Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail and explain why that is so, including how: The Settlement embeds age assurance technology and...Read More
Phishing actors are abusing the legitimate Faronics Deploy endpoint-management platform to gain remote administrative control over victim computers and install the ScreenConnect remote support software. In activity observed between July 21 and August 20, Faronics-themed lures reached more than 457 endpoints via emails disguised as invoices, tax documents, or other business files. Faronics Deploy is a...Read More
“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. The NVIDIA founder and CEO joined CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz to announce CrowdStrike SafeMind, its agentic cybersecurity system developed by the CrowdStrike Cyber...Read More
Meta Platforms (META) has reached an approximately US$17 billion to US$18 billion settlement with a coalition of US states over alleged harm to children from Facebook and Instagram. Investors are now reassessing the stock with a clearer legal backdrop. Over the past year, Meta Platforms’ share price has pulled back, with the year to date...Read More
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Social media access for teens on Meta will soon look different. Following a landmark settlement, Meta has agreed to pay $18 billion over a 10-year span. Plus, they’re going to put a two-hour time limit on young users. Parents would be required to approve an increase in access going forward. This comes...Read More
GoPro has concluded its months-long search for a solution to its financial woes. Privately-held optical-photonics company Starman Optical, Inc. (Starman) has entered into a definitive merger agreement with GoPro, Inc., for $285 million. As part of the agreement, GoPro shareholders will receive an aggregate cash payment of $285 million, or $1.14 per share. As of...Read More
Kobalt.io has signed partnerships with Forward Security, Johanson Group and Insight Assurance covering application security, audit and certification, and defence supply chain assessments. The agreements were signed at Kobalt.io’s first Partner Summit in Vancouver and apply to customer work across North America and APAC, where most of its more than 1,600 customers are based. The...Read More
Cisa.gov Berlin’s state government confirmed on August 31, 2026, that the Rhysida ransomware group stole data from its administrative network during a five-day window in August — a breach that forensic investigators now trace directly to a seven-day gap between when the city first detected the intrusion and when it finally cut the compromised departments...Read More
When we were at Black Hat USA 2026 with Mastercard, Cybercrime Magazine met Levi Gundert, Chief Security & Intelligence Officer at Recorded Future, the world’s largest pure-play threat intelligence company. “We’re all grappling with cyberattacks,” says Gundert. The velocity is the biggest issue that defenders are now facing. Right now is the time that defenders really need to...Read More
A pharmaceutical distribution giant just became the newest name on a growing list of American healthcare companies hit by hackers hunting for patient records. The McKesson data breach, disclosed on August 28, 2026, has already triggered a ransom demand worth tens of millions of dollars and put sensitive medical information for what could be millions...Read More
