CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD) remained a prominent name among institutional NASDAQ portfolios on Friday, May 22, as the cybersecurity sector continues to attract elevated spending driven by AI-enhanced threat activity. The company’s Falcon platform is widely regarded as the leading cloud-native cybersecurity solution for enterprise endpoint protection, identity security, and cloud workload defence. CrowdStrike...Read More

By Alimat Aliyeva Children as young as five may be vulnerable to contact from strangers and pressure to spend money on Roblox, according to campaign groups that have filed a complaint with U.S. regulators, AzerNEWS reports, citing foreign media. Several advocacy organizations have called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the massively...Read More

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) – Law enforcement in Florida apprehended 19 suspects as part of an undercover child predator operation. The suspects are collectively charged with more than 90 crimes. Many of the men believed they were communicating with children or their guardians. Law enforcement in Florida apprehended 19 suspects as part of an...Read More

The dark web isn’t something you can just stumble upon, and that’s a good thing. Although it’s often used for transactions and conversations that need to remain anonymous, sites on the dark web can host illegal activity, phishing links, financial scams, and malware. There’s also little to no recourse to be had if you encounter...Read More

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — Chris Hansen joined the Martin County Sheriff’s Office when deputies arrested six men in a child predator sting. The sting, which involved detectives posing as minors online, successfully intercepted suspects who believed they were traveling to meet a child. Sheriff Budensiek emphasized the success of the mission, stating that authorities...Read More

First VPN, a virtual private network service marketed to cybercriminals, promising anonymity for its users, was taken offline on May 19 and 20 as part of Operation Saffron. During the operation, French and Dutch authorities, with support from Europol and Eurojust, dismantled 33 servers linked to the service and interviewed the operator in Ukraine. The...Read More

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit unsealed a civil lawsuit on May 19 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York targeting Fox Tempest, a criminal operation that sold fraudulently signed malware to ransomware gangs as a subscription service — and whose customers went on to attack hospitals, schools, and critical infrastructure across ten...Read More

Microsoft on Tuesday said it disrupted Fox Tempest, a cybercrime operation that helped ransomware gangs hide malware behind legitimate software. Fox Tempest operated a malware signing-as-a-service operation, which abused code-signing tools that verify the authenticity of commercial software.  Ransomware gangs and other criminal actors abused tools, including Microsoft’s Artifact Signing, to deliver malware as part...Read More

On Tuesday, education tech giant Instructure disclosed a data breach where hackers stole students’ private information, including their names, personal email addresses, and messages sent between teachers and students.  Now, it appears hackers were able to compromise Instructure again — this time defacing several schools’ login pages to the company’s platform Canvas, which allows schools...Read More

New York —  A cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials — at a time when many are taking or preparing for final exams. Canvas, a popular, cloud-based digital hub for classrooms, has more than 30 million active users...Read More