A suspected Chinese-government-backed cyber crew recently broke into a Taiwanese web hosting provider to steal credentials and plant backdoors for long-term access, using a mix of open-source and custom software tools, Cisco Talos reports. Talos tracks the Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) group as UAT-7237 and says that it has been active since at least...Read More
Quds News reports: Las Vegas police, working with the FBI, Homeland Security, and Nevada’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, announced the arrest of eight men on Wednesday. One of them was Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, a top Israeli cyberwarfare official. Alexandrovich works directly under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He serves as Acting Head...Read More
LOUISIANA – Louisiana has taken legal action against the online gaming platform Roblox, accusing it of creating an environment where sexual predators can easily target children. The lawsuit was filed in state court by the Louisiana Attorney General. It claims that Roblox has not implemented effective safety measures to protect its young users. This is...Read More
A cyber criminal who hacked into the websites of organisations in North America, Yemen and Israel and stole the log in details of millions of people has been jailed. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky, 26, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was arrested by specialist National Crime Agency cybercrime officers in August 2022, who were acting on intelligence supplied by...Read More
Research: 43 per cent of Australian ransomware victims pay criminals to recover their data Ransomware attacks – and their impact – are on the rise in Australia, according to a new study from Barracuda. Organisations in Australia are more likely to pay a ransom following a ransomware attack than companies in any other country, new...Read More
Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 | 11:59 a.m. A multi-agency operation targeting alleged child sex predators has resulted in the arrests of eight men over the past two weeks, authorities announced this morning. The eight suspects, ranging in age from 23 to 49, face felony charges of luring a child with a computer for sex acts....Read More
CloudSEK uncovered a Pakistan-based family cybercrime network that spread infostealers via pirated software, netting $4.67M and millions of victims. The operation’s secrets were revealed when the scammers themselves were compromised. Cybersecurity intelligence firm CloudSEK has uncovered a sophisticated, family-run multi-million-dollar cybercrime operation based out of Pakistan. CloudSEK’s TRIAD team’s investigation revealed a syndicate that’s been...Read More
“Roblox” faced a wave of new lawsuits this week that allege the popular gaming platform hasn’t done enough to safeguard kids from pedophiles and sexual content. One of the latest complaints, filed in a federal court in the Northern District of California, claims that a predator posed as a child on the platform and sexually...Read More
Rotherham hacker Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky jailed for 20 months after global cyberattacks, stealing millions of logins and targeting government websites. When police knocked on the door of a home in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in August 2022, they ended a hacking spree that had stretched across North America, the Middle East and Israel. The man behind it,...Read More
A petition calling for the resignation of Roblox CEO David Baszucki has gained more than 100,000 signatures, citing concerns over child safety on the platform. Launched on August 9 2025, the petition alleges that Roblox has failed to protect children from exploitation and harmful content. It further claims that, under Baszucki’s leadership, accountability and transparency...Read More
