Williamsport, Pa. — A Jersey Shore man who attempted to meet children online was sentenced Tuesday at the Lycoming County Courthouse. Bobby Gene George, 24, will spend up to 21 months at a state correctional institution and another three years on probation after his release. George will be registered on the Sex Offender Registration and...Read More
Writing on its blog Tuesday evening (Aug. 5), the tech giant’s Threat Intelligence Group said one of its Salesforce database systems, used to house contact information and related notes for small and medium-sized businesses, was breached by a hacking group known as ShinyHunters. “Analysis revealed that data was retrieved by the threat actor during a small window...Read More
Two sophisticated ransomware operations have emerged as significant threats to managed service providers (MSPs) and small businesses, with the Akira and Lynx groups deploying advanced attack techniques that combine stolen credentials with vulnerability exploitation. These ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations have collectively compromised over 365 organizations, demonstrating their effectiveness in targeting high-value infrastructure providers that serve multiple...Read More
WARNING: This story contains distressing content. A 15-year-old Aboriginal boy, subject to a child protection order, died by suicide in a Queensland residential care home last weekend. If you or anyone you know needs help: Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467 Lifeline on 13 11 14 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander crisis support...Read More
Students in Naperville and across the country are getting ready to go back to school, making this the perfect time to remind students, parents and the community about the Naperville Police Department’s August Safer Naper topic: Back-to-School Safety. General Back to School Tips No matter what a student’s age, be sure to discuss important safety...Read More
Navy pushing for AI to bolster authentication in a zero trust environment AI agents can create behavioral profiles that can more accurately authenticate not just a person or a device, but authenticate a person to a specific device. Daisy Thornton@dthorntonWFED August 6, 2025 4:55 pm 3 min read It’s perhaps no surprise that two of...Read More
Akira ransomware is abusing a legitimate Intel CPU tuning driver to turn off Microsoft Defender in attacks from security tools and EDRs running on target machines. The abused driver is ‘rwdrv.sys’ (used by ThrottleStop), which the threat actors register as a service to gain kernel-level access. This driver is likely used to load a second driver,...Read More
Researchers at Infoblox have released new findings on VexTrio, a large criminal enterprise that uses a set of traffic distribution systems (TDSs), lookalike domains and registered domain generation algorithms (RDGAs) to deliver malware, scams and illegal content. The researchers have been able to link nine individuals, shell companies and a sprawling infrastructure to the global...Read More
06 Aug The Growing Impact Of AI And Quantum On Cybersecurity Posted at 08:17h in Blogs by Taylor Fox This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 6, 2025 – Read the full story in Forbes The amalgamation of artificial intelligence (AI) with quantum computing will transform existing computational...Read More
Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a major data leak at a Florida-based data solutions provider, IMDataCenter. The leak exposed a massive database containing personal details of users and client companies. The misconfigured database, with CSV and PDF files, contained a staggering 38GB of information from 10,820 records and was left wide open on the internet...Read More
