Microsoft on Wednesday announced a coordinated operation with Europol and other international partners to disrupt Amadey and StealC — tools used as infostealers to conduct ransomware, financial fraud and other digital crimes. Amadey is a specialized tool used by cybercriminals to infect computers, while StealC is used to steal passwords and other sensitive data after...Read More
The Boone County Child Abuse and Sexual Exploitation (CASE) Task Force ran a sting operation over the weekend and arrested seven men on suspicion of child solicitation and related charges. Only one, Harsh Kumar, 39, is local. He lives in Whitestown. The others come from other counties and states, according to a CASE Task Force...Read More
PCSO Press Release On June 23, 2026, PCSO Cyber Crimes detectives arrested 29-year-old Wesly Hulin of Lakeland and charged him with 5 counts promoting sexual performance of a child after receipt of a NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Endangered Children) tip and the subsequent investigation. The tip indicated that several files containing child sexual abuse material...Read More
The attack was investigated by the UK’s National Crime Agency and City of London Police. Police investigators quickly identified Flowers as a suspect prior to his arrest at his home on Sept. 6, 2024. Forensic analysis on the laptops, tower computers, hard drives, and USB sticks seized at the time of Flower’s arrest uncovered evidence...Read More
Disruptions for college students dragged into the weekend after hackers briefly took down an online platform used by thousands of schools around the world, from Princeton University in the U.S. to the University of Manchester in the U.K. and the Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile. Instructure Inc., which runs the Canvas service used by students...Read More
Social media gets blamed for many of America’s ills, including the polarization of our politics and the erosion of truth itself. But proving that harms have occurred to all of society is hard. Far easier to show is the damage to a specific class of people: adolescent girls, whose rates of depression, anxiety, and self-injury...Read More
A 21-year-old using the alias “Snoopy” was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in hacking DraftKings accounts in the November 2022 cyberattack. In December 2025, the man, Nathan Austad of Minnesota, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, admitting that he and co-conspirators compromised 60,000 DraftKings user accounts. During the attack, the...Read More
Earlier this week, Qualys saw routine insider share sales by its chief legal officer and a director under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, alongside sector-wide strength in software infrastructure and cybersecurity names. The key development is that Qualys’ recent move appears driven more by broad investor enthusiasm for software infrastructure than by company-specific catalysts. We’ll...Read More
Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a series of bills this year that are meant to reform the Department of Child Safety in the wake of multiple high-profile deaths. One of the biggest changes is from Senate Bill 1174, which requires DCS to include a child’s entire history in a single report if they’ve been the subject...Read More
Brent Groff, 27, must register as a Megan’s Law offender and undergo mandatory counseling for the rest of his life as a result of the determination, prosecutors say. LANCASTER, Pa. — A Lancaster County man serving 10 to 25 years in prison for repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting a young girl over a period of...Read More
