[ad_1] BlackBerry (BB, Financial) has increased its annual revenue forecast, anticipating sustained demand for its cybersecurity services as cybercrime continues to rise. This announcement led to a 6% increase in the company’s U.S.-listed shares in after-hours trading. The surge in cybercrime and hacking incidents has prompted companies to invest heavily in cybersecurity, benefiting providers like...Read More
[ad_1] Cyberattacks against government agencies are escalating at an alarming pace. From state departments to small municipal offices, public sector organizations have become prime targets for ransomware, credential theft, and increasingly sophisticated supply chain attacks. What once were isolated breaches have evolved into systemic risks threatening public safety, economic stability, and national security. Behind this...Read More
[ad_1] A Wyoming man busted by a vigilante child predator patrol YouTuber will serve 10 years in federal prison after admitting to possessing child pornography. Federal District Judge Alan Johnson sentenced Sean Joseph Brennan, 58, of Hudson, to 120 months Tuesday afternoon in the Joseph O’Mahoney Federal Building in Cheyenne. Johnson also imposed 10 years of supervision...Read More
[ad_1] McLaren Health Care, a nonprofit healthcare system with a network of hospitals and clinics across Michigan and Indiana, has revealed a significant data breach that may have compromised the personal and medical information of approximately 743,000 patients. The breach stemmed from a ransomware attack that targeted the Karmanos Cancer Institute branch last summer. FCRF...Read More
[ad_1] Executive Summary Unit 42 researchers have been monitoring a series of attacks targeting financial organizations across Africa. We assess that the threat actor may be gaining initial access to these financial institutions and then selling it to others on the dark web. Since at least July 2023, a cluster of activity we track as...Read More
[ad_1] Nearly half of organisations hit by ransomware attacks in the past year chose to pay the ransom, making it the second-highest ransom payment rate in six years, according to Sophos, a cybersecurity solutions provider. According to its ‘State of Ransomware 2025’ report, 53 percent of those who paid negotiated a lower amount than the...Read More
[ad_1] A new report by the international police organisation has revealed escalating levels of cyber-crime across the continent and inadequate capabilities to fight it. INTERPOL has confirmed spiking rates of cyber-crime across Africa in its latest Africa Cyberthreat Assessment Report. Published yesterday (23 June), the agency confirmed that cyber-crime accounted for over 30% of all...Read More
[ad_1] Prodatix Case Study: Ransomware Resilience and Ransomware Recovery Ransomware attacks aren’t just encrypting and deleting your data. They’re deleting your hypervisor which can even destroy immutable repositories if they sit on top of Hyper-V or VMware. And now, cyber-liability insurance companies can sequester your server infrastructure while they bring in a cyber-forensics company to...Read More
[ad_1] Upon opening the 25th ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC) and its Related Meetings in this capital on Tuesday, Malaysian Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail noted that cybercrimes range from financial scams to ransomware attacks. Nasution Ismail emphasized that these crimes have emerged as a serious and urgent challenge in...Read More
[ad_1] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has brought to light an age-old problem with medical IT systems: many are excessively vulnerable because they are based on legacy equipment from 20 or more years ago that were not built with cybersecurity in mind.In its report dated June 2025, the FDA said that for medical devices...Read More