Mumbai: The city crime branch has uncovered a racket in which fraudsters allegedly got taxi drivers to open bank accounts that were used to park and route funds generated through cybercrimes. Police suspect transactions worth around Rs 350 crore were routed through such mule accounts, linked to cybercrime proceeds generated nationwide.While tracking mule accounts, officers...Read More
Ukrainian national Oleksii Lytvynenko has received a four-year US prison sentence for his role in Conti, the ransomware operation linked to more than $150 million in victim payments. Key takeaways Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud tied to Conti ransomware He admitted to possessing stolen data...Read More
A senior writer at WIRED decided to find out just how dangerous a jailbroken artificial intelligence model could be — so he let it loose inside his own house. Will Knight, who covers AI for the outlet, ran an AI agent hacking gadgets throughout his home network after stripping the safety guardrails off a powerful...Read More
Cybersecurity researchers have unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that dramatically improves how machines identify never-before-seen threat terms buried in unstructured security reports, a longstanding weak point in automated cyber defense. The model, called VIB-NER, was developed by a team at the National Security Research Institute at Shihezi University in Xinjiang, China, and is described...Read More
The Week In Short The OpenAI / Hugging Face hack stirred up discourse about the dangers of rogue AI, while the model-makers move to bring in big cybersecurity bucks. Dimension founder Zavain Dar explains what Silicon Valley can learn from Chinese AI companies on the podcast. Inference provider Baseten scoops up an early-stage infrastructure startup....Read More
Independent candidate for Governor says protecting children, parents and classrooms must come before Big Tech profits NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla., Sept. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Non-party affiliated candidate for Florida Governor Frank Russo today announced that, if elected, he will support and sign legislation restricting addictive social media design features aimed at children under the...Read More
9/9/2026 Tools, resources available for educators, school leaders, law enforcement, and more This year’s back-to-school campaign from SchoolSafety.gov provides resources, tools, and guidance for the school year. School and district leaders, educators and staff, families and students, law enforcement, and other community partners can use the Back-to-School Toolbox and School Safety Actions one-pagers to discover...Read More
Ravie LakshmananSep 11, 2026Vulnerability / Malware Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities. The attacks leverage CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score: 10.0), an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web interface of FMC software that could allow an unauthenticated,...Read More
CYBER-CRIME Swapping legal work for malware development ended in extradition and a guilty plea A Ukrainian lawyer who wound up coding malware for the Conti ransomware gang has been sentenced to four years in a US prison. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to commit wire fraud over his role in...Read More
