Senators Josh Hawley and Dick Durbin have raised concerns about explicit content and alleged child abuse linked to the platform. Roblox reported 65,381 suspected child sexual exploitation instances to NCMEC in 2025. The senators said that figure was more than double Roblox’s 2024 total. Several US states and Los Angeles County have sued Roblox over...Read More
Michael Dwain Mathews of Mineola was arrested last week for online solicitation of a minor after being caught in a sting by the group Predator Poachers. According to Wood County court documents, the group posed online as a minor. The suspect allegedly sent explicit messages and photographs before providing instructions to meet at a specific...Read More
Ahmedabad Cyber Crime has exposed a sophisticated Rs 1.5 crore WhatsApp fraud, leading to arrests and revealing an international cybercrime network spanning China, Pakistan, India, and Hong Kong, highlighting the growing threat of ‘Cybercrime as a Service’. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff Key Points Ahmedabad Cyber Crime uncovered a Rs 1.5 crore WhatsApp fraud, exposing an international...Read More
A series of prominent organisations including UK fossil fuel giant Shell, Dutch consumer and health tech multinational Philips, and the US’ General Electric (GE), are probing security breaches after being ‘named and shamed’ by the Cl0p/Clop cyber extortion gang. Cl0p, which has a long history of targeting blue chip firms by compromising commonly used...Read More
Beazley Security’s Q2 2026 Quarterly Threat Report finds agentic AI reshaping vulnerability research far faster than it is changing how attackers break in. Disclosed vulnerabilities increased 36% in Q2, while confirmed exploitations in the wild only grew 10% Compromised credentials remained the leading initial access vector, accounting for 67% of ransomware intrusions investigated by Beazley...Read More
President Trump is now pushing private U.S. companies to hack cyber-criminals. In a memo last week, he rolled out a program authorizing some firms to target foreign cyber-criminals through hacking operations. In the past, that work has been done by federal agencies. It calls for the manipulation, disruption, denial, degradation, or destruction of technology used...Read More
Angola passes new cybersecurity law Angola’s National Assembly has passed a new Cybersecurity Law aimed at enhancing the security and resilience of the country’s digital space, reported Angop. The law seeks to facilitate digital transformation across the public administration, the economy, and broader society while establishing measures to protect essential networks, critical infrastructure, and information...Read More
New York — OpenAI is rolling out a new “ChatGPT for Teens” experience that it says will provide additional safety protections for teen users. The move comes as OpenAI faces a string of lawsuits alleging that inappropriate conversations with ChatGPT contributed to the harm or deaths of young people. The experience will bring together new tools...Read More
OAKLAND, Calif. — Opening arguments are set to kick off Tuesday in a pivotal trial for Meta Platforms in a California federal court. Attorneys general from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey are seeking extensive financial damages plus changes to how the company operates Facebook and Instagram. Twenty-nine states sued the tech giant in 2023...Read More
Open this photo in gallery: Canada’s Bill C-34 shares many of the same features that led the French court to conclude the French law was overly broad and unconstitutional, says Tamir Israel, a director at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.Rick Rycroft/The Associated Press The federal government is likely to face a constitutional challenge to its...Read More
