[ad_1] Alan Bryson-Sword repeatedly preyed on his first victim and subjected a second youth to attacks on two occasions. Bryson-Sword (49) formerly of Laird’s Hill, Eyemouth, had denied a series of charges during an earlier trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. A judge told him before sentencing: “The jury convicted you of three charges...Read More

[ad_1] FRANKFURT (dpa): International law enforcement agencies have shut down dozens of servers belonging to cybercriminals and arrested several suspects in an operation coordinated from Germany. The Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT) at the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor’s Office and the federal criminal police announced on Thursday that 16 searches were carried out in...Read More

[ad_1] Hackers have broken into at least one organization using Windows vulnerabilities published online by a disgruntled security researcher over the last two weeks, according to a cybersecurity firm. On Friday, cybersecurity company Huntress said in a series of posts on X that its researchers have seen hackers taking advantage of three Windows security flaws,...Read More

[ad_1] IBM wants to use AI agents to help organizations assess their ability to protect themselves from the cybersecurity risks that increasingly advanced AI frontier models pose when they’re used by threat actors. The IT giant’s consulting unit this week unveiled IBM Autonomous Security, a collection of specialized and coordinated agents that Big Blue executives...Read More

[ad_1] Optimizing Value and Utility Hinges on AI Scaffolding, Says Aisle’s Ondrej Vlcek Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 17, 2026     Ondrej Vlcek, CEO and founder, Aisle Cybersecurity defenders are racing to understand the implications of Anthropic’s new Mythos Preview large language model being able to discover zero-day flaws and complex exploit chains...Read More

[ad_1] Posted By Steve Alder on Jan 16, 2026 The threat from ransomware is greater than ever, according to a new report from GuidePoint Security. The cybersecurity firm recorded a 58% year-over-year increase in victims, making 2025 the most active year ever reported by GuidePoint Security. In 2025, GuidePoint Security tracked 2,287 unique victims in...Read More

[ad_1] Governor Maura Healey says social media is hurting kids and has proposed new guidelines for minors. Her legislation would limit which features children have access to on the sites, among other restrictions. State officials point to years of research showing the rise of mental health issues and poor performance in school. Just last week,...Read More

[ad_1] Kerem Albayrak from north London threatened to wipe 319 million accounts unless Apple gave him iTunes gift cards worth $100,000 (£76,000), BBC reported in a Dec. 2019 story. An investigation found that Albayrak had not compromised Apple’s systems. He was given a two year suspended jail sentence and ordered to do 300 hours of unpaid work....Read More

[ad_1] A Chinese man featured in a viral YouTube video confronting scam operators has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his role in a sprawling, yearslong fraud scheme that targeted thousands of elderly victims across the United States, federal prosecutors said.  He is the second defendant to be charged out of five in an indictment that...Read More

[ad_1] In brief Blockchain data shows the U.S. government transferred more than $600,000 worth of Bitcoin connected to the 2016 Bitfinex hack. The funds were transferred from a government account to Coinbase Prime, potentially ahead of a sale of the funds. The BTC is connected to the more than $9 billion, or 94,000 BTC which...Read More