African airlines are facing a significant threat from cybercrime, with millions lost annually to payment fraud. A recent report by Visa in collaboration with the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) sheds light on the vulnerabilities facing these airlines and offers solutions to address the issue, ultimately boosting revenue and improving passenger payments. Michael Berner, Head of...Read More
WARREN, Ohio, (WKBN) — Trumbull County Auditor Martha Yoder is appealing a county judge’s decision that her office pay Bazetta Township over $80,000 it lost when the township’s tax fund was mistakenly deposited into a fraudulent bank account. Read next: Ohio primary election: What’s on the ballot, and where can I vote? Yoder filed an...Read More
The UK has announced a series of new cybersecurity assessment schemes in a bid to push secure by design principles. Unveiled at the CYBERUK 2025 conference, the new initiatives are designed to enable firms to demonstrate their cyber resiliency, and boost confidence in the products and services used by organizations. The first scheme is the...Read More
Play ransomware exploited Windows zero-day. getty The ransomware threat is far from over, despite the internal private communications of some of the cybercriminal gangs being leaked, snitches being offered big bucks for information on gang members, and the childishness of DOGE-trolling attackers demanding $1 trillion payments. If you want evidence of this, look no further...Read More
Cybercrime continues to be a rapidly rising threat, with cases in the Philippines tripling to 10,004 in 2024, according to the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC). CIBI Information Inc., the country’s first and only local credit bureau, recognizing the urgent need for a coordinated, data-driven approach to fight cybercrime, officially launches the Fraud Bureau....Read More
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Emily Juarez no longer feels safe letting her two older children ride public transportation or walk to their LA Unified school after an increase in reports of violence near district campuses. “I stopped maybe a couple of weeks ago,” Juarez...Read More
WASHINGTON — Twelve Chinese nationals — including mercenary hackers, law enforcement officers and employees of a private hacking company — have been charged in connection with global cybercrime campaigns targeting dissidents, news organizations, U.S. agencies and universities, the Justice Department said Wednesday. A set of criminal cases filed in New York and Washington add new...Read More
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the primary U.S. nonprofit fighting child sexual exploitation, said Friday that it is removing all references to transgender people from its public materials. The move is in accordance with an executive order President Trump signed last week, which bars federal funding that goes to “gender ideology”...Read More
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that 205 alleged child sex predators who preyed on children online have been arrested in the last five days. The arrests are part of a new joint operation by the Justice Department and FBI called “Operation Restore Justice,” which saw 115 children across the...Read More
From the convergence of cybercrime and nation-state espionage to the strategic misuse of trusted platforms like Microsoft Azure and SaaS APIs, the cybersecurity landscape has grown more complex than ever in 2024. SentinelLABS has been at the forefront of these challenges, analyzing trends, uncovering campaigns, and equipping organizations with actionable intelligence. In this post, we...Read More
