COMPANY NEWS: Company celebrates further recognition of excellence as two employees named finalists in individual award categories Lumify Group has been named ‘Cyber Security Training Business of the Year’ in the 2025 Australian Cyber Awards, highlighting its commitment to boosting the next generation of cyber talent in Australia. Two employees of Lumify Group were also...Read More
Microsoft addressed 126 vulnerabilities affecting its systems and core products, including a zero-day in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) that’s been actively exploited in a series of ransomware attacks, the company said in its latest security update Tuesday. A group Microsoft tracks as Storm-2460 has exploited CVE-2025-29824 to initiate ransomware attacks “against a...Read More
On April 14, Denver-based kidney dialysis provider DaVita disclosed that it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The company stated that it first noticed the breach on April 12. “Upon discovery, we activated our response protocols and implemented containment measures, including proactively isolating impacted systems. We are actively working to assess and remediate the incident...Read More
“Looking back to the 1990s and early 2000s, you needed to have a reasonable level of technical competence to pull off these types of crimes,” Nicholas Court, assistant director of Interpol’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre, told CNBC. Imaginima | E+ | Getty Images An expanding network of cybercrime marketplaces is making it easier than...Read More
Similarly, according to a 2024 report by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), ransomware continues to evolve and disrupt with “critical services, businesses, and communities worldwide, causing costly incidents that are increasingly destructive and disruptive.” According to the report, it costs businesses an average of $1.85 million to recover from a ransomware attack. Adding salt...Read More
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the Nigerian Guild of Editors have urged President Bola Tinubu’s government to end the use of the “draconian” Cybercrimes Act to target journalists, activists, critics, and ordinary Nigerians for peacefully expressing their opinions online. In a joint statement released on Sunday and signed by SERAP Deputy Director...Read More
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Crimes Center (C3) has announced the expansion of its global presence with the addition of four new International Cyber Investigations Liaison (CIL) positions. These roles, based in Ottawa, Canada; London, England; The Hague, Netherlands; and Sydney, Australia, will enhance global law enforcement collaborations to tackle complex transnational...Read More
JAKARTA The UK government will issue warnings to all companies in the country to make cybersecurity an “absolute priority”. This is done, following a series of cyberattacks against several well-known retailers such as Marks & Spencer (M&S), Co-op Group, and Harrods. British Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden, on Friday 2 April chaired a briefing with...Read More
A new arms race is unfolding in cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence is at its core. Attackers are using AI to supercharge deception, making fraud more convincing, more scalable, and harder to detect. The numbers are staggering: 87% of global organizations faced an AI-powered cyberattack in the past year, according to SoSafe’s Cybercrime Trends 2025 report....Read More
Police officers, prosecutors, and judges participate in a UNODC training in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, aimed at strengthening the response to cybercrime in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, August 22, 2024. (Photo by Laura Gil/UNODC 2024) Once considered petty crime, cybercrime has evolved into a giant, automated, and illicit business almost as profitable as the narcotics...Read More
