Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Japanese multinational conglomerate Hitachi, was forced to take servers offline over the weekend to contain an Akira ransomware attack. The company provides data storage, infrastructure systems, cloud management, and ransomware recovery services to government entities and some of the world’s biggest brands, including BMW, Telefónica, T-Mobile, and China Telecom. In...Read More
Overview of Operation Red Card Between November 2024 and February 2025, the Red Card Operation emerged as a pivotal component of INTERPOL’s African Joint Operation Against Cybercrime (AFJOC). This collaborative operation united law enforcement bodies from Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Togo, and Zambia, aiming to dismantle sophisticated cybercrime networks. Preparation and Intelligence...Read More
Ten men have been charged in connection with a Berkshire County child predator sting operation, the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. Police identified the suspects while conducting a grant-funded operation targeting human traffickers, the district attorney’s office said in a press release. As part of the operation, law enforcement officers posed as 14-...Read More
A new annual report from the FBI ranks Texas #2 nationally for internet crime complaints. Not good. The 2024 Internet Crime Report shows that nearly 900,000 complaints were filed nationwide, with losses exceeding $16 billion — a sharp 33% increase over the losses reported in 2023. According to the report, $1.6 billion of those losses...Read More
AURORA, CO — An airline pilot, with ties to Phoenix, was arrested in Aurora, Colorado following a multi-agency online child predator operation that began last month. Ralph Edward Bledsoe, 68, of Florissant was arrested, the Aurora Police Department said. ABC15 Bledsoe, an airline pilot, was arrested on Tuesday, April 8, after he arrived at an...Read More
View Transcript 00:00:01:01 – 00:00:26:02Tom HaederleWelcome to Advancing Health. Cybersecurity is a risk. And because of that, a priority for all hospitals and health systems. In this Leadership Dialogue, Tina Freese Decker, chair of the American Hospital Association, and John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk, discuss planning for cyber attacks, putting protections...Read More
A major ransomware group is rebranding as a “cartel” and expanding its business model. It’s part of a relatively new development in the world of cybersecurity known as RaaS, or ransomware-as-a-service. According to cybersecurity firm Secureworks, which obtained screenshots of the March 19 announcement from an underground forum, DragonForce is shifting to a distributed model,...Read More
DragonForce is selling its ransomware as a service that can be rebranded The group will handle malware development, leak sites, and more RaaS democratizes malware – as if AI hadn’t done enough damage Inspired by drug gangs, ransomware group DragonForce is bringing a new business model to the ransomware scene, and it involves cooperating with...Read More
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo – A Corpus Christi, Texas woman was scheduled to appear for a motion hearing in Clay County Court this morning (Mon.) for alleged cybercrimes against the Excelsior Springs School District. According to a probable cause statement, the Excelsior Springs Police Department began an investigation in February 2022 regarding an e-mail scam that led...Read More
