A hacking group called Scattered Spider is believed to be behind the reported ransomware attack on Marks & Spencer.
Agency says gangs caused $37bn in losses in Asia as they gain new footholds in Africa, South America, and Middle East.
These are the key developments on day 1,125 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The group operated from a van to wage cyberattacks on companies and banks and steal sensitive information.
Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in scamming farms across Southeast Asia.
City-state’s new anti-scam law sparks debate about paternalistic governance embodied by founding father Lee Kuan Yew.
Department of the Treasury calls cyberattack a ‘major incident’, accuses China-backed hackers.
Beijing denies the allegation calling it groundless and says it opposes ‘the spread of false information’.
Amnesty International claims Serbian activists’ phones hacked by police with spyware tools, raising privacy concerns.
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Some firewalls targeted in the US were protecting critical infrastructure companies, the US Treasury Department says.
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Infrastructure in several NATO states has been damaged in recent months, with ‘sabotage’ suspected.
As Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon continue without pause, the region’s long-fought shadow wars are gaining form.
Russian Embassy in Washington, DC says insinuations of Moscow’s interference in US election are ‘malicious slander’.
FBI is investigating alleged access to mobile phone networks by people associated with Beijing.
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