It was early June when representatives of the Ford government’s home care agency penned an increasingly frustrated and urgent legal letter to one of its vendors. Weeks after a ransomware attack, officials were still trying to work out how many Ontarians had been impacted. “Just want to reiterate the urgency around the numbers,” a representative...Read More
The overall maturity, level of organization, and specialization within the ransomware economy means we are dealing with an adversary whose tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) are approaching the sophistication of some nation-state-sponsored attackers. In many cases, there has been documented overlap between nation-state attack elements and those of cybercriminal ransomware gangs. Today’s ransomware attacks are more...Read More
Police forces have made 94 arrests in a large-scale law enforcement operation against phishing and ransomware. The effort, codenamed Operation Synergia III, ran from July, 18 2025 to January 31, 2026. It was coordinated by Interpol and involved law enforcement units from 72 countries as well as private sector partners, including Group-IB, Trend Micro and...Read More
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Ex-FBI Leader Cynthia Kaiser on Sanctions, Ecosystem Disruption, Stronger Policies Chris Riotta (@chrisriotta) • March 11, 2026 Cynthia Kaiser, former FBI deputy cyber director, and senior vice president, Ransomware Research Center, Halcyon U.S. policy now targets ransomware gangs and online fraud rings as...Read More
Newsfrom Japan Society Technology Mar 12, 2026 13:42 (JST) Tokyo, March 12 (Jiji Press)–Japanese police confirmed 226 cases of damage from ransomware attacks in 2025, the second-highest annual total, data from the National Police Agency showed Thursday. The number of ransomware attacks, in which perpetrators use a computer virus to encrypt data and demand payment...Read More
The White House has released a new national cybersecurity strategy titled “President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America” (Strategy). The Strategy was released on the same day as an executive order targeting foreign-based cybercrime and predatory schemes. The Strategy establishes six “policy pillars” that position cybersecurity as core to the Administration’s broader economic, military, and national security...Read More
New Delhi: Cybersecurity certification company EC-Council has sued WPP in Singapore, alleging that the agency group failed to deliver an incremental revenue commitment of about US$6.3 million under a 2024 strategic marketing and advertising mandate. WPP’s AKQA, however, said the dispute centres on unpaid invoices and maintained that it had met all contractual obligations. EC-Council...Read More
Japanese police have confirmed 226 cases of damage from ransomware attacks in 2025, the second-highest annual total, data from the National Police Agency showed Thursday. The number of ransomware attacks, in which perpetrators use a computer virus to encrypt data and demand payment to restore access, rose by four from the previous year. Although some...Read More
Lyndale Avenue sign in East San Jose on March 14, 2026. Photo by Susan Bassi By Susan Bassi, Fred Johnson and Faith Strader In East San Jose, where trucks sit parked on front lawns, abandoned cars clog the streets, neighborhood schools are shuttered and graffiti marks the working-class neighborhood, a modest house on Lyndale Avenue...Read More
Lyndale Avenue sign in East San Jose on March 14, 2026. Photo by Susan Bassi By Susan Bassi, Fred Johnson and Faith Strader In East San Jose, where trucks sit parked on front lawns, abandoned cars clog the streets, neighborhood schools are shuttered and graffiti marks the working-class neighborhood, a modest house on Lyndale Avenue...Read More
