This Cyberbullying Awareness video is meant to support parents and guardians in keeping their children safe online. This short video breaks down how to spot early warning signs and practical steps parents can take to protect and empower their children. It’s designed to equip parents with the tools to help their students navigate the digital...Read More

This article is sponsored by The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Like most middle school students, seventh-grader Aisha Chavda is concerned about cyberbullying. But unlike most, she decided to do something about it. “I don’t like when something is wrong in a community and there isn’t really a feasible solution,” she says. Chavda targeted a...Read More

LYON, France – Artificial intelligence is enabling 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa making attacks faster, more scalable, and increasingly difficult for victims and platforms to detect, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026. With more than 1.1 billion mobile subscribers recorded in 2025, Africa’s digital transformation is expanding rapidly. However, cybercrime...Read More

Representation of Bitcoin is seen with binary code displayed on a laptop screen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on August 17, 2021. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images “Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I did everything right,” Jonathan Goodman wrote on X. “I never...Read More

Advanced AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk posed by the technology, according to the UK’s AI Security Institute. AISI described the actions carried out by the agents, the term for AI systems that can perform tasks without human help, as a...Read More

Ruby O’Rourke has launched SAFE for child care centres and other child-facing services across Australia. The platform was developed over 12 years. SAFE is designed to help organisations identify children who may be at risk by collecting routine behavioural observations and analysing them as patterns over time. It uses machine learning and natural language processing...Read More

‘Storage Wars’ star claims co-star Darrell Sheets was cyber bullied before death “Storage Wars” star Rene Nezhoda has claimed that his co-star, Darrell Sheets, was being cyberbullied prior to his death. Sheets died on Wednesday at his home in Arizona of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 67....Read More

Das Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) lädt in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) und dem DSA Observatory sowie mit Unterstützung des Network of Centres (NoC) zu einer neuen Reihe von Learning Calls ein. Diese befassen sich mit aktuellen Themen im Zusammenhang mit dem DSA. Die Reihe findet...Read More

Cybercriminals follow a series of steps before demanding a ransom from their victims. According to the INTERPOL African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, attackers begin by researching potential targets and looking for weaknesses they can exploit. They often gain access through phishing emails or stolen login credentials before deploying ransomware into a victim’s system. Once inside,...Read More

Nairobi — More than half of all cybercrimes reported across Africa are now AI-enabled, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) has revealed, warning that digital attacks have rapidly evolved into an industrialized, borderless ecosystem that is becoming increasingly difficult to detect and combat. According to the newly released INTERPOL African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, 55...Read More