[ad_1] The US Department of Justice is trying to recoup around $1 million that three IT specialists secretly working for the North Korean government allegedly stole from a New York company. Bong Chee Shen was first in the door, as the unnamed company hired him in December 2022. He then recommended two other devs to...Read More
[ad_1] On August 8, 2025, Roblox introduced Sentinel, an open-sourced artificial intelligence system designed to detect potential child exploitation patterns within online chats, addressing escalating criticism and legal challenges regarding platform safety. Roblox, reporting over 111 million monthly active users, indicated that Sentinel has already assisted in identifying hundreds of potential child exploitation cases, which...Read More
[ad_1] SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3) – As the new school year gets underway and your child begins using the internet for schoolwork or to play games with friends, the Better Business Bureau has online safety tips for families. Adults aren’t the only ones who can be targeted by a scam. While BBB does not...Read More
[ad_1] (TNS) — St. Paul officials say the cyber attack that has wrought havoc on the city’s online services for weeks was a ransomware attack, a sophisticated form of online assault in which hackers demand payment in order to let users back into their systems. The city paid no money and instead shut down its...Read More
[ad_1] Patna: The importance of collaboration between various units to combat economic and cybercrimes was highlighted at a meeting convened by the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the state police on Monday. Additional director general (ADG), EOU, Nayyar Hasnain Khan, said effective coordination was vital to address the growing challenges in this field. Held at...Read More
[ad_1] The network that hosts online services for the office of Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is offline after a recent “cyber incident,” according to a notice Sunday posted to his official X account on Monday. Affected systems include the AG office’s website, email and phone lines. “We are taking steps to determine the cause...Read More
[ad_1] SonicWall insists a spree of ransomware attacks hitting its Gen 7 firewalls is not linked to a zero-day vulnerability, but rather a critical defect the company previously disclosed and patched last summer in its network security operating system. The vendor disputed initial assessments from outside researchers suggesting the speed and scale of the attacks...Read More
[ad_1] The U.S. government and seven international partners have seized the computer servers of the BlackSuit ransomware group and more than $1 million in cryptocurrency that it laundered, the Justice Department said on Monday. The FBI, the Secret Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the IRS’s Criminal Division worked with authorities...Read More
[ad_1] Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix. The bug, tracked as CVE-2025-8088, is a path-traversal flaw that affects the Windows version of the decompression tool. It received an 8.4 CVSS rating and, according to WinRAR, has been patched in the newest...Read More
