Bulgaria allowed surveillance tech firm to sell products to repressive regimes, report says

2026-06-19T08:51:57Z8ad4727b0226feff6a67c0dce15388b5e872525b6b7258e56db2dc2700155f28
CISACirclesDHSEU cybersecurity reserveGentlemen (ransomware)MS-ISACNCSCUkrainecritical infrastructurehuman-rightsnation-state threatransomwaresurveillance export controls

What happened

Collection of cybersecurity and surveillance stories: Human Rights Watch found Bulgarian export licenses allowed surveillance firm Circles to sell to law-enforcement/intel bodies in countries with records of human-rights abuses; Australian sugar producer Mackay Sugar was hit by a claimed ransomware attack attributed to a prolific group; UK NCSC CEO warned that nation-state actors are prepositioning in critical infrastructure and enabling future kinetic targeting; the EU granted Ukraine access to its pool of pre-approved cybersecurity incident response vendors; and Senator Warner warned of CISA

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