[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study led by researchers from Michigan State University, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University reveals that ransomware attacks—which involve a hacker putting encryption controls into a file and then demanding a ransom to unlock the files—have become the primary driver of health care data breaches in the United...Read More

[ad_1] Hackers behind a series of destructive, financially motivated cyberattacks against some of the U.K.’s largest retailers are now going after big American brands, Google said Wednesday. “Major American retailers have already been targeted,” John Hultquist, the chief analyst for Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, told NBC News. At least three top British retailers have experienced...Read More

[ad_1] CompTIA announced today it will begin development of a new certification focused on critical cybersecurity skills in operational technology (OT). CompTIA’s proposed SecOT+ certification will bridge critical knowledge and skill gaps between OT and IT. The certification will equip OT positions, such as floor technicians and industrial engineers, and cybersecurity engineers and network architects...Read More

[ad_1] LockBit ransomware hackers have been hacked. getty Scammers who prey on the fears of individuals are high on my list of “most hated” cybercriminals, if I’m being honest, but they are not number one. That honour belongs to the organized ransomware gangs that have absolutely no qualms about attacking hospitals and blood banks, literally...Read More

[ad_1] Fairport, N.Y. (WHAM) — According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York, Tony Rodriguez, 40, of Fairport, used Roblox, a popular online gaming platform, and other social media platforms, communicate with children. BACKGROUND: Fairport man accused of using Roblox to communicate with minors for sex After a mult-agency investigation...Read More

[ad_1] The SAP NetWeaver vulnerability case took an interesting turn Wednesday when the Russian ransomware group BianLian and the operators of RansomEXX were tied to exploitations of the NetWeaver bug.The news of the exploitation by Russian ransomware gangs was in contrast to recent reports by Forescout Vedere Labs that China-based threat groups were involved in...Read More

[ad_1] The Adugodi police in southeastern Bengaluru said they dismantled a cybercrime racket with the arrests of 12 men, mostly hailing from Uttar Pradesh, who allegedly duped people with work-from-home scams described as too good to be true. At the heart of the operation were two unlikely masterminds—Harshavardhan Ojha, a 25-year-old BTech graduate from Balia,...Read More

[ad_1] BOSTON — A registered sex offender in Massachusetts is among convicted child sexual predators, who are in the country illegally, arrested by federal officers in several states on Monday, ICE officials said Wednesday. Carlos Araujo of Leominster, an Uruguayan national, is among four men arrested Monday in Massachusetts, California, New York and Texas, U.S....Read More

[ad_1] Ransomware gangs have joined ongoing SAP NetWeaver attacks, exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows threat actors to gain remote code execution on vulnerable servers. SAP released emergency patches on April 24 to address this NetWeaver Visual Composer unauthenticated file upload security flaw (CVE-2025-31324), days after it was first tagged by cybersecurity company ReliaQuest as...Read More

[ad_1] A former Meta employee has accused the company of knowingly allowing children onto its virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds, despite safety risks and potential violations of federal law. Kelly Stonelake, who worked for the company for nearly 15 years and led product marketing for Horizon Worlds until early 2024, submitted a sworn statement as...Read More