A Saskatoon man named Ryan Roach may be extradited to the United States (U.S.) to face hacking charges stemming from a 2017 cyberattack after a Saskatchewan King’s Bench judge committed him for extradition on May 7, 2026. U.S. authorities allege that Roach and an Ontario accomplice breached three educational networks, installed malware such as rootkits...Read More
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Teachers from across Georgia and South Carolina spent the week at the Georgia Cyber Center learning new ways to teach cybersecurity, computer science and information technology. The professional development workshop brought classroom educators together with industry partners to make sure what students learn matches what employers need. Organizers said the workshop...Read More
Head of EFCC Sports, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, Halilu Dauda Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has identified sports as a powerful tool for engaging young people and steering them away from internet fraud, criminal activities and other social vices. Olukoyede made the assertion during a courtesy visit...Read More
In brief Anthropic has reportedly embedded roughly half a dozen engineers at the NSA to deploy its Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations—potentially including attacks on networks in China and Iran. Anthropic also warned that AI is approaching recursive self-improvement and called for a coordinated global pause mechanism. Both landed as Anthropic files for...Read More
[co-author: Elyssa Eisenberg]* Insurance companies should treat recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), privacy, and cybersecurity regulation as more than just policy signals. Regulators are moving toward examination-ready expectations for insurers’ use of AI and automated decision-making technology, while cybersecurity regulators are warning that frontier AI may materially increase the speed and scale of cyber...Read More
Cybercriminals behind large-scale illegal streaming operations are facing growing police pressure after a coordinated international investigation led to dozens of arrests across multiple countries. Authorities arrested 29 suspects in a major operation targeting criminal networks that profited from unauthorized streaming services, Europol announced. The investigation focused on organized groups that distributed copyrighted television channels, sports...Read More
by John Glidden | glid24@protonmail.com | June 5, 2026 VALLEJO – The city of Vallejo confirmed on Friday that “a malicious hacking incident” occurred this week when unauthorized individuals were able to send an email via the city’s email management platform, Constant Contact. The fraudulent email, titled “something awaits,” was sent at about 4 p.m. on...Read More
Mountain Rides, the Wood River Valley’s public transportation agency, has resolved an issue caused by a malicious pop-up box that showed up on its website this week and threatened website visitors with a computer virus. Mountain Rides spokeswoman Andrea Hernandez told the Express in a Friday phone call that she spotted the issue Wednesday morning....Read More
Today on CISO Series… In today’s cybersecurity news… Chinese cybercrime group sets record pace According to Proofpoint , the group, currently tracked as TA4922, “has been escalating activities and expanding to new geographies. It uses social engineering to deliver malware and engage in credential phishing and fraud schemes such as credit card theft.” They do...Read More
The seven new failure modes it has identified are: Agentic Supply Chain Compromise —agent behavior can be affected by natural language rather than malicious code; Goal Hijacking — adversarial instructions appear aligned with legitimate task completion, while silently redirecting the agent’s terminal goal; Inter-Agent Trust Escalation —a compromised agent asserts false identity or inflates claimed...Read More
