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The bellwether lawsuit was the first of at least 1,200 to be brought by a school district against Meta, Snap, YouTube and TikTok for similar alleged harms. The other cases have not yet been tried.

The hacking group claimed to be a standalone hacktivist crew but actually has ties to the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran (MOIS), researchers at Gambit Security said in a report published Tuesday.

Dragomir was arrested in Romania in November 2024 and brought to the U.S. last year to face charges for hacking into the network belonging to Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management.

NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD) backlog mushroomed from 13,000 unprocessed security vulnerabilities in February 2024 to more than 27,000 by the end of 2025, “undermining the NVD’s utility and public trust," according to an inspector general report.

The order notes that federal access to the models should be subject to “appropriate confidentiality, cybersecurity, insider-risk, and intellectual-property protection, use, and nondisclosure requirements.”

The binding operational directive will focus in part on “vulnerability alleviation and vulnerability management,” Andersen said in remarks delivered at the TechNet Cyber conference in Baltimore.

WhatsApp said it is filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent injunction that bars it from mounting attacks against its users.

A binding operational directive being released Wednesday will direct federal agencies to change the way they address vulnerabilities by elevating some while putting others to the side.

About 7 million customers of the genetics testing company had their data stolen by hackers starting in April 2023, and many had their information posted on the dark web.

Warner on Tuesday also wrote a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, underscoring that DHS must prioritize CISA and pay for the MS-ISAC.