SecurityWeek’s cybersecurity news roundup for July 4, 2025 provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories.

In 2018, a hacker hired by the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel run by the infamous kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán spied on the ...

The Sinaloa cartel used information obtained by the hacker "to intimidate and, in some instances, kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses," the Justice Department said.

Justice Department reveals cartel hacker compromised FBI attaché's phone data and used city surveillance to eliminate ...

The hacker was able to break into the agent’s phone remotely and watch their incoming and outgoing calls, and even monitor ...

A federal report says in 2018 the Sinaloa Cartel hired a hacker to track an FBI agent to find informants and witnesses ...

Sometimes the surveillance state gets turned against itself. That seems to be what resulted in the unfortunate demise of a ...

The Sinaloa Cartel hacked a top US law enforcement agency and obtained classified information that was later used to ...

The stunning new details offer a rare look at how technology can be exploited in the high-stakes battle between US law enforcement and the violent Mexican cartels that control illicit drug trade.

“According to the FBI, the hacker also used Mexico City’s camera system to follow the [attache] through the city and identify ...

The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as part ...

A Mexican drug cartel hired a hacker to surveil the movements of a senior FBI official in Mexico City in 2018 or earlier, ...