If you market music, you probably use one or more of Meta’s platforms to do it, and the target audience for that marketing will often include young people and teenagers. But now, there is a palpable momentum – in a societal and legal sense – behind actions designed to minimise what is being seen as the negative...Read More
Share Meta has been ordered to pay an additional $567 million fine by a New Mexico state court, marking the largest child safety penalty ever issued against the social media giant. The punishment stems from Meta’s failure to warn the public about the dangers its platforms pose to children. Presiding Judge Bryan Biedscheid explicitly declared...Read More
This weekly roundup highlights the growing cybersecurity risks affecting businesses, government agencies, and critical service providers. From the continued dominance of ransomware operations to government database breaches and third-party supply chain incidents, recent events demonstrate how attackers are increasingly targeting trusted systems and external service providers to maximize disruption and data exposure. The latest developments reinforce that...Read More
A serial sex attacker left free to kill due to a string of police and court blunders could face a whole life jail term after being found guilty of murdering two women and raping a third. Jobless Simon Levy’s crime spree spanned from 2018 to 2025 and included myriad sex attacks on women in public...Read More
The premier Cybersecurity event of the year, Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas, ended yesterday and the Cybercrime Magazine media team is on their way home. A quick recap of who we met in Vegas before putting out our post-Black Hat media over the next month or so: — It was one of the best convos at...Read More
NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued a nationwide advisory warning corporate entities, Chartered Accountants, company directors, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and other finance professionals about a rapidly spreading cyber fraud known as the “Boss Scam”, in which attackers compromise WhatsApp accounts to orchestrate high-value financial fraud. The alert follows a...Read More
Black Hat , Cybercrime , Events Ricky Handschumacher on Redirecting Talent Before Cybercrime Takes Hold Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • August 6, 2026 Ricky Handschumacher, reformed criminal hacker Young hackers can move from gaming and online status-seeking into cybercrime before they understand the legal and personal consequences. The security industry must offer credible alternatives...Read More
Moucka and other members of the group used stolen login credentials to compromise data belonging to at least 165 customers of a US-based software-as-a-service company. This unauthorized access was used to steal billions of sensitive customer records and download terabytes of information, “Connor Moucka hacked over 150 companies and organizations, obtained extremely sensitive information, and...Read More
LAS VEGAS — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency sees value in formally placing the world’s dominant software vulnerability tracking program into federal law but is cautioning Congress against imposing rules that could make it harder to adapt as artificial intelligence and international partners reshape the system. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Program, or CVE,...Read More
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. LAS VEGAS — The U.S. government is closely monitoring frontier AI labs’ safety decision-making and is ready to step in if it sees a company going too far, a senior administration official said on Thursday. “There’s no reason...Read More
