The award-winning Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel released its first Short last month and the video has more than 720,000 Views. In less than two minutes, our host Taylor Fox told the story: In the 1980s, a woman named Leslie Lynn Doucette and her network of teen hackers stole over $1.6 million without robbing a single bank. Online, she went...Read More

41 SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale) and Assemblyman Josh Hoover (R-Folsom) have introduced legislation to stop the early release of serial child molesters under California’s Elderly Parole Program. The move comes as Governor Gavin Newsom’s parole board has been on a 2026 spree of granting early release to serial child molesters under the state’s...Read More

05 Oct Hot 150 Cybersecurity Companies To Watch In 2021 Second annual list of pure-play vendors and service providers Press Release – Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 5, 2021 Thousands of startups have been formed over the past decade to focus on combating cybercrime, which is expected to cost the world $6 trillion annually...Read More

Unprivileged users could exploit AppArmor bugs to gain root access Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2026 Researchers found nine “CrackArmor” flaws in Linux AppArmor that could let unprivileged users bypass protections, gain root privileges, and weaken container isolation. Qualys researchers disclosed nine vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as CrackArmor, in the Linux kernel’s AppArmor module. The flaws have...Read More

Together, INTERPOL’s cyber specialists, our member countries and our partners form a global web to catch cybercriminals. We work to track them down, wherever the digital device they’re hiding behind may be. August 2025 – Operation Serengeti 2.0: Over 1,200 cyber threat actors arrested, more than 11,000 malicious infrastructures disrupted, almost USD 100 million recovered,...Read More

 pexels.com/Ron Lach Cybercrime has grown into a thriving, highly profitable industry, threatening governments, businesses and people worldwide. With two-thirds of the world’s population online – and much of the global economy reliant on information and communications technology – everyone is a viable target.   The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime opened for signature on 25...Read More

Wellington, New Zealand, March 17, 2026 — PowerDMARC, a global leader in email authentication and domain protection solutions, will exhibit at the National Cybersecurity Summit 2026 on March 17–18, 2026, at the Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre. PowerDMARC will be exhibiting at Stand 10 in partnership with Advantage NZ, an esteemed Managed Services Provider...Read More

Clearly, it’s important to cast a wide net when estimating the costs of cybercrime, notes a Barracuda blog post by Tony Burgess, a twenty-year veteran of the IT security industry. As reported in a 2025 Cybercrime Magazine article: “Cybercrime costs include damage and destruction of data, stolen money, lost productivity, theft of intellectual property, theft of personal and financial...Read More

The right-to-repair loophole aggressively slams shut across the Colorado Eastern Plains this morning. Independent operators are frantically hacking their own combines before the fall harvest kicks off. If a proprietary software lock bricks your heavy iron in the middle of a massive wheat run, your break-even point is officially dead. This massive corporate yield-killer forces...Read More

Attackers cover their tracks after credential theft After capturing them, the fake client displays an error message indicating installation has failed, the advisory said. It then directs the user to download the legitimate VPN client from the official vendor site. “In certain instances, opens the user’s browser to the legitimate VPN website,” Microsoft said. If...Read More