ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – For the second day, a steady stream of St. Paul employees streamed in and out of Roy Wilkins Auditorium, which had been quickly converted to a password reset center. Eighty laptops were set up in two rows, accommodating the same number of people every 30 minutes. Out of 3,500...Read More
Indonesia’s government is reportedly considering a ban on Roblox, the widely used online game-creation platform, after the education minister warned that it could expose children to violence and other harmful behaviours. “There is a lot of violence in the game. Sometimes children don’t understand that what they see isn’t real,” Indonesian education minister Abdul Mu’ti...Read More
An Iowa teacher from Lake Mills has been arrested on child exploitation charges by the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office following a cybercrime investigation. Clayton County Sheriff Brent W. Ostrander reported Skylar William Hudnut Ahrens, 36, was arrested Friday after his undercover deputies posed as a 15-year-old girl on a social media platform. Ahrens is a...Read More
Back-to-school safety for students, residents The Texas Department of Transportation is urging drivers to stay alert and slow down as students head back to school. This comes as hundreds more students compared to last year are expected to head to Hays CISD campuses this year. HAYS COUNTY, Texas – The Texas Department of Transportation is...Read More
Quick Heal Technologies Limited, a global provider of cybersecurity solutions, has signed a transformative Memorandum of Understanding with BHASHINI, the government’s multilingual AI platform under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). This strategic partnership aims to make both cybersecurity and data privacy education accessible to millions of Indians by delivering critical digital safety...Read More
Ransomware has always been the cybercriminal’s blunt instrument, but in 2025 it has morphed into something even more alarming: a polished subscription business. On hidden Tor and I2P marketplaces, “vendors” offer fully managed extortion campaigns complete with user manuals, dashboards, and 24-hour “support.” For a few hundred dollars or a percentage of whatever the victim...Read More
SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. — Sunny Isles Beach police released video Monday showing its new $250,000 drone system in action. Leer en español Child sex crime suspect Wilman de Jesus Martinez Linares, 22, of Hollywood, was arrested after a traffic stop Friday on Collins Avenue near 191st Street. 6 p.m. report: Drone video shows takedown...Read More
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The FBI is warning the public about a large international cybercrime ring called “The Community,” or “The Com” for short, that targets teens and young adults as both victims and recruits. Ransomware attacks, swatting, cryptocurrency theft, extortion, sextortion — the range of crimes carried out by the crime ring is as...Read More
In early January, Megan Tong lost around $70,000 after hackers logged into one of her self-directed investment accounts, cashed in all her holdings and briefly bought and sold tens of thousands of dollars worth of two Chinese stocks. But Ms. Tong’s discount brokerage, Questrade Financial Group Inc., has declined to reimburse her for most of...Read More
Ahmedabad Crime Crackdown follows digital arrest of woman doc in G’nagar for 123 days; probe reveals account holders met with Chinese syndicates in Nepal Gujarat state police have launched an aggressive crackdown on “mule” bank accounts—accounts rented to cybercriminals for laundering money—after busting one of the biggest digital scams in India’s history. The scam shocked...Read More
