One Telecom Provider Hosted Most of the Middle East ’s Active C2 Infrastructure Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2026 Hunt.io mapped 1,350+ C2 servers across the Middle East, revealing how a small group of providers quietly supports major malware activity. For years, threat intelligence focused mostly on malware families, phishing domains, and individual indicators. But a...Read More

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — As the U.S. war with Iran continues and tensions escalate between the two nations, a cybersecurity expert cautioned the more than 150 aerospace and defense businesses in the Pikes Peak region to be vigilant against Iranian threats. “There are a number of different groups associated with the Iran Ministry of...Read More

As a proud not-for-profit provider of outside school hours care (OSHC), the Y NSW has welcomed a key recommendation from a NSW Upper House Committee inquiry report on the Early Childhood Education and Care Sector, saying it reinforces the need to prioritise child safety in OSHC. The Inquiry’s report, released this week, made significant findings...Read More

Adam Leddra, from Fatfield in Washington, had his sentence increased to four years after the Solicitor General Ellie Reeves KC MP referred his case to the Court of Appeal under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme. The court heard that Leddra met his victim on social media in June 2012 when she was 15 years old...Read More

The French and Dutch law enforcement seized a large-scale virtual private network (VPN) service catering to cybercriminals, offering services to mask their illicit activities of scanning, botnets, denial of service attacks, scams, hacking and ransomware attacks. Under the banner name “Operation Saffron,” the authorities shuttered 33 critical servers of the First VPN service provider during...Read More

A co-ordinated international operation, led by France and the Netherlands, has seen authorities seize and dismantle a VPN used by cyber criminals. “firstVPNservice” – software not featured in our guide to the best VPNs – was “deeply embedded in the cybercrime ecosystem,” and has been promoted on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums. The investigation, supported by Europol...Read More

Security THE Zone 2 Police Command and China’s Shandong Provincial Public Security Department have strengthened cooperation on cybercrime prevention, intelligence sharing and transnational security operations. The renewed partnership was reinforced during a courtesy visit by a Chinese delegation to the Zone 2 Police Command headquarters in Onikan, Lagos, on Thursday. The delegation was led by...Read More

Students attempting to access grades, study materials and quizzes were met instead with a message from a hacker on Thursday, as a widespread breach hit universities and high schools across the country, including the University of California and California State University systems. The attack targeted Canvas, a cloud-based digital hub for classrooms. UC and Cal...Read More

Ryan Mitchell Kramer caused Disney roughly $2.3 million in damages, the company told the court A Santa Clarita man who hacked a Disney employee’s personal computer and used information obtained to illegally download company data, was sentenced to 15 months incarceration and 24 months supervised release, the FBI announced this week. In 2024, Ryan Mitchell...Read More

Last July, Edmonton police got a tip about ongoing cyber crimes, bilking people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Their contact was a network of ethical hackers, also known as scam baiters. Police say they spend countless hours trying to infiltrate scam centres, usually by initially pretending to be a victim themselves. Their goal...Read More