Ransomware detections by African country/HILLARY BETT Ransomware remains one of Africa’s fastest-growing cyber threats, with South Africa accounting for the overwhelming majority of reported detections. According to the INTERPOL African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, South Africa recorded 92 per cent of all ransomware detections across the continent in 2025. Cabo Verde ranked a distant second...Read More
EDWARDVILLE — A Carrollton man was charged with indecent solicitation of a child after a sting by a predator hunting group. The 39-year-old suspect was charged Aug. 3 with traveling to meet a minor and unlawful possession of methamphetamine, both Class 3 felonies; and indecent solicitation of a child, grooming and solicitation to meet a...Read More
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., backed up by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks during a rally organized by Accountable Tech and Design It For Us to hold tech and social media companies accountable for taking steps to protect kids and teens online in Washington, Jan. 31, 2024. Jemal Countess | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images...Read More
Agentic AI has permanently changed cybersecurity by making it quicker and easier to discover vulnerabilities in software and fix them—or develop so-called exploits to weaponize them. But longtime web security researcher James Kettle wanted to look beyond the bug-hunting apocalypse to explore a question that has taken on even more urgency as major AI organizations...Read More
Bitdefender’s 2026 Cybersecurity Assessment Report opens on an uncomfortable split in how organizations handle AI security. The executives who own the risk register believe they can see how staff use artificial intelligence (AI); the analysts running the tools mostly cannot. Bitdefender, the endpoint security vendor, had market research firm Censuswide poll 1,201 IT and security...Read More
The municipality of Goesdorf announced on social media that it is now forbidden to ride “electric scooters, quads and other motorised vehicles (MVE) in schoolyards, playgrounds or similar public places”. The decision, however, did not come out of the blue, as Mayor Jean-Paul Mathay confirmed to RTL. In recent weeks, young people had repeatedly been...Read More
The reported death of a 26-year-old Japanese fan of K-pop boy group ENHYPEN has sparked renewed debate over online harassment and the darker side of fandom culture. The fan, known online as “Mina,” was a supporter of member Nishimura Riki, also known as NI-KI. She was a frequent attendee of fan signing events and had...Read More
Cybercrime has evolved into a borderless criminal ecosystem, with attackers collaborating across networks and moving faster than defenders can respond, thanks in part to AI. That imbalance is fueling a new cybercrime bounty program designed to crowdsource the human intelligence law enforcement needs to make arrests, rather than just tracking malware and infrastructure. Fortinet Inc.’s...Read More
NEW YORK–Ransomware gangs are increasingly sending operatives to victims’ offices posing as IT technicians after remote social-engineering attempts fail, a tactic that has helped one prolific group extract large ransom payments from U.S. law firms, according to reporting by BankInfoSecurity and a new Coveware analysis. BankInfoSecurity reported that the group known as Silent Ransom—also tracked...Read More
In another incident, an OpenAI model that had mistakenly been given internet access hacked a real website during a “capture the flag” exercise, according to third-party AI evaluator Irregular. AISI, the UK-based AI security firm, said it caught the suspicious activity before any damage was done, noting that it had deliberately given the models internet...Read More
