Child Sex Offender Surrogacy Lawmakers Want To Close Loophole … After Predator Gets Baby Published July 31, 2025 6:00 PM PDT Pennsylvania state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to band together and close a legal loophole that allows child predators to become parents through surrogacy. The issue has come under the spotlight...Read More

Safepay hackers threaten 3.5 TB Ingram Micro data breach release. getty There are two cybersecurity threats that we seem unable to escape from of late: ransomware and data breaches. A recent analysis of more than 1,297 breaches revealed that data breaches increasingly drive ransomware attacks. Although there is the odd anomaly, such as the cybercriminals...Read More

A new report from Microsoft’s threat intelligence division reveals attempts by the Russian hacker group Turla, also known as Secret Blizzard, to spy on foreign embassies in Moscow. This activity includes attacks on local internet service providers, enabling the attackers to access targeted data. According to information obtained by Microsoft, after gaining control over Russian...Read More

Working at one of Russia’s leading online-extortion businesses was remarkably similar to life in a regular company: a strict hierarchy, influential human resources department, organisational stuff-ups and a stream of repetitive bureaucratic emails. For a while the group, known as Conti, was one of the world’s most successful ransomware gangs. From early 2020 to mid-2022,...Read More

The creation of “telecommunication identifier user entity” (TIUEs), as proposed in the Draft Telecommunications (Telecom Cyber Security) Amendment Rules, 2025, will impose high costs on digital businesses and effectively bring them under a parallel telecom-like compliance regime, said the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) in a submission on the Draft Amendment Rules made...Read More

Ransomware actors are resorting to extreme measures to pressure victims into paying demands, including threats of physical harm to business executives. Over the past 12 months, executives were physically threatened in 40% of ransomware incidents, according to a new report by Semperis. This tactic increased to 46% of cases impacting US-based firms. On top of...Read More

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A child sex sting set up by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office led to the arrests of 40 people, including a trespassed UF student on a visa and a contractor for the U.S. Department of the Army. Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods held a news conference on Wednesday to discuss the...Read More

Children and teenagers are behind some of the most aggressive and profitable cyberattacks in the world, and many are getting away with it because they know they’re unlikely to face serious consequences. It comes as John Hultquist, Chief Analyst at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, spoke with TechDay exclusively to reveal who exactly...Read More

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the arrest of 48 individuals in an extensive six-day undercover child exploitation sting on Wednesday, which targeted adults allegedly attempting to solicit sex with minors. The arrests included six foreign nationals from Jamaica, El Salvador, Dubai, and India traveling to Florida to prey on children. The annual operation, dubbed...Read More

The day’s local, regional and national news, detailed events and late-breaking stories are presented by the ABC 6 News Team, along with the latest sports, weather updates including the extended forecast. (ABC 6 News) – All of Mower County’s departments are able to perform their core job tasks now, but the ransomware attack is a...Read More