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

Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been arrested for illegally entering the US and faces deportation to Mexico, where he is wanted for organized crime. Chávez, having overstayed a visa, was ...

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

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

A notorious drug cartel enlisted a hacker who was able to infiltrate phone data and Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to ...

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

A hacker employed by Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel infiltrated FBI surveillance operations as recently as 2018, according to the ...

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

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

Device compromises and deep-seated access to critical infrastructure exposed surveillance vulnerabilities in agency's work A ...