An Alberta attorney has been charged with several child sexual exploitation offences after allegedly sexting with pre-teens and teenagers on social media. Jordan Randall Bonner, 46, is a criminal defence lawyer in Calgary who appears to be self-employed. Bonner has been a practicing member of the Law Society of Alberta since 2009 and is also...Read More
Write to us at startingpoint@globe.com. To subscribe, sign up here. “The flood is coming.” For three years, I’ve been traveling the country talking to child advocates, psychologists, and survivors for my forthcoming book, “An Unthinkable Crime: The Hidden History of Sexual Abuse and a New Age of Reckoning,” which builds on a 2022 Globe Magazine...Read More
The same generative AI tools that help people write emails and generate images are now being weaponized to steal money. Visa is sounding the alarm that ransomware incidents and AI-powered fraud are accelerating at a pace that should make anyone with a payment card pay attention. The core problem is straightforward: cybercriminals are using generative...Read More
The same generative AI tools that help people write emails and generate images are now being weaponized to steal money. Visa is sounding the alarm that ransomware incidents and AI-powered fraud are accelerating at a pace that should make anyone with a payment card pay attention. The core problem is straightforward: cybercriminals are using generative...Read More
District officials say thousands of pages were printed across the district with the word ‘ransomware’ across the top on Tuesday morning. DELANO, Minn. — A suspected ransomware attack on the Delano Public School District led to canceled classes across the district on Wednesday. Early Tuesday morning, Superintendent Matt Schoen says printers districtwide started printing thousands...Read More
The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) announced this week the successful completion of its largest cybercrime operation to date. Operation Ramz spanned across 13 countries in the Middle East and North Africa and resulted in the mass arrest of 201 individuals. Operation Ramz, which ran from October 2025 to February 2026, focused on neutralizing phishing and...Read More
On March 30, BeyondTrust proved that a crafted GitHub branch name could steal Codex’s OAuth token in cleartext. OpenAI classified it Critical P1. Two days later, Anthropic’s Claude Code source code spilled onto the public npm registry, and within hours, Adversa found Claude Code silently ignored its own deny rules once a command exceeded 50...Read More
A highly sophisticated supply chain attack has compromised the Laravel-Lang ecosystem, injecting credential-stealing remote code execution backdoors into 233 package versions across 700 GitHub repositories. Discovered in May 2026 by Socket and Aikido, threat actors manipulated GitHub tags to distribute malware through Composer’s autoloader, granting complete remote access to developer environments. The attackers bypassed direct...Read More
This week: macOS malware, a GitHub breach, Interpol arrests, and a critical ChromaDB flaw. We’ve compiled the week’s key cybersecurity news. A new crypto-stealing tool bypassed Apple’s protections. Hackers gained access to thousands of GitHub repositories. Interpol made large-scale arrests in the Middle East and North Africa. A critical flaw was found in ChromaDB, a...Read More
An Australian federal court upheld on Thursday a fine against Elon Musk’s X for failing to comply with child internet safety regulations, capping a three year legal fight between the tech giant and Canberra. Under Australian law, internet regulator eSafety can fine firms that do not respond to demands for detailed information on how they...Read More
