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

Ransomware as a service. What is ransomware as a service? Ransomware as a service is a business model where ransomware operators and third parties, called “affiliates”, work together to launch ransomware attacks. RaaS was first identified in 2012 with the Reveton ransomware strain, and in the subsequent decade, it has exploded into a sophisticated and...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

Shayimamba Conco, cyber security expert at Check Point. Ransomware attacks rebounded in 2024 after law enforcement took down LockBit and Noberus, two of the most prolific ransomware syndicates. The former was said to have been responsible for around 25% of all victims listed on ransomware leak sites in 2023. In February 2025, the Cybersecurity and...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

Almost 60,000 Bitcoin addresses tied to LockBit’s ransomware infrastructure were leaked after hackers breached the group’s dark web affiliate panel.  The leak included a MySQL database dump shared publicly online. It contained crypto-related information that could help blockchain analysts trace the group’s illicit financial flows. Ransomware is a type of malware used by malicious actors....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

May 8, 2025 Microsoft is advancing its cybersecurity efforts with the introduction of AI-driven solutions aimed at preemptively tackling cyber threats. Rima Semaan, Data & AI lead at Microsoft UAE, explains how these innovations are transforming the digital security landscape. At the GISEC 2025 event, Microsoft unveiled a groundbreaking AI-powered phishing detection and triage agent,...Read More