A police commissioner once responsible for cybercrime investigations across Japan was fired and faces prosecution over allegations he falsified overseas business expenses to embezzle public funds for his personal use. The National Police Agency dismissed Ko Ikai, 55, on Sept. 10 after its investigation found he faked receipts on 50 occasions between July 2022 and...Read More
UK Council Attack Linked to Mass Exploitation of SonicWall Flaw Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2026 A critical SonicWall flaw was rapidly weaponized, with a UK Council attack linked to a campaign that exposed credentials and enabled Active Directory theft. On July 17, 2026, the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk announced it had...Read More
Former EY and PwC cyber leader transitions from Cyble’s Advisory Board to an operating role, bringing decades of cybersecurity, risk, law enforcement and enterprise leadership experience. CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cyble, an AI-native cybersecurity company, announced the appointment of Steve Ingram as Executive Vice President, US, as Cyble accelerates growth in the...Read More
ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s Security Council is expanding its focus to a broader range of national security risks, including information and cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, personal data protection, economic crime and civil protection, under new regulations approved by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Sept. 11. Photo credit: Akorda. Tokayev signed a decree approving the regulations on the Security...Read More
he Communications and Digital Ministry is pushing Meta to fully comply with the country’s Child Protection in Digital Space Regulation, known as PP TUNAS, following a landmark ruling in the United States that found the company’s child safety measures lacking. Alexander Sabar, the ministry’s director general for digital oversight, said earlier this week that US...Read More
Regulatory obligations remain with the data controller Under the Privacy Act 1988 and the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme, notification obligations sit with the data controller regardless of where a breach originated. A mandatory ransomware reporting regime, which commenced on May 30, 2025, under the Cyber Security Act 2024, now also applies to businesses with...Read More
Federal agents have arrested a 30-year-old Bridgeville man on federal charges of producing and distributing child sexual abuse material. According to court documents, Thomas Twilley is accused of sexually abusing a child, taking sexually explicit photos of the child and sharing the images with an administrator of an online CSAM network. Twilley faces charges of...Read More
Cheque books seized by Balangir police Bhubaneswar: Balangir district police have busted an organised cybercrime network allegedly using Philippines-routed WhatsApp numbers to evade detection and coordinate cyber fraud operations. Four members of the international gang were arrested on Thursday, police said on Friday.The arrested accused were identified as Prakash Sharma (26) and Sunny Barve alias...Read More
A new phishing campaign is moving fake login pages into victims’ browsers. Rather than sending people to a malicious website, its operators use browser-generated blob URLs to assemble the page in local memory, leaving less for security tools to inspect before it appears. The operation starts with a DocuSign-themed email carrying a calendar invitation. Its...Read More
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