French police and Europol searched the local office of X, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday. The raid is part of an ongoing investigation launched in 2025 on allegations of “fraudulent extraction of data”…
Ireland is considering new legislation to give its law enforcement agencies more surveillance powers, including allowing the use of spyware. The Irish government announced this week the introduction of the Communications (Interception and Lawful Access)…
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies coordinated by Europol targeted and took down three cybercrime operations in its latest round of what authorities call “Operation Endgame.” In a press release, Europol said that the…
Lawmakers have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Flock Safety, a company that operates license plate scanning cameras, for allegedly failing to implement cybersecurity protections that expose its camera network to hackers and…
The police can’t just come and take your Ring security videos without a warrant, but they can ask for your captured video clips, all thanks for a feature in Ring’s Neighbors app. That feature is…
Amazon’s surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement. Now, agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users…
The U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday that a man was arrested in connection to the ransomware attack that has caused delays and disruptions at several European airports since the weekend. The…
Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, and military forces around the world–that made any…
French authorities have arrested a Russian professional basketball player who is accused of being a member of a ransomware gang, according to newswire Agence France-Presse. Daniil Kasatkin plays for MBA Moscow, a team that is…
A joint international law enforcement action shut down two services accused of providing a botnet of hacked internet-connected devices, including routers, to cybercriminals. U.S. prosecutors also indicted four people accused of hacking into the devices…