Russia has free four members of a notorious hacking gang, despite sentencing them to five years in prison on Monday. The Verge, citing the Russian state-owned news agency TASS, reported that four members of the REvil ransomware gang were released from custody in Russia, despite pleading guilty to fraud and malware distribution charges. It was...Read More

BreachForums was arguably the biggest cybercrime forum until it went offline in April amid rumors of the arrest of one of its most prominent members. The forum’s primary domain has remained offline since then even as sites have popped up claiming to be BreachForums’ replacement. In the latest twist to the on-again, off-again saga of...Read More

French authorities have arrested several individuals suspected of running BreachForums, one of the world’s largest online marketplaces for stolen data, according to a French news report. Four of the suspects — known online as ShinyHunters, Hollow, Noct, and Depressed — are in their twenties and were detained earlier this week by France’s Cybercrime Brigade (BL2C),...Read More

MANSFIELD — Andrea Moyer is a master of details. Whether it’s making sure there’s a plan in place for every scenario or coordinating with local police to make sure children are safe on their walk to school, student safety is always at the top of her mind. The director of school improvement and safety for Mansfield...Read More

Executive Summary The recent conflict involving Iran, particularly its military engagements with Israel and the U.S., significantly heightens the risk of cyber spillover. This extends traditional battlegrounds into the digital realm. While we have not yet seen a dramatic uptick in Iranian-directed cyberattacks, further escalations could manifest as a surge in cyber operations by both...Read More

Why Cybersecurity Stocks Are Booming While our economy has been computerized for a while, it is still getting increasingly connected. Data that used to be stored locally is now in the cloud. Work is not done in one office but remotely by delocalized teams, often in multiple countries. Most of the software we use is...Read More

A major hospital in the UK says a ransomware attack contributed to the death of a patient.  The June 2024 attack caused major disruptions at Synnovis, a local blood testing provider, forcing it to cancel or delay over 1,000 patient appointments and procedures. On Wednesday, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust confirmed that “one patient...Read More

French authorities have dismantled a major cybercrime operation, arresting five hackers who operated BreachForum, one of the world’s largest marketplaces for stolen data, in coordinated raids across France. French police initially suspected the cybercriminals operating BreachForum were Russian or hiding in Russian-speaking territories. However, investigations revealed that four French hackers in their twenties were arrested...Read More

The Paris police force’s cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums. The arrests on Monday follow the earlier capture in February of a person police suspect of being a cyber crook known as IntelBroker, taking the total number of suspected BreachForums admins...Read More

I love cooking — I am a food editor, after all — but at the end of a very long day, the last thing I want to do is cook dinner. There, I said it. I can be staring at the fastest, easiest, one-dish recipes and still pick up my phone and open Seamless or...Read More