Cybersecurity Readiness Remains Flat as AI Transforms the Industry The Index evaluates companies’ readiness across five pillars—Identity Intelligence, Network Resilience, Machine Trustworthiness, Cloud Reinforcement, and AI Fortification— and encompasses 31 solutions and capabilities. Based on a double-blind survey of 8,000 private sector security and business leaders in 30 global markets, respondents detailed their deployment stages...Read More
Image courtesy of crypto.news A group claiming to be from Prague has hacked LockBit’s dark web panel, leaking sensitive data including its internal systems and Bitcoin wallets. LockBit, a notorious ransomware gang, had their internal data package compromised, which included over 60,000 Bitcoin BTC addresses, approximately 75 user credentials, and ransom negotiation logs. Analysts at...Read More
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Wednesday that 115 children were rescued in a new joint child sex operation by the Justice Department and FBI. 205 people believed to be child sex predators have been arrested in the last week, according to Bondi and Patel. The Justice Department and FBI...Read More
stock.adobe.com/LisLud The UN’s 193 Member States adopted a historic, legally binding agreement on cybercrime on 24 December 2024, capping five years of negotiations. Here are five key points on why the Convention matters for the world. 1. A new tool for a growing threat Some 67.4 per cent of the world’s population accessed the...Read More
RICHMOND, Va. — A former Henrico police officer is among the individuals the FBI Richmond Field Office arrested as part of a coordinated effort by FBI field offices across the country last week to apprehend alleged child sexual abuse offenders. Allan Martin of Henrico was arrested on April 29 for possession and receipt of child...Read More
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers on Wednesday published a report proposing a solution to the nation’s persistent shortage of cybersecurity workers: Create more programs that train prisoners and former prisoners for those jobs. One analysis tallies more than 450,000 open cybersecurity jobs in the United States, but counts enough workers to fill...Read More
Online predators are targeting children every day in the United States — Channel 9 got an inside look with an undercover operation to find these predators, and it turned out that we didn’t have to go far to find adults accused of soliciting children online. Our team followed Cabarrus County deputies as they tracked down...Read More
The cyber world is constantly evolving, and criminal groups in Latin America are adapting their modus operandi to make the most of it. Technological innovations brought about by the Internet era have influenced various criminal economies, from drug trafficking to money laundering. In Mexico, producers of synthetic drugs, such as fentanyl and methamphetamine, use the...Read More
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed what they say is an “industrial-scale, global cryptocurrency phishing operation” engineered to steal digital assets from cryptocurrency wallets for several years. The campaign has been codenamed FreeDrain by threat intelligence firms SentinelOne and Validin. “FreeDrain uses SEO manipulation, free-tier web services (like gitbook.io, webflow.io, and github.io), and layered redirection techniques to...Read More
LockBit’s dark web domains were hacked, exposing internal data, affiliate tools, and over 60,000 Bitcoin wallets in a major blow to the ransomware group. The ransomware group LockBit has suffered a serious blow after its dark web domain and infrastructure was hijacked and defaced by an unknown attacker. The breach, which surfaced on May 7,...Read More
