Top stories.
- Verizon restores services following widespread outage.
- Poland says it thwarted suspected Russian cyberattack against energy infrastructure.
- Microsoft disrupts the RedVDS cybercrime subscription service.
Verizon restores services following widespread outage.
Verizon sustained a widespread wireless outage yesterday that disrupted cellular data and voice services for much of the US throughout the day. The company said in a statement last night, "The outage has been resolved. If customers are still having an issue, we encourage them to restart their devices to reconnect to the network." Verizon hasn't disclosed the cause, but said there was no indication of a cyberattack. Likewise, multiple law enforcement agencies told ABC News that the outage appeared to have been caused by a technical issue. The most affected cities included New York, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, and Miami.
Officials in New York said the outage prevented some 911 calls from going through. NBC reports that emergency notification systems in Washington, DC, New York City, and other major cities sent messages to residents telling them to use a different carrier to call 911.
Verizon says it will give account credits to customers affected by the outage.
Poland says it thwarted suspected Russian cyberattack against energy infrastructure.
Poland says it thwarted a serious cyberattack against its energy infrastructure in December 2025, the Record reports. Poland's Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski told local media, "The scale of this attack, the vector of entry, and who was behind it indicate that it was a deliberate attempt to cut off power to Polish citizens. Everything points to Russian sabotage."
Notably, the attack targeted multiple smaller power sources simultaneously, unlike previous attacks that targeted central power plants or transmission networks. Gawkowski stated, "We have not seen this type of attack before, but we should expect it to happen again."
Microsoft disrupts the RedVDS cybercrime subscription service.
Microsoft yesterday announced a coordinated legal action in the US and the UK that disrupted the RedVDS cybercrime subscription service. RedVDS charges a low monthly fee to provide criminals with access to "disposable virtual computers that make fraud cheap, scalable, and difficult to trace."
Microsoft seized "two domains that host the RedVDS marketplace and customer portal, while also laying the groundwork to identify the individuals behind them." The legal actions were supported by German police and Europol.
