[ad_1] With a week left before boarding your flight to Las Vegas, it’s time to prep for the Black Hat USA 2025 experience Aug. 2-7. The conference’s Welcome Guide is a good place to start. But to really get dialed in, you should listen to this Cybercrime Magazine Podcast episode with Steve Wylie, VP and Head of the Black Hat Cybersecurity Conferences,...Read More

[ad_1] Securing artificial intelligence data centers, building-up American semiconductor manufacturing, and training the workforce for an AI-centric world are among the Trump administration’s dominant priorities laid out this week in its new AI Action Plan.   Released on July 23, the action plan serves as the Trump administration’s blueprint for accelerating the development, deployment and use...Read More

[ad_1] Ransomware attacks worldwide declined by 43% in the second quarter, yet threats continue to adapt and evolve according to a new report from NCC Group. The report found a notable decrease in global ransomware activity, with incidents dropping by six percent month-on-month in June, amounting to 371 cases. Over the quarter, attacks fell by...Read More

[ad_1] Over 400 victims hit in hacking campaign exploiting unpatched Microsoft SharePoint servers. A state-aligned cyber-espionage campaign exploiting Microsoft server software vulnerabilities has escalated to ransomware deployment, according to a Microsoft blog post published late Wednesday. The group, dubbed ‘Storm-2603’ by Microsoft, is now using the SharePoint vulnerability to spread ransomware that can lock down...Read More

[ad_1] A 21-year-old student who designed and distributed online kits linked to £100m worth of fraud has been jailed for seven years. Ollie Holman created phishing kits that mimicked government, bank and charity websites so that criminals could harvest victims’ personal information to defraud them. In one case a kit was used to mimic a...Read More

[ad_1] A man from Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List was finally caught and arrested after a warrant was issued for his arrest for sexual assault of multiple children as young as 8 years old. Read More: Juvenile Crime Rises in Lubbock This Summer The Arrest of Fugitive Jacob Kessler Jacob Aaron Kessler, 41, was arrested...Read More

[ad_1] BlackSuit’s dark web data leak site and private negotiation panels have been taken offline in what appears to be a large-scale law enforcement operation. On July 24, the ransomware group’s leading site, usually accessible via The Onion Router (TOR), displayed a banner stating, “This site has been seized by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations as...Read More

[ad_1] Fake investment scams, ransomware, digital sextortion and business email compromise are surging across the continent. Experts say African countries must do more to protect their citizens. Rising digital dependency in the public and private sectors, along with “a severe lack of cybersecurity capacity,” have combined to make Africans extremely vulnerable, according to Anna Collard,...Read More

[ad_1] CloudSEK’s TRIAD team uncovered an active development site deploying Clickfix-themed malware linked to the Epsilon Red ransomware. This variant deviates from traditional clipboard-based command injection tactics by directing victims to a secondary page on the same domain, where malicious shell commands are executed silently through ActiveXObject(“WScript.Shell”) to facilitate payload delivery. The script leverages Windows...Read More

[ad_1] In April 2025, Hackread.com exclusively reported that the Medusa ransomware group had claimed responsibility for breaching the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and was demanding a $4 million ransom. NASCAR has now confirmed that its systems were indeed compromised, validating Hackread.com’s earlier reporting. Medusa Ransomware’s dark web leak site (Credit: Hackread.com)...Read More