Key takeaways: A reformed ShinyHunters hacker is arrested by Dutch authorities in connection with a massive telecom breach in February. The FBI now describes 24-year-old Pepijn van der Stap as “one of the alleged leaders” of ShinyHunters. ShinyHunters denies any association, telling Cybernews it is “laughing” at the arrest. Insiders say the hacker may have...Read More
Education sector policyholders carry material cyber exposure when cover is silent on exfiltration, dwell time, and dark web monitoring costs A West Australian Anglican school is managing an active cyber security situation – with student and community data potentially at risk – against a backdrop of rising ransomware pressure across the education sector nationally. St...Read More
A recent Eurobarometer survey has highlighted the growing cybersecurity risks faced by employees across the European Union, with nearly three in four workers reporting that they have encountered cyber-attacks or digital threats in the workplace. The survey, conducted through the Eurobarometer public-opinion research system widely used by European Union institutions, also identified phishing as one...Read More
New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon has said his party will introduce a bill in parliament that seeks to ban children under 16 from using social media, proposing fines of up to 10% of a platform’s global revenue for non-compliance. The bill would require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to verify users’ ages,...Read More
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents attempted to hack government websites in the United States and Canada, according to a report released Wednesday by San Francisco-based nonprofit research lab Transluce. Researchers identified “two rudimentary and failed hacking attempts,” targeting the US Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection and Library and Archives Canada, a Canadian federal agency,...Read More
BYD Australia will make upgrades to the software in its Shark 6 plug-in hybrid ute following its own internal investigation into the hacking of one of its dual-cabs for ABC current affairs program Four Corners. The report made headlines after a BYD Shark 6 ute was accessed by Canberra-based Fortify Labs, which accessed the vehicle’s...Read More
An Italian woman travelled to Gurugram to report a sophisticated romance scam where she was defrauded of 1,000 euros, prompting the Gurugram Cyber Police to launch an investigation into the international cyber fraud. Image used only for representational purposes. Photograph: Pixabay.com Key Points An Italian woman, Paola Bertolini, was defrauded of 1,000 euros in a...Read More
The next generation of the Vega platform unites a fast, specialized AI model, agentic memory, and seamless access to all data in one undeniable harness for cyber defense. Vega, the pioneer of Agentic Cyber Defense, today introduced Vega II, the next generation of its platform and its most important release since emerging from stealth. Vega...Read More
We’ve heard from adults about the new Facebook and Instagram rules, but what are kids saying? Teenage social media users talk about whether the proposed restrictions will have any effect on them. Transcript ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, settled a landmark child safety lawsuit this week. The agreement...Read More
When a bird lunges at a butterfly in mid-flight, it may see something that is not there—the insect’s wings flashing beneath may not be moving where they appear to be moving. By the time the predator realizes the illusion, the butterfly already may have escaped. Researchers studying this natural defence have found that contrasting wing...Read More
