AUGUSTA, Georgia — A federal court has sentenced three individuals involved in a sophisticated scheme that enabled overseas IT workers linked to North Korea to secure remote jobs with U.S. companies using stolen identities. The case underscores growing cybersecurity risks tied to remote hiring practices and highlights how sanctioned states exploit global digital labor markets....Read More

Russian intelligence-linked hackers are targeting commercial messaging platforms, with Signal a primary focus, the FBI and CISA warn. The campaign is aimed at individuals of intelligence interest, including government personnel, journalists, and others with access to sensitive communications. It is believed that the campaign has compromised thousands of commercial messaging applications accounts. People who use...Read More

Office workers are seen walking towards the building housing the offices of X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, after a raid by police on Feb. 3, 2026 in Paris, France. Remon Haazen | Getty Images French police raided the offices of Elon Musk’s social media network X on Tuesday and prosecutors ordered...Read More

The UAE Cybersecurity Council has urged people working from home to be the “first line of defence” against a growing hacking threat. The authority said a rise in remote working had fuelled a spike in attacks from cyber criminals targeting unsecured home routers, putting the data of employees, institutions and businesses at risk. The council...Read More

Human Rights Watch warned on Thursday that Kenya’s cybercrime law amendments risk criminalizing legitimate online speech. The amendments, assented to on October 15 and published by Parliament on November 4, increase penalties for certain offences, broaden the government’s investigative and enforcement powers, and expand the authority of the National Computer and Cybercrimes Coordination Committee to...Read More

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A local child-safety group is working to reduce a common risk on the road: incorrectly installed car seats. Safe Kids Johnson County held a free car seat check event Saturday, March 22, at McCarthy Chevrolet, showing parents how to properly install their own seats and helping make sure children are...Read More

A 35-year-old man operating from China ran the largest fraudulent dark web network ever dismantled and the most disturbing detail is not the scale of the infrastructure he built, but what he was selling — child sexual abuse material that did not exist, to thousands of buyers who paid for it anyway. On March 9,...Read More

A Europol-backed law enforcement operation has led to the dismantling of over 373,000 dark web sites advertising child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and cybercrime as a service (CaaS). The German-led Operation Alice ran from March 9-19 and initially targeted “Alice with Violence CP” – a fraudulent platform run by a Chinese national which swindled would-be...Read More

The Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI), in partnership with the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and with sponsorship from Microsoft, launched a pilot to test whether accessible, behavior-focused cybersecurity training could measurably improve cyber readiness among water and wastewater utilities. Aimed to help address the sector’s cybersecurity...Read More

Just as software engineers are using artificial intelligence to help write code and check for bugs, hackers are using these tools to reduce the time and effort required to orchestrate an attack, lowering the barriers for less experienced attackers to try something out. Some in Silicon Valley warn that AI is on the brink of...Read More