HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s electric utility says personal information belonging to some customers was taken during a recent cybersecurity breach. In a statement, Nova Scotia Power says the theft occurred last Friday when the privately owned company detected unusual activity on its network. At the time, the utility said there was unauthorized access into certain...Read More
A Ukrainian national has been extradited from Spain to the United States to face charges over allegedly conducting Nefilim ransomware attacks against companies. The suspect, Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak, 35, was arrested in Spain in June 2024 and extradited to the U.S. on April 30, 2025. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Stryzhak allegedly participated...Read More
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A UKRAINIAN NATIONAL HAS BEEN EXTRADITED FROM SPAIN and was scheduled to be arraigned at federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon, May 1. A superseding indictment was unsealed charging the defendant, Artem Stryzhak, with conspiracy to commit fraud, extortion and related acts in connection with computers, and for his role in...Read More
Two alleged leaders of the child sextortion group 764 were arrested and charged for directing and distributing child sexual abuse material, the Department of Justice said Thursday. Leonidas Varagiannis, 21, and Prasan Nepal, 20, face charges that carry a maximum penalty of life in prison. Varagiannis, also known as “War,” and Nepal, also known as...Read More
It’s more bad news from Ascension Health which is informing some of its patients, potentially for the second time in the space of a year, that their medical data was compromised during a major cyberattack. The private medical services provider said one of its former business partners, with which the company shared some patient medical...Read More
( May 1, 2025, 17:45 GMT | Official Statement) — MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice announced a superseding indictment accusing Artem Stryzhak of conspiring to commit fraud and related activity, including extortion, in connection with computers, for his role in a series of international attacks using the Nefilim ransomware. Stryzhak, a Ukrainian citizen,...Read More
Hyderabad: The cyber crime police have registered a criminal case against a social media user for posting offensive content targeting Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy.On Tuesday, Kailash Sajjan, state secretary of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee’s (TPCC) social media department, lodged a complaint with the Hyderabad cyber crime police against a social media account...Read More
Conventional thinking about AI and automation is that they require a great deal of upfront training and human input to be successful. This is undoubtedly true, especially when it comes to genAI and large language models (LLMs). The more knowledge and thoughtfulness humans take in training an AI model in the early stages, the more...Read More
Hitachi Vantara has suffered a ransomware attack and service outage, taking its main datacenter offline. A cybersecurity incident update statement says: “On April 26, 2025, Hitachi Vantara experienced a ransomware incident that has resulted in a disruption to some of our systems” and to Hitachi Vantara Manufacturing. The company took its servers offline in order...Read More
