[ad_1] A crackdown by Cambodian authorities on cybercrime operations has resulted in the arrests of more than 1,000 suspects in the past week. The South-East Asian country’s Prime Minister Hun Manet issued the order authorising state action for “maintaining and protecting security, public order, and social safety”, and threatened job losses if law enforcement failed...Read More

[ad_1] With IT outages and disruptions escalating, IT teams are shifting their focus beyond simply backing up data to maintaining operations during an incident. One of the key drivers behind this shift is the growing threat of ransomware, which continues to evolve in both frequency and complexity. Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platforms have made it possible for...Read More

[ad_1] PHNOM PENH: The number of suspects arrested in a Cambodian crackdown on internet scam centres has risen to 2,000, a government minister told AFP on Friday (Jul 18). The United Nations has described Southeast Asia as the “ground zero” of cybercrime centres, where workers typically use romance or business cons to defraud web users...Read More

[ad_1] It’s been one year since a ransomware attack breached the city of Columbus’ cyber defenses leaking hundreds of thousands of people’s personal information to the dark web, but there’s little sign of internal accountability. A listener asked WOSU’s Curious Cbus several questions about the cyber attack. Authorities from the city all the way up...Read More

[ad_1] Dr Bianca Lins Cyber criminals are taking advantage of geopolitical turmoil to launch more sophisticated attacks, testing the resolve of organisations and the strength of their defence systems. This is one of several themes that was discussed at the ITWeb Security Summit 2025, hosted in Sandton, Johannesburg, recently. On the sidelines of the summit,...Read More

[ad_1] Panaji: The tourism department has directed all hotels, guesthouses, and homestay operators to protect vulnerable children and provide a safe working environment for women within the hospitality sector. The directive comes in view of rising cases of child abuse in hotel rooms.The department has reminded hotels to bar entry of children into any room...Read More

[ad_1] A report earlier this year highlighted the fact that machine identities now vastly outnumber humans. This leads to a wider attack surface leaving many organizations vulnerable to cyberattack and loss of data. We spoke to Refael Angel, the co-founder and CTO of unified secrets and machine identity platform Akeyless Security, to find out more...Read More

[ad_1] Ransomware attacks targeting the healthcare industry have grown at a far slower rate than most other sectors in the first half of 2025, according to a new analysis by Comparitech. This comes as other sectors like retail are increasingly being viewed as an easier/more lucrative target, resulting in some threat actors shifting focus, according...Read More

[ad_1] A cryptomining botnet that has been active since 2019 has added a likely AI-generated ransomware to its operations. New analysis by FortiCNAPP team, part of FortiGuard Labs, has identified the first incident of an overlap between H2miner and Lcryx ransomware. The team uncovered this link during an investigation into a cluster of virtual private...Read More

[ad_1] Operation Eastwood dismantles DDoS infrastructure Europol has announced the successful disruption of pro-Russian cyber gang NoName057(16), in a multinational crackdown dubbed Operation Eastwood. The joint law enforcement operation involved coordinated actions across 12 countries including France, Spain, Sweden, Poland and Germany, with support from Eurojust and technical assistance from cybersecurity non-profits ShadowServer and Abuse.ch....Read More