An Australian team of cyber tech experts gave authorities a tip-off that helped the FBI and Australian Federal Police locate an alleged global hacker group in Perth. Cyber experts allege TeamPCP had been operating since last year and had established a “scary” reputation when its alleged mastermind was arrested in Perth this year. Experts allege...Read More
WASHINGTON – More than a year has passed since permanent authority for cybersecurity information-sharing protections expired, and there’s little sign that a standoff in the Senate over the law will end this Congress. A long-term extension of the law, titled the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, has bipartisan backing. If Democrats win control of...Read More
Japan’s cloud ransomware crisis just got worse. IDC Frontier, the SoftBank-owned infrastructure provider behind IDCF Cloud, told customers on October 8, 2026 that data stored across four zones of its East Japan Region 1 data center cluster may be difficult or impossible to retrieve, according to the company’s own incident updates cited by Japanese outlets...Read More
A ransomware attack has knocked out core systems at IDCF Cloud, the cloud computing platform run by SoftBank subsidiary IDC Frontier, cutting off services for 495 companies and local governments across Japan since the early hours of October 7, 2026. The outage, confirmed by the company and first reported in English by BleepingComputer, has taken...Read More
NEED TO KNOW Aanya Mukherjee says severe harassment at her former school in California affected her confidence, mental health and her grades About a year ago, the 17-year-old founded Buy Yourself Flowers after noticing other teens were often excluded from mental health discussions Her nonprofit has since donated about 500 mental health toolkits, called “bloom...Read More
“The support of my family and friends was really the flow that helped get me through everything, and they continually moored me back to the person that I am,” she said. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Monica Lewinsky, whose name became globally recognized in 1989 during the scandal involving an affair with President Bill Clinton, shared her...Read More
Washington — The FBI this week arrested another individual suspected of being connected to ShinyHunters, the cybercriminal group that hacked the bureau’s job website and stole personal data about its employees, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday. “This is the latest arrest this FBI has made in a matter of days involving this network,...Read More
WASHINGTON (TNND) — FBI agents have arrested another suspected co-conspirator linked to ShinyHunters, the cybercrime group believed to be behind the recent breach of FBIJobs.gov, FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday. “Our agents in the field have arrested another suspected co-conspirator of the ShinyHunters group,” Patel wrote on X, calling it the latest arrest made...Read More
Meta Platforms reached multibillion-dollar agreements with state authorities Wednesday that would place its treatment of young Facebook and Instagram users under judicially enforceable limits, resolving claims under state consumer-protection laws and federal child-privacy law. The principal agreement, reached with 47 states, the District of Columbia, and three US territories, provides for payments of up to...Read More
Social media in Poland is filled with talk of an online challenge that could be behind the attacks A police officer and a firefighter work at the site of a deadly attack at a school by a 15-year-old former pupil, in Leszczydol-Nowiny, Wyszkow County, northeast of Warsaw, Poland, October 8, 2026. The Thursday incident came...Read More
