As digital threats grow in sophistication, the cybersecurity sector has ignited a funding frenzy, with startups raising $1.7 billion in April 2025 alone ahead of the RSA Conference in San Francisco. This influx underscores investor confidence in technologies poised to redefine global digital defense, from AI-driven threat detection to zero-trust architectures and software supply chain safeguards. The...Read More

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Kolkata: In a joint operation on Wednesday, Bengaluru Police, along with Kolkata East Division Police, arrested four inter-state cyber criminalshiding in an Anandapur apartment. The suspects were involved in multiple cyber crimes, including ATM fraud and digital arrest scam, across Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The accused fled from Bengaluru cops and arrived in the city...Read More

Nucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the US, shut down production operations after discovering its servers had been penetrated. In a Tuesday 8-K filing to America’s Securities and Exchange Commission, the metals magnate said some of its facilities had been shut down while an unnamed third-party security company investigates an attack against “certain information technology...Read More

NEW YORK CITY — A New Jersey-based scammer was just sentenced to two to six years in prison for running an identity theft ring that fraudulently obtained more than $400,000 and attempted to steal an additional $992,000 from Manhattanites, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told Patch. Unfortunately, the type of scam that defendant Miokar Wehye...Read More

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study led by researchers from Michigan State University, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University reveals that ransomware attacks—which involve a hacker putting encryption controls into a file and then demanding a ransom to unlock the files—have become the primary driver of health care data breaches in the United States,...Read More

Hackers behind a series of destructive, financially motivated cyberattacks against some of the U.K.’s largest retailers are now going after big American brands, Google said Wednesday. “Major American retailers have already been targeted,” John Hultquist, the chief analyst for Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, told NBC News. At least three top British retailers have experienced cyberattacks...Read More

CompTIA announced today it will begin development of a new certification focused on critical cybersecurity skills in operational technology (OT). CompTIA’s proposed SecOT+ certification will bridge critical knowledge and skill gaps between OT and IT. The certification will equip OT positions, such as floor technicians and industrial engineers, and cybersecurity engineers and network architects on...Read More

LockBit ransomware hackers have been hacked. getty Scammers who prey on the fears of individuals are high on my list of “most hated” cybercriminals, if I’m being honest, but they are not number one. That honour belongs to the organized ransomware gangs that have absolutely no qualms about attacking hospitals and blood banks, literally putting...Read More

The SAP NetWeaver vulnerability case took an interesting turn Wednesday when the Russian ransomware group BianLian and the operators of RansomEXX were tied to exploitations of the NetWeaver bug.The news of the exploitation by Russian ransomware gangs was in contrast to recent reports by Forescout Vedere Labs that China-based threat groups were involved in the...Read More