LOUISIANA – Louisiana has taken legal action against the online gaming platform Roblox, accusing it of creating an environment where sexual predators can easily target children. The lawsuit was filed in state court by the Louisiana Attorney General. It claims that Roblox has not implemented effective safety measures to protect its young users. This is...Read More
By Aislinn Keely ( August 15, 2025, 10:46 PM EDT) — Federal prosecutors say they’ve seized $2.8 million in crypto from accounts controlled by an alleged ransomware attacker…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act...Read More
A cyber criminal who hacked into the websites of organisations in North America, Yemen and Israel and stole the log in details of millions of people has been jailed. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky, 26, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was arrested by specialist National Crime Agency cybercrime officers in August 2022, who were acting on intelligence supplied by...Read More
Research: 43 per cent of Australian ransomware victims pay criminals to recover their data Ransomware attacks – and their impact – are on the rise in Australia, according to a new study from Barracuda. Organisations in Australia are more likely to pay a ransom following a ransomware attack than companies in any other country, new...Read More
Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 | 11:59 a.m. A multi-agency operation targeting alleged child sex predators has resulted in the arrests of eight men over the past two weeks, authorities announced this morning. The eight suspects, ranging in age from 23 to 49, face felony charges of luring a child with a computer for sex acts....Read More
Colt Technology faces multi-day outage after WarLock ransomware attack Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2025 WarLock ransomware hit Colt Telecom, causing outages in hosting, porting, Colt Online, and Voice API since August 12. UK-based Colt Technology Services suffered a cyberattack, reportedly caused by WarLock ransomware, resulting in multi-day outages for hosting, porting, Colt Online, and Voice...Read More
CloudSEK uncovered a Pakistan-based family cybercrime network that spread infostealers via pirated software, netting $4.67M and millions of victims. The operation’s secrets were revealed when the scammers themselves were compromised. Cybersecurity intelligence firm CloudSEK has uncovered a sophisticated, family-run multi-million-dollar cybercrime operation based out of Pakistan. CloudSEK’s TRIAD team’s investigation revealed a syndicate that’s been...Read More
“Roblox” faced a wave of new lawsuits this week that allege the popular gaming platform hasn’t done enough to safeguard kids from pedophiles and sexual content. One of the latest complaints, filed in a federal court in the Northern District of California, claims that a predator posed as a child on the platform and sexually...Read More
This newsletter is brought to you by Kroll. You can subscribe to an audio version of this newsletter as a podcast by searching for “Risky Business” in your podcatcher or subscribing via this RSS feed. A team of academics has developed a novel attack that can downgrade 5G traffic to weaker states without using a rogue...Read More
Rotherham hacker Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky jailed for 20 months after global cyberattacks, stealing millions of logins and targeting government websites. When police knocked on the door of a home in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in August 2022, they ended a hacking spree that had stretched across North America, the Middle East and Israel. The man behind it,...Read More
