The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed on 08/26/2026 that intruders reached a standalone system holding information about targets of ATF investigations. Senior Justice Department officials designated the event a “major incident.” What to Know? ATF confirmed a standalone system was breached and said it cut connections to that environment on discovery. Justice...Read More

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia, notorious for being a major center for international online scams, claimed Friday it no longer hosts any of the compounds where the lucrative cybercrime was carried out, although some remain skeptical. The government’s Ad-Hoc Commission for Combating Online Scams, CCOS, claimed success for its crackdown at a Thursday meeting...Read More

Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in Copilot that allowed attackers to obtain sensitive information, including data from a user’s email inbox, with a single click. Remarkably, researchers obtained some of the necessary technical information directly from Copilot itself. Researchers at security firm Varonis discovered that Microsoft 365 Copilot could execute commands embedded in a specially...Read More

The Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said on Aug. 26 that they seized domains used by two China-linked hacking platforms that targeted multiple federal agencies, the U.S. Senate, and critical infrastructure networks. DOJ said in an Aug. 26 press release that the court-authorized seizures rendered the hacking platforms, known as QScan...Read More

CTC has received a $14.9 million contract for Marine Corps OT cybersecurity services The work will protect facility-related control systems at Marine Corps installations CTC and RMC Global will provide cyber assessments, architecture and compliance support Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a $14.9 million contract from Marine Corps Installations Command Government Facilities to provide operational...Read More

Brazil’s National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) ordered Discord to suspend livestreams earlier this month after a 13-year-old girl was goaded into killing herself during a livestream. A government statement said the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the capital, Brasilia, was brought after failed negotiations with Discord, whose proposals were “deemed insufficient to eliminate the identified risks.”...Read More

Something awful happened to the mental health of America’s youth around 2010. Rates of anxiety and depression spiked, as did incidents of self-harm, particularly among girls and young women. Experts debate why, but this deterioration strongly correlates with the rise of social media and smartphones. Now California lawmakers are on the verge of doing something...Read More

The advisory arrived from CISA on August 12, 2026, and it read like most of the ones before it: patch known exploited vulnerabilities, keep offline immutable backups, and segment the network so a single infected laptop can’t become a company-wide outage. That last instruction is the one most organizations still skip. The NIST Zero Trust...Read More

WINONA, Minn. (WXOW) — Winona County paid more than $128,000 to resolve a ransomware attack detected in January, and officials are now investigating a second, unrelated attack from April. The county detected ransomware on its computer network on Jan. 22. Officials took immediate action to investigate and engaged third-party forensic experts and federal law enforcement,...Read More

Australian Police arrested for alleged cybercrimes involvement. Photo: Unsplash Two men from Western Australia have been charged following a joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Western Australia Police Force (WAPF), conducted in parallel with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), into a sophisticated cybercrime syndicate that allegedly developed malicious open-source software...Read More