A police line seals the door of the alleged scam hub in Barangay Kasambagan, Cebu City, with a show-cause order posted following a joint task force inspection. Photo: Daryll Galindo CEBU CITY, Philippines — A joint anti-cybercrime task force shut down the office of an alleged scam operation on Tuesday, May 20. The office was...Read More

Vulnerable Atlassian Confluence servers impacted by the template injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-22527, have been subjected to intrusions that facilitated the distribution of a Mimic ransomware variant within almost 62 hours in June, Cyber Security News reports.Initial exploitation of the security bug enabled arbitrary command execution, Metasploit payload deployment, AnyDesk installation, and command-and-control channel creation, according to The DFIR...Read More

An IIT-trained “ethical hacker” and his associate have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a cross-border cybercrime racket that duped investors by posing as stock market advisors. The duo collected funds through a complex web of fake companies and cryptocurrency channels. According to a report by The Times of India, the key accused, Girish...Read More

SALT LAKE CITY, May 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Legato Security, a premier U.S.-based Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), proudly announces its successful achievement of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2—a compliance standard required by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for organizations handling Controlled Unclassified Information.  This certification marks a critical milestone in Legato...Read More

The logistics company Peter Green Chilled has announced being hit by a ransomware attack that is disrupting supplies of refrigerated goods to some of the country’s largest supermarkets, according to reports. Customers — mostly smaller producers who provide food to regional supermarkets in Somerset, including Aldi, Tesco and Sainsbury’s — were sent an email last...Read More

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., May 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Arctic Wolf®, a global leader in security operations, today published findings from its State of Cybersecurity: 2025 Trends Report, offering insights from a global survey of more than 1,200 senior IT and cybersecurity decision-makers across 15 countries. Conducted by Sapio Research, the report captures the realities,...Read More

The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned one Solomon Stephen Ufayo, a staffer of Ecobank Plc, on a one-count charge of cybercrime to the tune of N2,404,000 (Two Million Four Hundred and Four Thousand Naira). The suspect was brought before Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High...Read More

A suspected initial access broker has been leveraging trojanized versions of the open-source KeePass password manager to set the stage for ransomware attacks, WithSecure researchers have discovered. KeeLoader: Passoword manager that acts as data stealer and malware loader In February 2025, WithSecure’s inicident responders were hired by an European IT service provider to help with...Read More

The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned one Solomon Stephen Ufayo, a staff of Ecobank Plc, on a one-count charge of cybercrime to the tune of N2,404,000 (Two Million Four Hundred and Four Thousand Naira). The suspect was brought before Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High...Read More

Latest in string of attacks on UK retail sector The UK retail sector has endured another cyberattack with logistics company Peter Green Chilled, which distributes perishable food supplies to major supermarkets, struck with ransomware last Wednesday. According to an email seen by the BBC, the attack forced the company to halt order processing on Thursday,...Read More