An Iranian-linked hacker group known as Handala has threatened to launch broader cyberattacks against US critical infrastructure after claiming responsibility for a cyberattack on industrial systems in the state of Maryland. In a statement carried by Iran’s Mizan News Agency, the group said that, following its “sophisticated cyberattack” on Maryland’s operational technology (OT) infrastructure, “America’s...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – July 23, 2026) – Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE) (OTCQB: QSEGF) (FSE: VN80) (“QSE” or the “Company”), a post-quantum cybersecurity company focused on quantum-resilient data protection, identity security, secure storage and cryptographic migration readiness, is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of agreement (the “MOA”) with a...Read More
Welcome to the daily Inside Scoop newsletter. The Tate brothers have honed their brand promoting misogyny. The porn empire founders are now fighting extradition from the U.S. to the U.K., where dozens of charges of sexual violence, including rape, await them. We look at how the current political environment has fueled their notoriety. Let’s get...Read More
Kurt Strassberger, left, a State Police senior investigator in the Financial Crimes Unit, and Milton Yu, deputy superintendent for insurance fraud at the state Department of Financial Services, discuss efforts to crack down on auto insurance fraud on Wednesday at the State Police Training Academy in Albany. Jim Franco/Times Union ALBANY — Nearly 270 law enforcement...Read More
The Ohio Hi-Point Joint Vocational School District Board of Education met in regular session Wednesday evening, approving several items focused on campus growth, student opportunities, and school safety as the district continues to expand to meet increasing enrollment. Construction continues on the district’s new Public Safety Academy building, with the project expected to be completed...Read More
Cisco Talos has identified a Rust-based remote access trojan it attributes to the Chaos ransomware group, named msaRAT after four of the binding names left in the binary. The tool starts its own instance of Chrome or Edge on the victim machine and controls it through Chrome DevTools Protocol, a debugging interface built into both...Read More
Media coverage emphasizes a rogue AI attack, while ChatGPT says the real concern is a containment failure that exposed growing risks requiring stronger safeguards. By Robert Chartuk·July 23, 2026 Two portrayals emerged from a report that an artificial intelligence bot went rogue and hacked into a tech company: one by the media and the other...Read More
By Staff Reporter | A teachers’ union-backed initiative to end Arizona’s universal school choice program relied on a variety of violent felons to collect signatures in violation of state law. In what some critics have called a twist of irony, the initiative allegedly failed to conduct background checks on those gathering signatures for a reform...Read More
Cisco Talos has discovered a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAT) we call “msaRAT” attributed to the Chaos ransomware group. The name is derived from the binding names found in the binary: “msaOpen,” “msaClose,” “msaError,” and “msaMessage”. msaRAT is implemented using the Tokio asynchronous runtime, with primary capabilities of browser-leveraged remote code execution and covert...Read More
Quick Read Coca-Cola (KO) disclosed a ransomware attack suspended Fairlife’s U.S. production with no restoration timeline, threatening grocery shelf availability nationwide. Past food and beverage ransomware attacks on Arizona Beverages and UNFI caused weeks of empty shelves, and Fairlife has few protein dairy substitutes. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named...Read More
