On 28 April, Europol published the new edition of the Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2026, providing an analysis of the latest trends and developments in cybercrime affecting the EU. The report, titled “How encryption, proxies, and AI are expanding cybercrime,” highlights how cyber threats are growing faster and becoming more advanced and sophisticated. It...Read More
Security Affairs newsletter Round 578 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2026 A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press....Read More
CEO, CIO – Technyfire Dapo Aruwajoye has warned that Nigeria remains dangerously exposed to rising cyber threats due to weak cybersecurity investment, limited skilled manpower, and slow institutional response systems. Speaking during an interview with ARISE NEWS on Sunday, Aruwajoye said ordinary Nigerians face growing risks as personal and institutional data continues to circulate on...Read More
You may have noticed blue pinwheels around your town: in front of government buildings, schools and in windows. This small blue pinwheel is the symbol for Child Abuse Prevention Month each April. It’s also a symbol of possibility, a reminder that when we work together to support families early, we can create communities where children...Read More
San Diego County sheriff’s deputies were searching for a man suspected of sexually battering a 10-year-old girl in Poway over the weekend. The assault was reported at 7 p.m. Saturday near the 13400 block of Midland Road in the City of Poway, according to the SDSO. The girl’s friend was with her at the time...Read More
Halcyon is monitoring increased threats to the global electronics manufacturing supply chain following Nitrogen’s mid-May 2026 claimed compromise of Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry), the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, and a top supplier to several Fortune-100 technology companies. Nitrogen claimed several manufacturers this year. Most recently Foxconn on its NitroBlog leak site. Foxconn was...Read More
Ravie LakshmananMay 01, 2026Malware / Social Engineering Cybersecurity researchers are warning of two cybercrime groups that are carrying out “rapid, high-impact attacks” operating almost within the confines of SaaS environments, while leaving minimal traces of their actions. The clusters, Cordial Spider (aka BlackFile, CL-CRI-1116, O-UNC-045, and UNC6671) and Snarky Spider (aka O-UNC-025 and UNC6661), have...Read More
On May 3, cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for breaching Instructure — the parent company of Canvas — reportedly compromising the data of hundreds of millions of users, including 306,000 at Penn. Included in the information obtained by ShinyHunters — notorious in the hacking community for large-scale data breaches targeting major corporations — are emails,...Read More
The Reform UK MP defended his party’s leader on LBC after Farage claimed Moscow-linked hackers targeted his phone over controversial £5m gift Want LBC stories before everyone else? Set us as your Preferred Source on Google Crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne gave a total of £12 million to Reform UK last year. Picture: Alamy Robert Jenrick...Read More
In one month, Claude Mythos found over 10,000 critical vulnerabilities across the world’s most important software. Mozilla found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox – ten times more than with the previous model. Cloudflare – 2,000 flaws, 400 of them critical, with a lower false positive rate than human testers. Palo Alto released five times its usual...Read More
