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 threats. For insurers,...Read More
A national security failure that can no longer be ignored
The increasing arrests of foreign nationals linked to cybercrime operations in Sri Lanka should no longer be treated as isolated criminal incidents. It has become a dangerous and deeply organised pattern. Almost weekly, reports emerge of...Read More
A ransomware group called The Gentlemen has been quietly building one of the most aggressive cybercriminal operations seen in recent years. Emerging publicly in the second half of 2025, the group rapidly scaled its activity to become one of the top two most active ransomware threats globally by early 2026. What makes this group stand...Read More
Gong and other scholars have been issuing warnings about the security vulnerabilities of AI agents for a while. They publish papers and blog posts detailing exploits such as indirect prompt injection, which involves hijacking agents using commands hidden in websites, emails, or other seemingly anodyne data sources. Compared with these techniques, the Meta hack was...Read More
The Department of the Air Force has appointed Ashley Devoto as CIO Devoto will oversee enterprise IT, data and AI, and cybersecurity portfolios The 2026 Air and Space Summit will explore AI and machine learning, commercial space relay and more The Department of the Air Force has appointed Ashley Devoto, a technology and cybersecurity leader,...Read More
If they don’t get you online, they’ll try in person. A data-theft and extortion gang has targeted “dozens” of banks, law firms, and other professional services companies in the US from January through May, using fake help desk calls and other social-engineering techniques to gain access to corporate IT environments, according to Google’s Mandiant incident...Read More
Hackers are already preparing for the midterm elections this fall, with heightened cyber threats building throughout the political spectrum, according to a new report. Check Point, a cybersecurity firm, found in the June 1 report that the midterm cycle “is expected to drive elevated cyber threat activity across the broader election ecosystem, including political organizations,...Read More
Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) is expanding career pathway opportunities for high school students with the launch of the Computing and Cybersecurity Academy. The new program will be in the NICC Dubuque Center with a schedule designed to fit the needs of high school juniors and seniors starting in August. Students participating in the academy can earn up to 11 college credits at...Read More
Layla, a woman in her 70s, was initially hesitant to reveal her bank details to a caller pretending to be a bank official and requesting an update of her ATM debit card. She surrendered when the scammer insisted her ATM visa card would stop working if she declined to cooperate. Strangely enough, the scammer...Read More
VECT 2.0 ransomware can leave victims with files that even the attacker’s own decryptor cannot reliably restore. While researchers previously exposed a cross-platform design flaw that discards nonces for earlier parts of large files, our Windows-focused analysis shows additional implementation errors that create more recovery gaps. These errors can leave files renamed, partially encrypted, inconsistently...Read More
