Domestic Kitten, a mass mobile surveillance operation, has been targeting Iranian citizens using a new spyware strain masquerading as a translation app, according to new research from the cybersecurity firm ESET.

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) placed Myanmar on its blacklist for money laundering and terrorism financing alongside North Korea and Iran – the organization announced on Friday.

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest friends used the services of at least four U.K. and U.S. law firms to challenge international sanctions against him, the Intercept news organization revealed Wednesday in its latest investigation.

Anglian Water, a U.K. water company, was fined £871,000 (US$976,200) Wednesday for its inability to prevent a series of sewage spills into the environment that noticeably harmed local marine life.

The European Parliament paid tribute to Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on Thursday, nearly a week after the 5th anniversary of her assasination and after a court in Valletta sent her killers behind bars for decades.

Georgian authorities on Tuesday arrested nine people, including one public official, in connection with last week’s electrocution in Tbilisi’s newly refurbished fountain that killed a 13-year-old girl and injured two children – said the Interior Ministry in a statement.

A federal court in New York sent on Monday a drug kingpin and paramilitary leader whom Colombia extradited in 2018 to prison for 35 years, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a statement.

Lafarge, the world’s largest cement manufacturer, pleaded guilty in a U.S. court Tuesday to conspiring to finance terrorist organizations, including the Islamic State, in exchange for preferential treatment for its Syria-based operations.

The U.S. Treasury imposed on Monday sanctions on 10 individuals managing al-Shabab’s financing networks and supplying the group with weapons for the terrorist group.

A man named Avraham Eisenberg revealed himself to be one of the hackers behind last week’s US$114 million exploit of decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Mango Markets, and returned $67 million as he defended his actions to be a “highly profitable trading strategy.”