FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – A Central Florida man caught with over 16,000 files of child porn has finally been convicted and sentenced, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. In a release, deputies said the man — identified as Scott Beverst, 64 — was taken into custody earlier this year after detectives intercepted an online...Read More
Alleged internal chats from Silent Ransom Group suggest the criminals collected $206.95 million from 27 firms in roughly six months without encrypting victims’ files. The reported earnings point to the power of data extortion, where attackers steal sensitive records and demand payment to keep them private. However, the payment figures remain unverified, and the group...Read More
IDC Frontier, operator of the Japanese cloud service “IDCF Cloud,” released its third update on October 8 regarding the ransomware attack against the service, revealing that customer data stored in the affected zones is unlikely to be retrievable or recoverable. This large-scale security incident affects 495 contracted companies and municipalities, forcing customers to rebuild their...Read More
Chinese hackers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in devices connected to the internet. This was reported by the Dutch Ministry of Defense. Dutch Defense Minister Dylan Yesilgöz made this statement on social media platform X. “Artificial intelligence allows hackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities more quickly. Chinese hackers are...Read More
A draft protocol to the UN Convention on Cybercrime will be negotiated in Vienna 18–29 January 2027. The United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime that has elaborate the the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes, is preparing to negotiate...Read More
DENVER — Cyber attacks on Instructure’s Canvas learning management system and Oracle PeopleSoft applications earlier this year offered colleges and universities a lesson: to treat their technology supply chains as part of their own security, privacy and legal risk. At the EDUCAUSE annual conference last week, Senior Associate Emma Bahner of XL Law and Consulting,...Read More
The Brief Nine law enforcement agencies joined forces to arrest 20 men in a child predator sting, dubbed “Operation Cooked.” The four-day operation involved undercover detectives posing as minors online to set up meetings with men allegedly looking to meet children for sex. Those arrested were between the ages of 22 and 64, including some...Read More
Analysis The system managing enterprise firewalls was compromised through unauthenticated root access months before patches were available. Interlock ransomware weaponized the Java deserialization flaw 36 days before Cisco knew about it. Two critical, unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center carry CVSS scores of 10.0. Both allow attackers to gain...Read More
Zohar Pinhasi, 50, also known as “Zack Silver” and “Zack Green,” a U.S. and Israeli national, was arraigned today in the Eastern District of New York on wire fraud charges relating to Pinhasi’s false representations that he could decrypt ransomware without paying cybercriminals. Pinhasi claimed to prospective clients that his company, MonsterCloud, offered a principled...Read More
A group of cybersecurity experts has managed to hack a Galaxy S26, Samsung’s flagship smartphone, simply by sending an email. The feat was presented during the Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 cybersecurity event, where researchers demonstrated how to take remote control of the phone without the user having to interact or open any suspicious links. The attack...Read More
