Liv McMahon, Joe Tidy & Brandon Drenon BBC News Getty Images Bitcoin’s price reaching a new high of $120,000 (£89,000) – buoyed by US President Donald Trump’s crypto-friendly stance – has kept the buzzy world of cryptocurrencies in the spotlight. But it also contains confusing terms such as ETFs, blockchains and cold wallets, that can…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday he had nominated first deputy prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko to lead his cabinet and “significantly renew its work”, in the most notable shake-up of his government since Russia’s…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 14th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES McDonald’s has suffered a data breach that resulted in the exposure of chat transcripts, session tokens, and personal data from more than 64 million job applications submitted through its AI powered McHire…
Some Paddy Power and Betfair customers have been warned to “remain vigilant” after a hack of up to 800,000 users. A spokesperson for Flutter Entertainment, which owns the online gambling brands, confirmed to the BBC it had “suffered a data incident.” Some personal information including IP addresses, email addresses, and online activity data has been…
For years, so-called “nudify” apps and websites have mushroomed online, allowing people to create nonconsensual and abusive images of women and girls, including child sexual abuse material. Despite some lawmakers and tech companies taking steps to limit the harmful services, every month, millions of people are still accessing the websites, and the sites’ creators may…
The RocketGenius website served a malicious variant of the Gravity Forms WordPress add-on for two days The variant harvested extensive information and allowed for RCE The malware affected only manual downloads and composer installations Gravity Forms, a popular WordPress add-on with at least a million users, was victim of a supply chain attack in which…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine hit back in its shadow war with Russia this weekend by “eliminating” two operatives allegedly responsible for the most prominent targeted killing in Kyiv since Moscow’s full-scale invasion began. The operation followed the…
Huawei has won a contract to provide digital storage for the Spanish Government The Chinese tech giant will store and classify court-ordered wiretaps This contrasts other western states that now largely avoid Huawei, and Chinese tech Any Spanish government wiretaps carried out by law enforcement agencies will soon be managed by Chinese telecom giant Huawei…
Baltimore Orioles’ Ryan O’Hearn (32) and Gunnar Henderson, center, celebrate after both scoring on a … More two-run RBI hit by Ramon Laureano during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets, Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved The Baltimore…
An MP accused of sexually assaulting two women at a private members’ club in London must wait nearly a year before going on trial. Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Patrick Spencer, 37, has been accused of assaults on two women at The Groucho Club in Soho on the same day in August 2023 –…
