving hostile countries and groups ever more capacity.
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Darktrace came under investor scrutiny over dramatic share price gyrations since its headline-grabbing London stock market float.
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Iran's second-largest airline, Mahan Air, said it had been hit by a cyberattack Sunday, the latest of several targeting the company.
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The US Justice Department announced indictments of two Iranians who allegedly took part in an online "disinformation and threat" campaign to influence American voters in the 2020 presidential election.
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A man employed in the home of Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz was charged Thursday with attempting to spy for the Black Shadow hackers, who are purportedly linked to Iran.
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Facebook said it had worked to block a hacker group that targeted the accounts of people tied to Afghanistan's then-government and security forces as the Taliban was moving in to take power.
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Taiwan's government agencies face around five million cyberattacks and probes a day, an official said, as a report warned of increasing Chinese cyber warfare targeting the self-ruled island.
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Mexican prosecutors said Monday that they had detained a man accused of spying on a journalist using the Pegasus software at the center of a global spyware scandal.
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Iran's fuel distribution system resumed full operation on Tuesday, a week after it was paralysed by a cyber attack, the authorities said.
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Israel's justice ministry said Google had blocked sites of a hacking group that leaked user details of an Israeli LGBTQ dating site, an attack some security experts blamed on Iran.
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A hacking group calling itself Black Shadow threatened Sunday to reveal personal details of users of Israeli's leading LGBTQ dating site, in an attack some cyber experts linked to Iran.
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An Iranian general has said Israel and the United States were likely to have been behind a cyber attack that interrupted the distribution of fuel at service stations.
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Hackers believed to be linked to Iran have breached an Israeli internet hosting company, taking down several of its sites.
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A cyberattack on Papua New Guinea's finance ministry briefly disrupted government payments and operations, officials said late Thursday.
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India's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered an independent investigation into the alleged government use of Pegasus spyware on journalists, opposition politicians and activists with the chief justice calling the implications "Orwellian".
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The United States urged two senior British judges on Wednesday to clear the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and reject a lower court's ruling that he is a suicide risk.
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The United States has banned China Telecom from operating in the country citing "significant" national security concerns, further straining already tense relations between the superpowers.
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Iran struggled Wednesday to restart its petrol distribution system after it was hit by an unprecedented cyber-attack which security officials said was launched from abroad.
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Iranian authorities on blamed a mysterious cyberattack for unprecedented disruption to the country's fuel distribution network.
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UK intelligence agencies have entrusted classified data to Amazon's cloud computing arm AWS in a deal designed to vastly speed up their espionage capabilities, the Financial Times reported.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday that the State Department will establish a new bureau and envoy to handle cyber policy, revamping amid alarm over rising hacking attacks.
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US authorities unveiled long-delayed new rules aimed at clamping down on export to nations like Russia and China of hacking technology amid a sharp uptick in cyberattacks globally.
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Over two dozen nations resolved Thursday to battle collectively against the global and escalating threat posed by cyber-extortionists, following a Washington-led anti-ransomware summit.
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An Israeli hospital was targeted Wednesday by a ransomware attack, officials said, with the state's cyber directorate calling it the first such attack on a hospital in the country.
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