[ad_1] A 20-year-old Florida man received a 10-year federal prison sentence Wednesday for his role in the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime organization, marking the first conviction of a member from the group responsible for breaching more than 130 major companies. Noah Michael Urban, 20, of Palm Coast, Fla., pleaded guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud and...Read More

[ad_1] A Las Vegas pastor is facing a felony charge after being caught in a multi-agency sting operation targeting child sex predators. Neal Creecy, 46, was one of eight men caught in the operation.  Creecy had been serving as senior pastor of Redemption Church, according to an archived page on the church’s website. Since his...Read More

[ad_1] The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) have repatriated 51 more foreign nationals convicted and sentenced for cyber-terrorism and internet fraud. The repatriated foreign nationals include 50 Chinese and one Tunisian. This brings the total repatriated convicted foreign nationals to 102 in the ongoing exercise that commenced on...Read More

[ad_1] A 12-year-old Indigenous girl who walked out of her South Omaha home on Tuesday has not returned, and her family fears she was lured away by someone she met online. Watch Hannah’s story: South Omaha missing 12-year-old Indigenous girl, family fears she was lured by an online predator Ava Little Eagle disappeared without a...Read More

[ad_1] U.S. law enforcement officials have seized more than $2.8 million in cryptocurrency that they say belonged to a man who collected the digital assets through attacks using the Zeppelin ransomware. The Justice Department (DOJ) also seized $70,000 in cash and a luxury vehicle belonging to Aleksandrovich Antropenko, who was indicted on a range of...Read More

[ad_1] The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) has warned the public against vishing or voice phishing, especially as the ‘ber’ months or the months leading up to the holidays near. According to a “24 Oras” report by Bernadette Reyes on Thursday, phishing involves stealing personal information to take money from the victims. It is...Read More

[ad_1] As loyal listeners of this podcast know, I’m a big believer in paying close attention to the little things, the blocking and tackling, the basics, the fundamentals. All those elementary elements that comprise the building blocks of stronger cybersecurity plans and successful defensive strategies.  Spoiler alert – that comes through again … and again...Read More

[ad_1] In recent weeks, the cybersecurity community has witnessed the rapid emergence of Warlock, a novel ransomware strain that weaponizes unpatched Microsoft SharePoint servers to infiltrate enterprise networks. Initial analysis reveals that threat actors exploit publicly exposed SharePoint instances via specially crafted HTTP POST requests, deploying web shells that grant remote code execution within the...Read More

[ad_1] Acronis has published its Cyberthreats Report for the first half of 2025, highlighting ongoing trends and new developments in global cyberthreat activity. The report, compiled by the Acronis Threat Research Unit and based on data collected from more than one million endpoints worldwide, indicates that ransomware remains the predominant threat to both large and...Read More

[ad_1] CHANDIGARH: In a move to make emergency services more accessible and efficient, the Punjab Police has integrated the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) Helpline 1033 and the Cyber Crime Helpline 1930 with the Dial 112— Punjab’s Unified Emergency Response System. This integration now allows citizens to simply dial 112 to report highway accidents,...Read More