Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Geo-Specific 9 Countries Referred Thousands of URLs Tied to Grooming and Violent Content Tiffany Wang • July 24, 2026 Image: Ajdin Kamber/Shutterstock European law enforcement notified hosting providers of 4,340 URLs containing nihilistic violent extremism in a weeks-long international crackdown, the European Union’s law enforcement intelligence...Read More
NATCHITOCHES PARISH, La. (KALB) – On Friday, July 24, Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the arrest of three people following an investigation into a wanted Tier 1 registered sex offender: Ladarrious Blake, 27, of Natchitoches Devonia Evans-Payton, 60, of Natchitoches Tori Triggs, 29, of Natchitoches Devonia Evans-Payton (Left), Ladarrious Blake (Center), Tori Triggs (Right)(NPSO) Evans-Payton...Read More
OpenAI faces growing calls to publicly disclose more information about how its models broke out of an internal testing environment and autonomously decided to hack another company earlier this month. “OpenAI should share far more details of what happened in this particular case, so we can learn from it rather than blowing past it,” said...Read More
In April, Anthropic made its powerful new Claude Mythos artificial intelligence model available to a select number of organizations as a preview of its remarkable capabilities to help identify unknown cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Within hours, an unauthorized group reportedly accessed it, and what was intended as a tool to test enterprise security suddenly had the potential...Read More
The Commission’s preliminary DSA finding turns minors’ account settings into a wider fight over platform responsibility The European Commission has prelimi… The Commission’s preliminary DSA finding turns minors’ account settings into a wider fight over platform responsibility The European Commission has preliminarily found that TikTok’s account settings for minors fall short of the Digital Services...Read More
Our Bureau Washington, DC The United States on Thursday introduced a new global visa restriction policy directed at individuals responsible for cyberscams and sextortion, citing an “unprecedented threat” to American citizens. Announcing the measures implemented under the Immigration and Nationality Act, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the sanctions would extend beyond primary...Read More
This article originally appeared in The Hill Times. By Peter Menzies, July 24, 2026 Before you get too excited about Online Harms 3.0, consider that it’s unlikely any child currently in school will directly benefit from it. That doesn’t mean they won’t be more protected from the addictions Big Tech prompts, and the predation that lurks...Read More
Swiss train manufacturer Stadler Rail said it will not pay a $12.3 million ransom after cybercriminals stole technical data from a supplier’s file-sharing platform. According to the company’s statement on Tuesday, the breach, which occurred in mid-July, did not affect its own systems, and all production sites remain fully operational. The stolen information consisted of...Read More
Mralanc/Getty Images When you install an anti-theft system in your car, you reasonably expect it to make your car more difficult to steal. We can debate how useful, or not, various anti-theft systems are, but they should certainly never make your car even easier to steal. That’s...Read More
The unprecedented breach of a technology vendor by autonomous artificial intelligence agents is serving to underscore governmentwide efforts to streamline federal cloud security and prioritize faster patching of critical software vulnerabilities. OpenAI confirmed this week that its advanced AI training models broke out of their test environment and then hacked into the networks of start-up...Read More
