An Alabama man who SIM-swapped his way into the SEC’s official X account, enabling a fake ETF announcement that briefly pumped Bitcoin, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Prior to his conviction and sentencing on Friday, Eric Council Jr., 26, of Huntsville, Alabama, proved once again that...Read More
ABILENE, Texas — According to an article by Comparitech, a Russian-based ransomware group, Qilin, claims to have stolen 477 GB of data from the City of Abilene, with a demanded ransom that has to be paid by May 27. On April 18, the city was impacted by a cyberattack that caused multiple departments, including the...Read More
Union home minister Amit Shah (Image credits: ANI) NEW DELHI: The ministry of home affairs on Monday launched the e-Zero initiative to auto-register high-value cybercrimes. The service will automatically convert cyber financial crimes above Rs 10 lakh and registered on the 1930 helpline of the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP), into FIRs, news agency ANI...Read More
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Let’s face it: Australia is seen as a soft target for cybercriminals. Its fragmented cybercrime response makes both individuals and institutions more vulnerable. Australia’s cybercrime framework must be informed by diverse perspectives, and it must focus on victims as much as on perpetrators. This means dismantling outdated binaries between ‘technical’ and ‘non-technical’, challenging the militaristic...Read More
Our goal at eToro is to provide you with a secure online space where you can feel safe to invest, transact, and connect with our community. Recently, there have been media reports of increased attempts to target financial institutions. These events have involved malicious actors contacting users – or other parties with access to privileged...Read More
LAS VEGAS, May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Superna, the leader in unified data-layer security, today announced the launch of Superna Data Security Essentials for Dell PowerStore — a powerful new offering that brings real-time ransomware protection, automated incident response, and compliance-grade auditing to all file data on PowerStore, including workloads running on Windows servers. As...Read More
Coalition’s 2025 Cyber Claims Report, which offers information on emerging cyber trends and data on Coalition policyholders, found that ransomware claims stabilized in 2024. Ransom demands, the most costly and disruptive cyber incidents, according to Coalition, dropped 22% to an average of $1.1 million, and 44% of policyholders victim to a ransomware attack paid the...Read More
Christopher High senior Austin Abero is pictured May 13 with his winning creation for the DAs 2025 “Justice For All” youth poster contest. Photo: Michael Moore The top three winners of this year’s countywide “Justice for All” high school poster contest—in which young artists and designers were asked to help raise awareness of the growing...Read More
A February call from a European IT services provider that experienced a ransomware attack led researchers at WithSecure to what security pros are calling a “textbook identity attack.”Threat actors lured victims to a malicious look-alike KeePass download site advertised on Bing while the attackers waited for victims who believed it was the legitimate open-source password...Read More
