Erik Lee Madison, an online extremist from Baltimore County, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison this month after using the multiplayer game Roblox to coerce at least 10 young girls into performing violent and sexual acts against themselves. “Mr. Madison is a child predator who committed heinous acts. As a result, he is...Read More

Hundreds of domains and servers were taken over as part of an international operation over the last two weeks to cripple the “assembly lines” cybercriminals rely on to deploy ransomware, commit financial fraud and attack critical infrastructure, Europol and Microsoft announced Wednesday. Some 326 servers and 142 domains were dismantled by law enforcement, with investigators...Read More

The hacking collective ShinyHunters says it disrupted a major education platform not once but twice over the past few weeks. And the data breach could not have come at a worse time for students and teachers. These events unfurled during school finals at many of the affected institutions. On April 30, Instructure, the edtech company...Read More

Earlier this month, the official Facebook page for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party claimed that one of its donation websites had been taken offline by a distributed denial of service attack, blaming the incident on its political opponents. “So you may have heard One Nation’s Fire the Liar donation site crashed today,” a spokesperson for...Read More

Kichang Yang, senior vice president and head of HMG Security Center, explains the Trilateral Executive Dialogue cybersecurity working group at Hyundai Motor Group headquarters in Seoul. Photo courtesy of Hyundai Motor Group June 24 (Asia Today) — Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation have launched a cybersecurity working group under a trilateral forum...Read More

Silvia Danailov, UNICEF Representative in Vietnam As I regularly meet children, parents and educators across Vietnam, I have seen both the opportunities and risks that digital technologies bring to children’s lives. The online world is not only helping a generation learn, connect and create, but also exposing them to challenges that no single institution can...Read More

Europol Disrupts StealC and Amadey Malware Infrastructure in Operation Endgame Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2026 Operation Endgame disrupted malware services like StealC and Amadey that enable ransomware, fraud, and attacks on critical infrastructure. Between June 15 and 19, 2026, Europol coordinated a two-week law enforcement operation involving agencies from Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, the...Read More

“This arrest should send a clear message that we will pursue anyone who seeks to exploit children in our community” Longmont Police officers arrested 29-year-old William McRoberts for possession of child sexually exploitative materials and for communicating with an individual he believed to be 13 years old. McRoberts was the subject of a sting operation...Read More

Tech Radar reports that the phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation known as EvilTokens has dramatically scaled its operations, increasing phishing attacks by 1,380% in early 2026 compared to the previous year, largely due to the integration of artificial intelligence.The Huntress report highlights how EvilTokens operates like a modern tech startup, offering sophisticated phishing capabilities through subscription tiers...Read More

A malicious Microsoft Edge extension dubbed ‘Edgecution’ has been used in a ransomware attack to escape the browser sandbox and deploy a Python-based backdoor. Access to the local system is obtained by leveraging the Chrome Native Messaging protocol that allows browser extensions to interact with native desktop applications, such as a password manager communicating with...Read More