Settlement Marks OCR’s 15th Ransomware Enforcement Action and 10th Enforcement Action in OCR’s Risk Analysis Initiative Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement with BST & Co. CPAs, LLP (“BST”), a New York public accounting, business advisory, and management consulting firm, concerning a potential...Read More
23 Feb Cybersecurity Jobs Report: 3.5 Million Unfilled Positions In 2025 Posted at 03:01h in Reports by Cybercrime Magazine While tech firms are firing, our industry is hiring Download Report – Steve Morgan, Editor-in-Chief Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 14, 2023 Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings in 2013 to 3.5...Read More
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Cybercrime has seen a staggering rise over recent years, with past estimates putting it at a worldwide cost of $10.5 trillion in 2025. Thankfully, today the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and Europol put the kibosh on the LeakBase database, a hacker forum operating across 14 different countries. According to the press releases, the authorities...Read More
In terms of execution, the ransomware accepts specific parameters: –password (Required): 8-byte password parameter needed to execute the ransomware –path (Optional): Target path parameter for specifying custom encryption directory The ransomware aggressively attempts to terminate key services commonly associated with backup, database, and security processes to maximize its impact: net stop (.*)sql(.*), AcrSch2Svc, VSNAPVSS, MVarmor64,...Read More
The staggering prediction by Cybersecurity Ventures that global cybercrime damages would reach $10.5 trillion USD annually by 2025 has served as a wake-up call for governments, businesses, and cybersecurity professionals. A BitGuardian blog post states that as of Feb. 2026, this widely cited milestone remains a pivotal benchmark in discussions about the economic scale of cyber threats. If cybercrime...Read More
Paul Sculfor. Distributed by Hamlins Four hacking claims against the publisher of the Mirror have been dismissed as a judge found the claimants could have known they had a case before the six-year time limit was up. However one case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) from a pool of test cases was allowed to continue....Read More
13 Sep Ransomware Will Strike Every 2 Seconds By 2031 Posted at 15:38h in Blogs by Cybercrime Magazine Gangs, strains, and statistics CISOs and cybersecurity teams should know – Steve Morgan Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 28, 2023 Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that by 2031, ransomware will cost victims $265 billion annually, and it will attack a...Read More
New South Wales authorities have applied to have child molester and former fugitive Charles Batham transferred from a jail in Perth in order to face fresh criminal charges. The British-born aviator is serving a nine-year jail sentence in Western Australia, after being convicted of sexually abusing two girls in the northern WA town of Broome....Read More
Catch up on the top industries and stocks that were impacted, or were predicted to be impacted, by the comments, actions and policies of President Donald Trump with this daily recap compiled by The Fly. CYBERCRIME: The White House announced, “President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to combat cybercrime, fraud, and predatory schemes...Read More
