Cybersecurity Readiness Remains Flat as AI Transforms the Industry The Index evaluates companies’ readiness across five pillars—Identity Intelligence, Network Resilience, Machine Trustworthiness, Cloud Reinforcement, and AI Fortification— and encompasses 31 solutions and capabilities. Based on a double-blind survey of 8,000 private sector security and business leaders in 30 global markets, respondents detailed their deployment stages...Read More
Image courtesy of crypto.news A group claiming to be from Prague has hacked LockBit’s dark web panel, leaking sensitive data including its internal systems and Bitcoin wallets. LockBit, a notorious ransomware gang, had their internal data package compromised, which included over 60,000 Bitcoin BTC addresses, approximately 75 user credentials, and ransom negotiation logs. Analysts at...Read More
Online education software provider PowerSchool on May 7 said the threat actors they paid a ransom to following a December 2024 cyberattack have reached out to multiple school district customers in apparent attempts to extort them in exchange for restoring stolen data.The original hack in late December reportedly exposed the sensitive personal data of more...Read More
stock.adobe.com/LisLud The UN’s 193 Member States adopted a historic, legally binding agreement on cybercrime on 24 December 2024, capping five years of negotiations. Here are five key points on why the Convention matters for the world. 1. A new tool for a growing threat Some 67.4 per cent of the world’s population accessed the...Read More
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The National Association of State Chief Information Officers on Wednesday published a report proposing a solution to the nation’s persistent shortage of cybersecurity workers: Create more programs that train prisoners and former prisoners for those jobs. One analysis tallies more than 450,000 open cybersecurity jobs in the United States, but counts enough workers to fill...Read More
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Exposes Details of Victims, ‘Aggressive’ Negotiations, Cryptocurrency Addresses Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 8, 2025 LockBit data leak sites displayed this message on May 8, 2025. One year to the day after an international law enforcement operation unmasked and indicted the leader of the notorious LockBit...Read More
The cyber world is constantly evolving, and criminal groups in Latin America are adapting their modus operandi to make the most of it. Technological innovations brought about by the Internet era have influenced various criminal economies, from drug trafficking to money laundering. In Mexico, producers of synthetic drugs, such as fentanyl and methamphetamine, use the...Read More
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed what they say is an “industrial-scale, global cryptocurrency phishing operation” engineered to steal digital assets from cryptocurrency wallets for several years. The campaign has been codenamed FreeDrain by threat intelligence firms SentinelOne and Validin. “FreeDrain uses SEO manipulation, free-tier web services (like gitbook.io, webflow.io, and github.io), and layered redirection techniques to...Read More
LockBit’s dark web domains were hacked, exposing internal data, affiliate tools, and over 60,000 Bitcoin wallets in a major blow to the ransomware group. The ransomware group LockBit has suffered a serious blow after its dark web domain and infrastructure was hijacked and defaced by an unknown attacker. The breach, which surfaced on May 7,...Read More
