Listen to article • 0:00 min Cybercrime losses amounted to almost $21 billion last year, reflecting a 26% increase from 2024, the FBI recently reported. The FBI described a “worsening digital crime environment that is driving financial losses, with momentum moving in the wrong direction and compounding at an alarming rate.” AI is making things worse...Read More
Seiko USA website defaced; attackers claim Shopify backend breach Threat actors allege theft of full customer database, demand ransom within 72 hours No dark web leak yet; unclear if Seiko negotiated or if attackers were bluffing, company previously hit by BlackCat ransomware in 2023 Premium watch manufacturer Seiko has had its US website defaced over...Read More
Roblox Under Fire: Inside the Growing Wave of Child Safety Lawsuits Skip to main content Roblox, a popular gaming website with tens of millions of daily users, touts itself as a safe, fun online experience for kids. But a growing number of lawsuits claim that the company prioritized profits over safety, allowing the website to...Read More
The School Education Department (SED) Punjab has issued a province-wide directive mandating strict monitoring of students during dismissal hours, alongside a parallel crackdown on inaccurate student data, in a move aimed at strengthening both campus safety and administrative transparency. Under the new safety protocol, all schools across Punjab are required to ensure that no child...Read More
Agentic AI , Application Security , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Lightweight LLM-Driven Process Alerted Elastic’s Security Team, Says James Spiteri Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 21, 2026 James Spiteri, director of product management, Elastic Security The security community rapidly responded to the recent supply-chain attack against the popular JavaScript library Axios,...Read More
In the article Avoiding Punitive Damages After a Data Breach published by Texas Bar Journal, Spencer Fane attorney Shawn Tuma’s piece on cybersecurity was included as an additional resource. Shawn also had a separate article published by Texas Bar Journal relevant to data privacy. In his articles, Shawn discusses the promotion of stronger cybersecurity practices...Read More
A former FBI cyber chief is calling for the U.S. government to consider applying terrorism designations to ransomware actors who target hospitals and other critical, life-safety infrastructure, arguing a Bush-era terror financing authority could be applied beyond its traditional uses. In testimony set to be delivered Tuesday before the House Homeland Security Committee, Cynthia Kaiser...Read More
Topline Roblox, the online video game hugely popular with kids and teenagers, reached a $12 million settlement with Alabama on Tuesday over child safety concerns, the second settlement Roblox has reached with a state in recent weeks as it still faces at least a half dozen lawsuits from other states. Roblox still faces pending lawsuits...Read More
from the another-moral-panic-bubble-popped dept A couple weeks back, Jonathan Haidt published another entry in his ongoing campaign to convince the world that social media is inherently ruining kids’ lives. This one was a victory lap titled “Seven Lines of Evidence Against Social Media,” treating recent developments — including the social media addiction verdicts against Meta...Read More
The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same. Angelo Martino, 41, was a former ransomware negotiator at what is only referred to in court documents as Company-1 – Chicago-based incident response company DigitalMint. The...Read More
