A concerning development has emerged in early 2026, as IBM X-Force uncovered a likely AI-generated malware strain they named “Slopoly,” deployed during a ransomware attack by the financially motivated threat group Hive0163. The group is primarily focused on large-scale data theft and ransomware deployments, using a growing arsenal of custom-built tools to stay persistent inside...Read More

The executive actions emphasize public-private partnerships, enhanced information sharing, and leveraging commercial cybersecurity capabilities. By Jennifer C. Archie, Marissa R. Boynton, Antony (Tony) Kim, Clayton Northouse, Michael H. Rubin, and Serrin Turner On March 6, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Combating Cybercrime, Fraud, and Predatory Schemes Against American Citizens” (the Order) that...Read More

In 80% of the cyber incidents Microsoft’s security teams investigated last year, attackers sought to steal data—a trend driven more by financial gain than intelligence gathering. According to the latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report, written with our Chief Information Security Officer Igor Tsyganskiy, over half of cyberattacks with known motives were driven by extortion or...Read More

On March 6, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Combating Cybercrime, Fraud, and Predatory Schemes Against American Citizens” (the Order) that directs an interagency coalition to improve existing policy frameworks to address cyber threats and target transnational criminal organizations. The White House also published the long-anticipated Cyber Strategy for America (the Cyber Strategy),...Read More

Capitals also sanctioned Chinese company Integrity Technology Group and Chinese firm Anxun Information Technology, also known as i-Soon, and its co-founders Chen Cheng and Wu Haibo, who are banned from entering the EU, the EU sanctions listing showed. According to the details of the sanctions, Anxun Information Technology targeted “critical infrastructure and critical state functions”...Read More

JACKSON, Miss.—A devastating cyberattack using ransomware hit the University of Mississippi Medical Center Thursday morning, bringing down its IT network and forcing the university to temporarily close its clinics and cancel appointments and surgeries all over the state due to the outage.  LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of...Read More

/Editor’s Pick State police offering free online safety program 1 / 3 Parents should monitor the video games their children are playing. [MetroCreative] 2 / 3 Trooper Rocco Gagliardi gives an example of a Roblox game rated for children, but that has sexual undertones and could...Read More

A newly discovered botnet malware called KadNap is targeting ASUS routers and other edge networking devices to turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. Since August 2025, KadNap has grown to 14,000 devices that are part of a peer-to-peer network and connect to the command-and-control (C2) infrastructure through a custom version of the Kademlia Distributed Hash Table...Read More

By Amy Hogan-Burney, Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust In the first half of 2025, Microsoft data showed that the UAE ranked 9th globally and 2nd in the Middle East and Africa for frequency of customers impacted by cyber activity, accounting for about 11.7% of affected customers in the region. In the same timeframe,...Read More

Iranian government-backed snoops are increasingly using cybercrime malware and ransomware infrastructure in their operations – not just hiding behind criminal masks as a cover for destructive cyber activity, according to security researchers. Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)-linked operatives appear to be the biggest offenders, according to Check Point Research, citing “repeated overlaps” between MuddyWater...Read More