WINONA, Minn. (KTTC) – Winona County officials confirm they negotiated and paid a $128,539.57 ransom following a cyberattack earlier this year, even as they continue to investigate a second, unrelated ransomware incident that struck just months later. In a joint update, the Winona County Board of Commissioners detailed their ongoing response to the two separate...Read More
Cybersecurity in the telecom industry protects the networks, signaling systems, and subscriber data that carry the world’s voice, messaging, and internet traffic. Because every other sector depends on connectivity, a breach of a telecom operator ripples outward into banks, hospitals, governments, and homes. The threat has intensified. Nation-state espionage runs alongside criminal activity, and cybersecurity...Read More
African Action Congress presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has demanded an apology from the Department of State Services and the withdrawal of the cybercrime case filed against him. Sowore made the demand on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Monday, after the DSS directed its counsel to seek an adjournment of the case until after the...Read More
Most of the top security teams are using AI agents, employing them to support human activity rather than replace it, according to Hack The Box. The latest three-year benchmark data from the cyber readiness platform finds disproportionate use of agents among many of the strongest-performing teams. More than two-thirds (68%) of the top 25 teams...Read More
Athena Agentic Acquires Omni Cyber Solutions Agentic Platform, it’s Second Acquisition this Year This asset purchase brings the Omni Cyber Solutions Agentic Platform and its AI-powered security operations technology into the Athena Agentic portfolio, enhancing the Athena Unified Cyber Operations Platform’s vulnerability scanning, Shadow AI, and penetration testing capabilities. DALLAS, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ —...Read More
The National Cybercrime Threat Analytics Unit (NCTAU), functioning under the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), has issued a public advisory warning against a surge in financial fraud linked to malicious Android applications masquerading as adult content platforms. Promoted via advertisements on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram under names such...Read More
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed infrastructure associated with the Russian-speaking cybercrime group, leading to the discovery of its toolkit, shell...Read More
The US Justice Department has quietly rewritten a press release that said Chinese hackers had claimed victims across the Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and half a dozen other federal bodies. The revised version says those organisations were targets, and that only some were actually compromised, as Reuters reported. The original text went out on...Read More
With Phase II third-party assessments suspended, Magna5 says contractors should verify current cybersecurity obligations, reporting, and evidence while the Department reviews the next phase of CMMC. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Department of Defense (DoD) suspended Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Phase II requirements that had been scheduled for Nov. 10 while a...Read More
