Yesterday, following a DMCA complaint, GitHub took down a repository that hosts the official SymPy project documentation website. It turns out the DMCA notice filed by HackerRank's representatives was sent out in error and generated much backlash from the open source community. The DMCA notice has since been rescinded.
Binance has announced some significant changes in its services for Russia-based users, which mark the company's effort to align with European Union's fifth wave of sanctions against Russia.
Today, the U.S. has announced exemptions on previously imposed sanctions on Russia related to telecommunications and internet-based communications, likely to prevent Russians from being isolated from Western news sources.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office has announced sanctions against the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, which has been linked to illegal transactions for Hydra Market.
The servers of Hydra Market, the most prominent Russian darknet platform for selling drugs and money laundering, have been seized by the German police.
The European Parliament has taken the first steps for new legislation against money-laundering that covers cryptocurrency transactions, which are an important part of illicit activities today.
A coordinated operation conducted by the FBI and its international law enforcement partners has resulted in disrupting business email compromise (BEC) schemes in several countries.
Europol has announced the arrest of 108 people suspected of being involved in an international call center operation that tricked victims into investment scams.
Russia faces a critical IT storage crisis after Western cloud providers pulled out of the country, leaving Russia with only two more months before they run out of data storage.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that alleged REvil ransomware affiliate, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, was extradited to the United States last week to stand trial for the Kaseya cyberattack.
The Italian privacy guarantor (GPDP) has imposed a fine of €20,000,000 on Clearview AI for implementing a biometric monitoring network in Italy without acquiring people's consent.
The Russian authorities are drafting a set of measures to support the country's economy against the pressure of foreign sanctions, and when it comes to software licensing, the proposal greenlights a form of piracy.
A group of 38 cybersecurity professors and IT experts worldwide, together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), have cosigned a letter to EU regulators that warns of a proposal that could expose internet users to cybercrime.
A Nigerian national named Charles Onus has pled guilty in the District Court of the Southern District of New York to hacking into a payroll company's user accounts and stealing payroll deposits.
Spanish National Police has arrested eight suspects allegedly part of a crime ring who drained bank accounts in a series of SIM swapping attacks.
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the indictment of several India-based call centers and their directors for targeting Americans with Social Security, IRS, and loan phone call scams.
Law enforcement authorities from 10 countries took down VPNLab.net, a VPN service provider used by ransomware operators and malware actors.
Ukrainian police officers have arrested a ransomware affiliate group responsible for attacking at least 50 companies in the U.S. and Europe.
Diversity recruiting site Canvas.com has been ordered by a U.S. District judge to drop the use of the domain name over a trademark dispute.
France's National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), the country's data privacy and protection body, has announced a 60 million euro ($68 million) sanction against Facebook and a 150 million euro ($170 million) penalty against Google.