The Brief A new Georgia state committee warns that youth are entirely too vulnerable to online predators on popular platforms. A survivor testified Tuesday about how easily predators interact with minors on Roblox and Discord despite active parental controls. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is actively investigating Roblox to determine if families were misled about...Read More
“When we asked second graders in Wisconsin this same question, we were surprised to often receive similar answers: Kids there also wanted to be YouTube influencers when they grow up.” (Photo via Unsplash) A second grader in Norway drew a YouTube logo when my colleagues and I asked what they wanted to be when they...Read More
KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 — The Dewan Rakyat has passed the Cybercrime Bill, marking a significant step in Malaysia’s efforts to strengthen its legal and enforcement framework against increasingly complex online threats. The Bill was passed with a majority vote following debate by 48 government and opposition Members of Parliament today. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk...Read More
A lot has been written in the last decade about China’s economic espionage through its theft of intellectual property. Former FBI Director Christopher Wray once referred to these thefts as “one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history.” But the arrest last week of an Iranian hacker in Montenegro is shining a light...Read More
The education curriculum in New York State, for K-12 students, also includes cybersecurity education. “Through our partners in the legislature and our state education department, we have a K-12 computer science for all curriculum, which includes cyber bullying, social media awareness, banking online and cybersecurity best practices,” he shared. “I have two kids in public...Read More
Research by: Alexey Bukhteyev Key Takeaways AI can turn high-level malicious ideas into concrete techniques, and can independently design and implement novel attack paths that have not yet appeared in real-world campaigns. In this research, DeepSeek connected unrealistic browser-malware concepts with a real browser capability, turning an AI-generated malware hallucination into a plausible browser-native ransomware technique....Read More
The ruling allows New Jersey and a bipartisan coalition of states to pursue claims that Facebook and Instagram harmed children and teens while misleading the public about the risks. A federal judge has rejected an effort by Meta Platforms, Inc. to dismiss a lawsuit brought by New Jersey and a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys...Read More
Online fraud and scams rose in 2025, while online abuse and identity crime decreased and cybercrime remained significantly under-reported, a new report has found. The Australian Institute of Criminology Australian Cybercrime Statistical report, released this week, took responses from 10,593 Australians, almost half of whom had been a victim of some form of cybercrime in...Read More
WhatsApp recently discovered and disrupted a sophisticated hacking campaign that used a one-click exploit developed by Israel-based spyware maker NSO Group to target its users, the messaging platform’s parent company Meta has revealed. The company said the attackers sent specially crafted phishing links through WhatsApp chats, luring victims to click on them before redirecting them...Read More
An investigation into a June 11 cyberattack claimed by an Iranian-linked hacker group found that hackers accessed one California Water Service customer’s online account using stolen credentials, but did not breach the utility’s internal systems or billing infrastructure, the company announced this week. This article is only available to subscribers Offer valid for non-subscribers only...Read More
