Philadelphia, Pa. — The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2024 annual report, which combines information collected from 859,532 complaints. The report also details losses exceeding $16 billion, which represents a 33% increase from 2023. The top three cybercrimes by number of complaints in 2024 were: phishing/spoofing, extortion, and personal data breaches. The...Read More
Jeffrey Bowie, CEO of cybersecurity firm Veritaco, was arrested on April 14, 2025, facing two counts of violating Oklahoma’s Computer Crimes Act for allegedly installing malware on computers at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City. The incident, which occurred on August 6, 2024, has raised serious concerns about insider threats in healthcare cybersecurity. According to...Read More
Cybersecurity companies are not immune to the threats they defend against, reports CyberScoop. A new report from SentinelOne’s SentinelLabs highlights how cybercriminals and nation-state actors are increasingly targeting security vendors themselves. The report outlines various real-world intrusion attempts, demonstrating that cybersecurity firms sit at a critical point where access to protected environments makes them attractive to...Read More
MONROE, Mich. (WTVG) – A new law took effect in Michigan Wednesday in an effort to keep children safer, especially when it comes to car accidents. The Child Passenger Safety Law implements stricter guidelines for how children should be secured in a vehicle to ensure they remain safe at all times. The number one tip...Read More
The Trump administration has disbanded a school safety board that was recently assembled to advise federal agencies on best practices to protect students. The Federal School Safety Clearinghouse External Advisory Board, which held its first meeting in October, included school safety experts, alongside the parents of children who died in school shootings, advocates for civil...Read More
MONROE COUNTY — Monroe County Sheriff Troy Goodnough announced the arrest of a Newport man following an investigation by the Violent Internet Predator Exploitation Response team. 58-year-old Silvio Berge, a German citizen in the United States on a visa, was arrested after a month-long investigation. During the investigation, VIPER detectives were targeted online, where they were groomed...Read More
HAMILTON COUNTY, Tennessee (WDEF) – Hamilton County Sheriff Austin Garrett reports progress in the recovery from a ransomware attack. The Sheriff’s Office was hit on the morning of April 14. “Since the incident occurred, the HCSO has been working methodically and diligently alongside an external cyber defense firm to preserve and examine this cyber-ransomware event...Read More
In February 2016, hacktivist group Anonymous published a YouTube video with information about 20 different distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack tools that were available to the public. And, thus, DDoS attacks were democratized. Anyone with a grievance and an internet connection could successfully launch an attack without a barrier to entry. As if the accessibility of...Read More
Police say more people are being investigated and further arrests may happen. TURLOCK, Calif. — A dozen arrests were made as part of a multi-agency sting operation led by the Turlock Police Department, targeting suspected online child predators. The three-day operation, conducted from March 6 to 8 in an online chat room, resulted in 12...Read More
A PUNE based multinational biopharmaceutical company was targeted in a ransomware attack in which the cyber criminals compromised and encrypted the critical data on their servers and demanded 80,000 USD for its decryption key. The attackers threatened to sell the proprietary data on the dark web if the ransom demand was not met, police said....Read More
