Montgomery County officials are raising awareness about a growing problem affecting older adults: financial exploitation and elder abuse. At an event in Silver Spring marking World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, experts shared warnings about sophisticated scams targeting seniors and encouraged victims to seek help. Community leaders, prosecutors and advocates gathered at the Holiday Park Senior...Read More

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is strengthening its defenses as the global artificial intelligence (AI) race hots up. The social media giant’s billion-dollar AI division, Meta Superintelligence Labs, has reportedly hired the three co-founders and key team members of prominent AI security startup Virtue AI. According to a report by Axios, Meta is bringing in the founders...Read More

In this article Infostealers continue to be some of the most pervasive and impactful threats across the cybercrime ecosystem. They play a central role in intrusions, silently harvesting passwords, cookies, and session tokens before exfiltrating stolen data to attacker-controlled infrastructure. If not mitigated, these threats can turn a single consumer-device compromise into an enterprise risk:...Read More

In brief The Linux Foundation launched Akrites on Thursday with 19 founding members to coordinate the remediation of critical open source vulnerabilities before AI-enabled attackers can exploit them. Fewer than 5% of the thousands of open-source vulnerabilities surfaced by AI in recent months have been patched, according to Endor Labs CEO Varun Badhwar. Akrites is...Read More

In brief Developer Fernando Irarrázaval’s experiment at hackmyclaw.com drew over 6,000 hack attempts from more than 2,000 attackers after going viral on Hacker News. Nobody was able to extract the target credentials file. Side effects included a Google account suspension, $500-plus in API costs, and an AI that had diagnosed its own situation by email...Read More

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Friday it is restricting the release of its new artificial intelligence model at the request of President Donald Trump’s administration, the latest in an unprecedented government vetting of AI products that could pose cybersecurity risks. OpenAI said its new AI product, called GPT-5.6 Sol, would only be available for now to...Read More

Watch the full interview now as a VladTV Youtube Member: Click Here Part 3: Jimmy Easy on Shooting Business Partner in Front of His Mom for Hanging Up on HimPart 1: Jimmy Easy on Handling His First Robbery Attempt by Splitting Guy’s Head Open ——– In a chilling interview, mobster Jimmy Easy recounted a brutal...Read More

Polish cybercrime investigators arrested four suspects accused of hijacking phone numbers, breaking into crypto exchange accounts and laundering large sums through bank accounts, payment platforms and digital wallets via SIM-swapping attacks Key takeaways Polish cyber police arrested four alleged members of an organized cybercrime group. Investigators say the gang used SIM swapping to take over...Read More

There number of ransomware attacks against organizations across Europe has significantly increased during the past year, a new report has warned. This according to analysis of publicly disclosed ransomware incidents by researchers at cyber risk management provider Black Kite. They found that ransomware attacks rose 55.1% year-over-year in the first four months of 2026 and reached...Read More

Russian-linked hackers were behind last year’s devastating cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover that cost the automotive giant $2.5 billion, according to a new report. The breach, which crippled production lines and exposed sensitive corporate data, now ranks among the most expensive cybersecurity incidents in corporate history. The attribution comes as automotive manufacturers face escalating threats...Read More