The Spanish police have arrested two individuals in the province of Las Palmas for their alleged involvement in cybercriminal activity, including data theft from the country's government.
The duo has been described as a "serious threat to national security" and focused their attacks on high-ranking state officials as well as journalists. They leaked samples of the stolen data online to build notoriety and inflate the selling price.
"The investigation began when agents detected the leakage of personal data affecting high-level institutions of the State across various mass communication channels and social networks," reads the police announcement.
"These sensitive data were directly linked to politicians, members of the central and regional governments, and media professionals."
The first suspect is believed to have specialized in data exfiltration, while the second managed the financial part by selling access to databases and credentials, and holding the cryptocurrency wallet that received the funds.
The two were arrested yesterday at their homes. During the raids, the police confiscated a large number of electronic devices that may lead to more incriminating evidence, buyers, or co-conspirators.
Roughly 16% of Swiss federal politicians had their official government email leaked on the dark web. This puts them at risk of phishing attacks or blackmail.
In the latest installment of our investigation into politicians’ cybersecurity practices, we found the official government email addresses of 44 Swiss politicians for sale on the dark web, roughly 16% of the 277 emails we searched. Constella Intelligence(new window) helped us compile this information.
Sharp-eyed readers might wonder why we searched for 277 email addresses if there are only 253 politicians between the Council of States, Federal Council, and National Council. The explanation is some politicians publicly share another email address along with their official government one. In these cases, we searched for both.
Since these email addresses are all publicly available, it’s not an issue that they’re on the dark web. However, it is an issue that they appear in data breaches, meaning Swiss politicians violated cybersecurity best practices and used their official emails to create accounts with services like Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Adobe, although there is evidence some Swiss politicians used their government email address to sign up for adult and dating platforms.
We’re not sharing identifying information for obvious reasons, and we notified every affected politician before we published this article.
Swiss politicians performed roughly as well as their European colleagues, having few fewer elected officials with exposed information than the UK (68%), the European Parliament (41%), and France (18%), and only slightly more than Italy (15%).
It should be noted that even a single compromised account could have significant ramifications on national security. And this isn’t a hypothetical. The Swiss government is actively being targeted on a regular basis. In 2025, hackers used DDoS attacks(new window) to knock the Swiss Federal Administration’s telephones, websites, and services offline. In 2024, Switzerland’s National Cyber Security Center published a report stating the Play ransomware group stole 65,000 government documents(new window) containing classified information from a government provider.
TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned. The data stolen by the hacker contains the contents of some direct messages and group chats sent using its Signal clone, as well as modified versions of WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat. TeleMessage was recently the center of a wave of media coverage after Mike Waltz accidentally revealed he used the tool in a cabinet meeting with President Trump.
The hack shows that an app gathering messages of the highest ranking officials in the government—Waltz’s chats on the app include recipients that appear to be Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, and JD Vance—contained serious vulnerabilities that allowed a hacker to trivially access the archived chats of some people who used the same tool. The hacker has not obtained the messages of cabinet members, Waltz, and people he spoke to, but the hack shows that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modified version of the messaging app and the ultimate archive destination controlled by the TeleMessage customer.
A cyberattack has forced the government-run South African Weather Service (SAWS) offline, limiting access to a critical service used by the country’s airlines, farmers and allies.
The website for SAWS has been down since Sunday evening, according to a statement posted to social media. SAWS has had to use Facebook, X and other sites to share daily information on thunderstorms, wildfires and other weather events.
OpenAI on Tuesday announced the launch of ChatGPT for government agencies in the U.S. ...It allows government agencies, as customers, to feed “non-public, sensitive information” into OpenAI’s models while operating within their own secure hosting environments, OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil told reporters during a briefing Monday.
Chinese hackers breached the US government office that reviews foreign investments for national security risks, three US officials familiar with the matter told CNN.
The theft, which has not previously been reported, underscores Beijing’s keen interest in spying on a US government office that has broad powers to block Chinese investment in the US as tensions between the world’s two superpowers remain high.
The breach was part of a broader incursion by the hackers into the Treasury Department’s unclassified system. The office targeted by the hackers, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS), in December gained greater authority to scrutinize real estate sales near US military bases. US lawmakers and national security officials have grown increasingly worried that the Chinese government or its proxies could use land acquisitions to spy on those bases.
Several websites were inaccessible for a two-hour period on Friday afternoon
Prohibition would bring the NHS, schools and local councils into line with government departments
Threat actors sponsored by China “compromised” government networks over the past five years and collected valuable information, says a new report from Canada’s cyber spy agency.
“As a result of a multi-step national security review process, which involves rigorous scrutiny by Canada’s national security and intelligence community, the Government of Canada has ordered the wind up of the Canadian business carried on by TikTok Technology Canada, Inc. The government is taking action to address the specific national security risks related to ByteDance Ltd.’s operations in Canada through the establishment of TikTok Technology Canada, Inc. The decision was based on the information and evidence collected over the course of the review and on the advice of Canada’s security and intelligence community and other government partners.
Most of the funds drained from a U.S. government crypto wallet in an apparent attack Thursday were sent back early Friday.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered on Friday an audit of government data centres after officials said the bulk of data affected by a recent ransomware cyberattack was not backed up, exposing the country's vulnerability to such attacks.
Last week's cyberattack, the worst in Indonesia in recent years, has disrupted multiple government services including immigration and operations at major airports.
A cohort of Russian-speaking hackers is demanding $50 million from a UK lab-services provider to end a ransomware attack that has paralyzed services at London hospitals for weeks, according to a representative for the group.
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Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.
A previously discovered vulnerability affecting self-hosted Cisco Webex instances similarly affected the Webex cloud service.
CISA publicly released an emergency directive issued to federal agencies earlier this month, detailing how a breach at Microsoft could have affected the government.
China has introduced guidelines to phase out U.S. microprocessors from Intel (INTC.O), opens new tab and AMD (AMD.O), opens new tab from government personal computers and servers, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
The procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft's (MSFT.O), opens new tab Windows operating system and foreign-made database software in favour of domestic options, the report said.
The French government said it would seek “a national solution” to protect Atos, a debt-burdened company that serves nuclear programs and the military.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland has released a report on its analysis of a data breach following a ransomware attack on Xplain, disclosing that the incident impacted thousands of sensitive Federal government files.
Poland’s new prime minister says he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used the powerful Pegasus spyware illegally and targeted a “very long” list of hacking victims.
