By Committee to Protect Journalists Kampala —The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Tuesday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court of Uganda to declare criminal defamation unconstitutional, the latest African court to abolish the crime in recent years. In a consolidated judgment, in response to three petitions filed by rights groups in 2022, the court also nullified...Read More

Google’s Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization. Available now in public preview, the dark web intelligence service built into Google Threat Intelligence uses Gemini’s models to build a profile of a user’s organization....Read More

RSA 2026 Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government’s top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to share information, in real time, about this loosely knit extortion ring that was terrorizing enterprises....Read More

Maryland is rolling out apprenticeships in cybersecurity along with a new system that makes it easier for employers to take part. The Maryland Workforce Association (MWA) is anchoring a new registered cybersecurity apprenticeship that builds on the state’s partnership with BCR Cyber, a workforce development company. BCR Cyber is providing 171 hours of instruction for...Read More

The Tycoon2FA phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform that Europol and partners disrupted on March 4 has already returned to previously observed activity levels. Microsoft led the technical disruption, which involved seizing 330 domains part of Tycoon2FA’s backbone infrastructure that included control panels and phishing pages used in attacks. However, the disruption caused by the law enforcement was short-lived,...Read More

14 men arrested in online child predator operation A child predator sting operation is making a dent in Metro Detroit’s most dangerous threats to your kids. It started in Taylor, but the accused traveled from all over the area to meet up with what they thought were kids for sex. TAYLOR, Mich. (FOX 2) –...Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – As autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents begin to operate with system-level privileges across global enterprises, CrowdStrike Inc. has massively expanded its Falcon platform, positioning the endpoint as the critical frontline for AI governance. The announcement at RSAC here signals a strategic shift in how organizations defend against agentic workflows that can independently...Read More

Last week, cybersecurity researchers uncovered a hacking campaign targeting iPhone users that used an advanced hacking tool called DarkSword. Now, someone has leaked a newer version of DarkSword and published it on the code sharing site GitHub. Researchers are warning that this will allow any hacker to easily use the tools to target iPhone users...Read More

A K-12 school safety and student well-being solutions provider that runs a tip-reporting platform has reportedly been hit by a major cyberattack. The breach may have exposed the personal information of students attending more than 30,000 schools in the United States. A hacker claimed to have accessed systems operated by Navigate360, specifically its tip line...Read More

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE NEWS RELEASE Agents with the New Mexico Department of Justice’s Special Investigations Bureau, working in coordination with the FBI, have arrested Thomas Nathaniel Goff. He is charged with Child Solicitation by Electronic Communication Device. Goff is accused of soliciting what he believed to be a 12-year-old girl for sex and attempting to...Read More