“I think we should be concerned for sure,” said Boaz Gelbord, chief security officer at Akamai, which began as a global content delivery network over a quarter-century ago, and is now a major provider of network security. Gelbord said “some of the short-term fears that we see in the media are maybe a little bit...Read More
Summary On September 1, 2026, the ransomware group Krybit publicly claimed responsibility for a cyberattack againstUnion for International Cancer Control (UICC) (uicc.org), a leading non-profit organization based in Switzerland.The group issued a threat to release sensitive data if their demands are not met. Incident Report Field Details Target Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Domain...Read More
Sept 2 : Thoma Bravo-owned Proofpoint is in discussions to acquire cybersecurity firm Varonis Systems, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. Shares of Varonis, which has a market value of about $5 billion, closed up over 10 per cent. Private equity firm Thoma Bravo declined a request for comment, while Proofpoint...Read More
Meta has reached a landmark settlement in the United States of America, agreeing to pay nearly $18 billion in penalties and make major changes to its platforms. The penalties are for violating child privacy and endangering children with addictive social media platforms. As part of the settlement, Meta has agreed to limit how long teenagers...Read More
THERE HAS BEEN no reduction in underage children’s access to social media platforms, despite legal obligations which came into effect last July designed to prevent this, according to a new report. The report, entitled ‘The Year Little Changed’, was published by CyberSafe Kids this morning. It surveyed over 7,000 children in the academic year 2025-26. ...Read More
Surat: The Surat cybercrime police have arrested a 20-year-old man from Silvassa in connection with an online fraud in which a victim was allegedly duped of Rs 26.12 lakh through a fake social media task and investment scheme. The victim was initially contacted over ShareChat by the cyber fraud gang, with further communication taking place...Read More
SOUTHERN TIER (WBNG) — While many people associate cybercrime with personal data breaches, experts warn that the most significant current threat targets physical networks. Rather than seeking personal computers, modern cyberattacks often focus on essential systems like regional power grids, hospitals, airports and municipal water supplies. For example, worldmetrics.org states that healthcare was the most...Read More
McKinsey & Company has reportedly seen its internal chatbot – released three years ago – hacked, in a move which could potentially have exposed millions of the firm’s private conversations. The prestige around strategy firms – particularly the three largest, known as the MBB – suggests that the high-level work that the firms undertake for...Read More
The findings mark the first publicly documented case of an active member of the committee being targeted with Pegasus, the notorious spyware operated by Israeli cyber-intelligence leader NSO Group that has been used to target political figures worldwide, including the EU’s top leaders. Kouloglou told POLITICO that both hacks occurred during periods of “enormous preparation”...Read More
This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: technology acting on its own, without human guidance, to attack computer systems. But this isn’t a scene from a movie — it happened this summer, when the tech company Hugging Face detected an attack on its systems. The attacker stole data...Read More
