[ad_1] Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper speaks at the podium alongside retired law enforcement officers at the Sheriff’s Office headquarters in Old Foothill Farms on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. Cooper announced a proposed 2028 ballot initiative to revise Proposition 57 to prohibit sexually violent predators from being eligible for early parole following recent controversy over...Read More

[ad_1] UK Cyber Official Paul Foster on Cross-Border Takedowns, New Disruption Playbook Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • March 25, 2026     Paul Foster, head, National Cyber Crime Unit, U.K. National Crime Agency Dismantling cybercrime groups requires more than technical capability. It demands trust, coordinated strategy and cross-border collaboration, said Paul Foster, head of the...Read More

[ad_1] Russian authorities have detained the suspected administrator of LeakBase, a notorious cybercrime forum known for trading stolen data, according to state media reports. The individual, described as the forum’s creator and a resident of Taganrog in southern Russia, was taken into custody days after an international law enforcement operation knocked the site offline and...Read More

[ad_1] A sign outside of an AMHC facility in Presque Isle in 2020. The Maine mental health agency AMHC was the subject of a ransomware attack this month allegedly perpetrated by a Russia-based cybercrime group.  Qilin, which analysts have cited as the world’s leading ransomware threat, added the Presque Isle-based healthcare organization to a list...Read More

[ad_1] Russian national convicted for running botnet used in attacks on U.S. firms Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2026 A Russian hacker got 2 years in prison, $100K fine, and $1.6M judgment for running a botnet used in ransomware attacks on U.S. firms. Russian national Ilya Angelov (40) was sentenced to 24 months in prison for...Read More

[ad_1] SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – A Sarasota County man has been sentenced to prison after entering a plea in a child sex abuse case. Ednaldo Souza De Almeida, 46, entered a pretrial plea March 24 to four counts of lewd or lascivious molestation involving a child younger than 12 and one count of lewd or...Read More

[ad_1] The Maine mental health agency AMHC was the subject of a ransomware attack this month allegedly perpetrated by a Russia-based cybercrime group. Qilin, which analysts have cited as the world’s leading ransomware threat, added the Presque Isle-based healthcare organization to a list of victims on its dark web data leak site Tuesday, according to screenshots...Read More

[ad_1] Geoff Hale got his start in defending the nation’s elections infrastructure from cyberattacks in 2016. “I guess I can thank Russia for that,” he said, pointing to his work at the National Protection and Programs Directorate, which was two years later to be transformed into the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Department of...Read More

[ad_1] At this time last year, the cybersecurity world appeared to be successfully balancing the use of artificial intelligence to prevent attacks and defending against adoption of the same tools by hostile nation-states and malicious actors. The story is different now. Strong winds are buffeting the tightrope and there is legitimate concern that protection of...Read More

[ad_1] That doesn’t come at the expense of complexity, adds DT’s chief security officer, Thomas Tschersich. As far as the engineer behind the honeypot is concerned, the difference between the classical and the AI-powered variety is similar to filming a movie scene using complex wooden sets constructed on a back lot or CGI: both are...Read More