The Biden administration added two Europe-based hacking firms controlled by an Israeli former general to a Commerce Department blacklist, marking its latest effort to try to rein in a spyware industry that has spiraled out of control in recent years.

Countries globally have embraced commercial spyware for the new powers of surveillance it gives them. The Israeli firm NSO held a near monopoly in the industry for nearly a decade, selling Pegasus to Mexico, Saudi Arabia, India, and other nations.

A Brooklyn hospital group that serves patients in some of New York’s poorest neighborhoods has been battling the consequences of a cyberattack that forced some critical services offline.

The Metropolitan Opera has been the victim of a cyberattack that has kept its website and box office out of commission for more than 30 hours, the company’s general manager said on Wednesday.

A day after it filed for bankruptcy, the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX said that it was investigating “unauthorized transactions” flowing from its accounts, as crypto researchers documented suspicious transfers of $515 million.

The web browser used within the TikTok app can track every keystroke made by its users, according to new research that is surfacing as the Chinese-owned video app grapples with U.S. lawmakers’ concerns over its data practices.

Hackers claim to have broken into dozens of Russian institutions over the past two months, including the Kremlin’s internet censor and one of its primary intelligence services, leaking emails and internal documents to the public.

In the Biden administration’s latest crackdown, the Justice Department also announced that it had seized $6.1 million in ransom paid to a Russian national who deployed REvil against Texan entities.

More than a dozen prominent cybersecurity experts raised concerns on plans by Apple and the EU to monitor people’s phones for illicit material, calling the efforts ineffective and dangerous strategies that would embolden government surveillance.

The claim of the breach came from an anonymous account on a hacking forum that, according to Vice, obtained access to the database from a supposed company called “X2Emails.”