Scams targeting seniors are on the rise. In 2024, older adults in Canada lost 178 million dollars to financial scams, a 300 percent increase from 2020, according to a House of Commons committee report. This is also an underrepresentation, since many people do not report when they’ve been scammed, out of embarrassment. Radio Waterloo interviewed...Read More
The U.S. Defense Department has ordered an intensive, five-week cyber and intelligence mobilization aimed at blocking foreign governments from hacking or manipulating the November midterm elections, a directive that pulls four military spy agencies into a joint operation with civilian election officials. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed the order on Sept. 28, tasking U.S. Cyber...Read More
A team of cybersecurity researchers has unveiled an artificial intelligence system that can take a stripped-down binary program, hunt for a memory corruption flaw inside it, and write a working exploit script that seizes control of the machine — all without ever seeing the source code, a vulnerability hint, or a human-written solution. The system,...Read More
A computer science professional, a banker, a doctor, a cybersecurity expert — you might expect such people to spot an online scam quickly. A new IIT Madras study suggests that assumption can be dangerously wrong. Researchers who interviewed 33 financial cybercrime victims across five Indian cities found that many were highly educated, digitally experienced professionals....Read More
ANI | Updated: Sep 30, 2026 21:47 IST New Delhi [India], September 30 (ANI): Pakistan‘s wicketkeeper/batter Mohammad Rizwan has been directed to appear before the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) on October 2 as the investigation involving the Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter continues. The agency has asked Rizwan to cooperate with the probe, particularly regarding the mobile...Read More
Did you hear about the massive data breach currently rocking the Trump administration? No, silly, not the FBI data breach. Sure, ShinyHunters, a legendary hacking group, snatched up the personal data of what appears to be every FBI employee, including information on sensitive job assignments, but that’s only a paltry 38,000 people or so. This...Read More
Director Aaron Sorkin, from left, Mikey Madison, and Jeremy Allen White pose for photographers upon arrival at the gala screening for the film “The Social Reckoning” in London, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP) The Social Reckoning, the follow-up to David Fincher’s The Social Network (2010), comes out in theaters this October....Read More
Dutch police have arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man in connection with an investigation into ShinyHunters, the hacking group the FBI says was behind a data breach that exposed confidential GTA Online revenue figures earlier this year. As spotted by Rockstar Intel, via Kotaku, the Dutch National Police confirmed the arrest in a statement on September...Read More
Zscaler’s ThreatLabz 2026 Ransomware Report shows ransomware activity increased by more than 275% year‑on‑year, driven by AI‑assisted tooling, resulting in the theft of 896 terabytes of data and $328 million in blockchain‑based extortion payments. According to Zscaler’s ThreatLabz 2026 Ransomware Report, ransomware activity is increasingly shifting from disruptive encryption towards large-scale data theft, with artificial intelligence helping...Read More
Mohammad Rizwan, Pakistan’s wicketkeeper-batter, has been instructed to appear before the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) on October 2 amid an ongoing probe. The agency has requested Rizwan’s cooperation, particularly concerning a mobile phone that was confiscated from him in London last month. Stay connected Make The News Mill your preferred source See more...Read More
