Over the last five years, efforts to make social networks Facebook and Instagram safer for young people have erupted across courts, classrooms and capitals. Now Meta Platforms, the parent company of the world’s most popular social networks, faces another big moment of reckoning. On Wednesday, Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion over 10...Read More
Cape Argus Reporter|Updated 1 week ago Nearly two-thirds of South African teenagers in top-tier schools are caught up in cyberbullying, a devastating culture of online harassment that directly undermines their mental health, classroom focus, and academic achievement. According to groundbreaking research published in the South African Journal of Information Management by Professor Daniel le Roux...Read More
A ransomware group known as MeduzaLocker has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Hungry Lion, a quick-service restaurant chain operating 111 locations across South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Mauritius. The breach was identified on Aug. 27, 2026, at 06:27 UTC through a dark web threat intelligence sweep, and the same...Read More
Beyond the Hype: AI, Ransomware and Business Models AI is not (yet) fundamentally reinventing cybercrime. For bold predictions on how it will change, look to history to understand what drives criminal behaviour online. We are frequently told by cyber security marketers that we are in the midst of an AI-powered revolution for cybercrime. The short...Read More
From 25 to 27 August 2026, the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organized the second specialized training course on the “Foundations of Digital Forensics and the Use of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) for Fighting Cybercrime” for 18 representatives of Tajikistan’s law enforcement and judicial authorities. The training brought together 13 officers from the Ministry of Internal...Read More
The Department of Justice and FBI seized domains powering QScan and QTRouter, hacking tools linked to a Chinese state-sponsored group. The action, announced today, followed court authorisation and targeted infrastructure the department says was used against US critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks. Court documents unsealed in the Southern District of California identify the group...Read More
This week in cybersecurity highlighted how AI is simultaneously expanding defensive capabilities and creating new attack vectors. OpenAI detailed how AI agents breached Hugging Face in a multi-stage compromise, while researchers identified hidden code instructions as an emerging threat to AI models. At the enterprise level, 86% of SMEs surveyed by Kaspersky experienced at least...Read More
Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, agreed to pay up to $17 billion to settle claims with nearly every state in the country. Texas struck its own deal worth more than $1 billion, bringing Meta’s potential payout to roughly $18 billion. But the bigger impact may not be the money, but what happens to...Read More
Arizona will receive about $223 million as part of a massive settlement of a case that alleged Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, targeted young people with addictive features and knowingly exposed them to serious mental health risks. The state’s share is part of a $17 billion agreement with Meta Platforms, the largest settlement...Read More
Nasdaq Verafin has partnered with Q6 Cyber to combine dark web monitoring with consortium transaction data on a single platform, aiming to help banks and credit unions spot fraud threats before they materialise. The partnership addresses a longstanding weakness for financial institutions, which have typically only been able to detect fraud after it has already...Read More
