Justice Yellim Bogoro of the High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday sentenced an employee of Ecobank, Solomon Ufayo, to one year in prison for committing cybercrime involving ₦2.4 million. The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) brought a one-count charge against Ufayo, to which he pleaded guilty. According...Read More
Managed services/managed security services provider Abacus Group has acquired Entara. Purchasing the Chicago-based firm, provider of managed services and managed security services to the financial services sector, will help Abacus enhance its cybersecurity, professional services and digital infrastructure offerings, the company said Wednesday (June 18). “Complementing its deep financial services IT and security expertise, Abacus...Read More
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Attacks Tied to SafePay, Qlin, Play and Akira Surge; Scattered Spider Returns Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 18, 2025 It’s shake-up season in the ransomware world as old brands have disappeared, forcing an affiliate diaspora and perverse innovation from a criminal underworld in flux. See Also:...Read More
Surat: A gang of cybercriminals has been been booked under the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime Act (GuJCTOC) for allegedly facilitating transactions worth Rs 197 crore — proceeds of cyber fraud — through 1,029 bank accounts linked to 214 FIRs registered across the country.The gang of Milan Darji and 10 others allegedly layered,...Read More
Russia’s sophisticated cyber warfare strategy emerges as a calculated blend of state power and non-state agility, leveraging private companies, hacktivists, and criminal proxies to amplify its digital dominance. The roots of this hybrid model trace back to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, when economic turmoil and institutional breakdown created a lawless digital...Read More
Monday, the 23rd, & Tuesday, the 24th, there’ll be FREE Cybersecurity Clinics in Cut Bank, & Chester. CB’s scheduled for Monday, & Tuesday’s in Chester. The event is open to the public to raise cybersecurity awareness in Cut Bank, & Chester, & ALL 56 Montana counties. If you’re a small business owner, senior citizen, student...Read More
By Alex Davidson ( June 18, 2025, 4:43 PM BST) — A European financial markets trade body on Wednesday warned the U.K.’s Home Office that its proposed ban on paying ransomware demands to criminals could destabilize financial markets and lead to cross-border confusion…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts...Read More
Partnership aims to integrate legal research, digital forensics, and operational training, creating a law-and-technology model to tackle cyber threats more effectively across the State Published Date – 18 June 2025, 09:22 PM
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Hyderabad: In a move to strengthen cybercrime enforcement and legal expertise in Telangana, the Telangana Cyber Security Bureau...Read More
The Israel-linked hacker group known as Predatory Sparrow has carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in history, twice disabling thousands of gas station payment systems across Iran and once even setting a steel mill in the country on fire. Now, in the midst of a new war unfolding between the two...Read More
A comprehensive new study reveals the sophisticated architecture behind Russia’s externalized cyber warfare strategy, exposing how the Kremlin systematically exploits private companies, hacktivist collectives, and cybercriminal groups to enhance its digital offensive capabilities while maintaining plausible deniability. The research demonstrates that Russia’s cyber outsourcing model emerged from the chaotic post-Soviet collapse of 1991, when institutional...Read More
