Hackers associated with the Russian threat group Sandworm have been targeting system administrators and IT professionals through fake job offers since at least May. A report from the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) details a social engineering campaign attributed to UAC-0145, which is believed to be a sub-cluster of Sandworm (APT44). In the campaign,...Read More
(Photo from Shutterstock) The Mississippi Senate select committee will examine what other states, including Utah, Florida, and Georgia, have done to address cybersecurity threats. Lieutenant Governor Hosemann (R) announced the creation of the Senate Select Committee on Cybersecurity last week. The committee will now hold hearings and recommend legislation for the 2027 legislative session. Hosemann...Read More
Global internet, power plants and US computer systems will be at risk if America continues to attack Iran, an Iranian official said on Monday. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman Hossein Mohebbi was speaking with Iranian broadcaster Irib, amid stalled negotiations and threats from the US that more strikes could be imminent. “If a threat against...Read More
CHICO, Calif. — The Butte County Superior Court (BCSC) announced that a registered sex offender appeared in court on Monday on child molestation and gun charges stemming from a Chico Police Department arrest in early August. Christopher Carter, 58, was arrested by the CPD detectives following an investigation into allegations that Carter had sexually abused...Read More
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) – On Tuesday, Summit County Prosecutor Elliot Kolkovich announced a prison sentence for a child predator. Gregory Demoss, 45-year-old man from Akron, was sentenced to 14 to 17.5 years in prison for pandering child sexual abuse material, according to a press release from the Summit County Prosecutor office. In May, Demoss pled...Read More
U.S. and international agencies released a joint cybersecurity advisory Aug. 10 warning of actions by Gunra ransomware. Gunra is a ransomware-as-a-service program that has been used to target government, critical infrastructure — including healthcare — and other organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Gunra actors leverage a double-extortion model, both encrypting data and threatening to publish stolen data to a dedicated leak...Read More
When an AI assistant browses a website for you, who’s actually there? You, sitting at your keyboard? Or the software doing the clicking? That question sounds almost philosophical, but it just decided a major court fight between two of the biggest names in tech. And the answer could reshape how AI tools are built for...Read More
The advisory carries seals from five U.S. agencies and South Korea’s national police Gunra actors break in through two known vulnerabilities in internet-facing devices Victims have been identified in five world regions and more than 10 sectors Five U.S. agencies and a South Korean partner have published a joint advisory on Gunra, a ransomware operation...Read More
A Mexican national who had been deported from the US multiple times before illegally reentering the country has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting two minors, according to federal officials. Erik Santana-Garcia, 34, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced July 30 to 20 years in federal prison without parole,...Read More
