State cybersecurity support underway, leaders expect more to be needed As the City of St. Paul scrambles to recover from a massive cyberattack, the state agency in charge of supporting local governments’ cybersecurity says funds are still available to help avoid what’s unfolding in the capital city. RELATED: St. Paul says emergency services ‘fully operational’...Read More
Study shows many companies paid multiple ransoms in the past 12 months. Victims also report that hackers have threatened to physically harm executives and file regulatory complaints against their companies. HOBOKEN, N.J., July 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Semperis, a provider of AI-powered identity security and cyber resilience, today published results of a global ransomware study...Read More
A fervent Trump supporter who said that he was casting his 2024 vote to fight child trafficking is now being charged with 10 counts of possessing child pornography. Scott Soucek of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was arrested on July 24 and accused of accessing hundreds of child pornography images through a file-sharing system. Soucek isn’t just...Read More
The landscape of ransomware threats continues to evolve as attackers adopt increasingly sophisticated techniques to bypass security controls traditionally relied on by organizations. In a revealing recent incident, affiliates of the Qilin ransomware group orchestrated a highly advanced attack using a previously unpublicized vulnerable driver, TPwSav.sys, enabling them to bypass endpoint detection and response (EDR)...Read More
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, has opened the bureau’s first ever office in New Zealand, in what he said was an attempt to help counter China’s activities in the Indo-Pacific, crack down on issues including cybercrime, and strengthen protection of the Five Eyes nations. Patel, who opened the office at the US embassy...Read More
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Wednesday the arrest of 48 individuals and the filing of 153 charges during a six-day undercover operation targeting online child predators in Central Florida. The operation, led by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and supported by the Office of Statewide Prosecution, involved nine law enforcement agencies at the local,...Read More
According to a recent report by NCC Group on cyber incidents in the second quarter of this year, Safepay was the fourth biggest ransomware player during the three-month period, behind Qilin, Akira and Play. But looking at May alone, it made 70 attack claims, which made it the most active threat group for the month....Read More
The agencies warn that Scattered Spider is repurposing legitimate, publicly-available remote access tunneling tools, now including Teleport.sh and AnyDesk, to easily bypass security safeguards. Increasingly, it is searching for an organization’s Snowflake access to “[exfiltrate] large volumes of data in a short time, often running thousands of queries immediately,” according to CISA. The group has...Read More
Bermuda-based Mosaic Insurance has introduced a combined cyber and financial institutions crime insurance product. The new modular product suite offers standalone or blended coverage across cyber, technology errors and omissions (E&O), and crime. The solution provides up to $10 million in capacity for cyber and tech, and up to $5 million for crime exposures, underwritten...Read More
