SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3) – As the new school year gets underway and your child begins using the internet for schoolwork or to play games with friends, the Better Business Bureau has online safety tips for families. Adults aren’t the only ones who can be targeted by a scam. While BBB does not collect...Read More
Patna: The importance of collaboration between various units to combat economic and cybercrimes was highlighted at a meeting convened by the Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the state police on Monday. Additional director general (ADG), EOU, Nayyar Hasnain Khan, said effective coordination was vital to address the growing challenges in this field. Held at the...Read More
The network that hosts online services for the office of Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is offline after a recent “cyber incident,” according to a notice Sunday posted to his official X account on Monday. Affected systems include the AG office’s website, email and phone lines. “We are taking steps to determine the cause of...Read More
SonicWall insists a spree of ransomware attacks hitting its Gen 7 firewalls is not linked to a zero-day vulnerability, but rather a critical defect the company previously disclosed and patched last summer in its network security operating system. The vendor disputed initial assessments from outside researchers suggesting the speed and scale of the attacks pointed...Read More
Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix. The bug, tracked as CVE-2025-8088, is a path-traversal flaw that affects the Windows version of the decompression tool. It received an 8.4 CVSS rating and, according to WinRAR, has been patched in the newest version,...Read More
Introduction Cyber-enabled fraud, or “cyber scams,” have emerged as an increasingly urgent security concern in the last two years. The compounds out of which they operate exist in multiple locations globally but have been most prolific in the special economic zones (SEZs) and fragile spaces in the Indo-Pacific region, especially Southeast Asia, where they have...Read More
Alfred Liddle, 32, is now behind bars after being sentenced by a Judge following a complex police operation by officers from the North East Regional Organised Crime Unit (NEROCU) and Northumbria Police’s MOSOVO Safeguarding teams. Liddle, of no fixed abode, believed he was talking to a 14-year-old girl online and persisted in sending her sexually explicit...Read More
Panaji: Goa police on Monday arrested a man in connection with alleged digital cyber fraud involving over Rs 1 crore. Goa police said that the accused’s bank account is linked to 13 criminal cases across 10 states, involving a total amount of over Rs 9 crore.SP (cybercrime) Rahul Gupta said that based on a Quepem...Read More
When cybersecurity student Emery Rios got an email about winning an RIT award, they immediately thought it was suspicious. Luckily, after a bit of investigation, Rios was able to confirm that the email was not a phishing attack. Rios, a combined accelerated cybersecurity BS/MS student, was selected for the Norman A. Miles Award for Academic...Read More
