Aura, a US provider of identity protection services, has suffered a breach involving a hacker stealing 900,000 records about the company’s users.  On Tuesday night, the breach notification service Have I Been Pwned first flagged the incident, a couple days after the notorious hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility.  The breach is ironic considering Aura —which has...Read More

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (WSFA) – After being found guilty on 84 counts of child sex crimes in October, Jason Hudson was handed a sentence of 965 years in prison by Circuit Judge Amanda Baxley. It’s less than the maximum sentence of nearly 1,500 years behind bars that the state was hoping for, but the prosecution is...Read More

The Alabama Legislature passed HB 41, the Child Predator Death Penalty Act, on Thursday.Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall released a statement after it passed.”I applaud the Alabama Legislature for passing HB41, the Child Predator Death Penalty Act, which sends the strongest possible message that our state will not tolerate crimes against our children, who are...Read More

Ransomware attacks have evolved significantly over the past few years, moving far beyond their original purpose of simply encrypting files and demanding payment for their release. What began as a relatively straightforward cybercrime tactic has now transformed into more complex and aggressive strategies, such as double and even triple extortion.  In these scenarios, attackers not...Read More

What Darksword is and how it infects a phone Darksword is malware that targets iPhones through infected websites. Simply visiting such a site can allow the program to access your data. According to iVerify and Lookout, attackers have placed Darksword on dozens of Ukrainian websites. Devices running iOS versions 18.4 to 18.6.2 — released by...Read More

23 Oct Top 5 Cybersecurity Facts, Figures, Predictions, And Statistics For 2020 To 2021 What you need to know about the trillion dollar cyber economy over the next 2 years – Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief Sausalito, Calif. – Mar. 29, 2020 Cybercrime Magazine extrapolates the top 5 market data points from our research in order to...Read More

An unprecedented international law enforcement effort has successfully dismantled a massive cybercrime network. Coordinated by INTERPOL, the initiative targeted critical infrastructure used in phishing, malware, and ransomware campaigns worldwide. Operation Synergia III Dubbed “Operation Synergia III,” the global crackdown took place between July 18, 2025, and January 31, 2026. The operation brought together law enforcement...Read More

Today, the United States sanctioned two entities and eight individuals involved in supporting the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) illicit schemes to launder funds, including those derived from cybercrime and information technology (IT) worker fraud.  Included in today’s action are Ryujong Credit Bank, a North Korea-based financial institution that provided financial assistance to sanctions-...Read More

Cybercrime group ShinyHunters appears to have taken responsibility for the October 2025 data breach at Penn’s Graduate School of Education — releasing thousands of pages of additional internal University files on Wednesday. In a Feb. 4 post on the group’s forum, ShinyHunters wrote that it leaked the data because Penn “did not pay a ransom...Read More

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar 18, 2026– ZeroTier, one of the world’s top software-defined networking companies, announced today it was named a winner in the Software Industry Solution category of the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. This recognition highlights ZeroTier’s commitment to providing a robust, resilient, end-to-end encrypted networking platform for customers across the globe. × This...Read More