ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Thursday urged Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members to enhance cooperation to tackle regional security challenges such as “terrorism,” cybercrime and drugs trafficking at a special meeting of the inter-governmental body in Bishkek. Naqvi was addressing a special meeting of the Ministers of Interior and Public Security of the...Read More
WASHINGTON — Senate health honcho Bill Cassidy is demanding Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team explain the hack into the NYC Health + Hospitals system in which cyber intruders lurked for over three months without detection. Cassidy (R-La.), who helms the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised concerns about the data breach that exposed...Read More
The Good | Fraud Networks Disrupted, Crypto Exchanges Sanctioned & Doxer Arrested This week, the DoJ’s Scam Center Strike Force unveiled results from “Disruption Week,” a first-of-its-kind joint initiative between U.S. agencies and private industry targeting cyber-enabled cryptocurrency investment fraud. Federal investigators from the FBI, Secret Service, and HSI shared threat intelligence with major technology...Read More
05 Jun Virginia Is For Cyber Posted at 09:18h in Blogs by Taylor Fox This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 5, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Virginia is home to the second largest cybersecurity industry in the country, with around 88,000 cybersecurity workers, according to Cyberseek,...Read More
The US National Security Agency is reportedly using Anthropic’s cutting-edge Mythos AI model for hacking. Mythos has not been publicly released because of its powerful abilities to detect and exploit software vulnerabilities, and instead is being offered to select institutions to help them build defenses. The NSA is apparently using it for offensive purposes even...Read More
Another week in information security means another week where AI is in the headlines, either because someone’s used it to bypass a platform’s security, or because hackers are using AI to supercharge their attacks and target more people. In the first case, we reported that hackers used Meta’s AI chatbot to gain access to high-profile...Read More
Scam compounds across Southeast Asia are no longer just running mass-message fraud. They are using artificial intelligence and automation to make cybercrime faster, more convincing, and harder for APAC security teams to contain. For organizations operating in the region, the risk now extends beyond fake messages and obvious phishing attempts. AI-assisted scams can be localized,...Read More
A new ransomware strain called VECT 2.0 is raising serious concerns among security professionals, and for a troubling reason — even if a victim pays the ransom, the attacker’s own decryptor may not fully restore their files. This is not a typical failure tied to weak defenses or victim error. The damage, in many cases,...Read More
Background Akira is one of the most consequential ransomware groups operating globally, and the most prolific by total ransom proceeds in 2025. Active since April 2023, the group operates as a closed RaaS enterprise using double extortion — combining encryption with the threat to publicly release stolen data — to pressure victims into payment. Akira...Read More
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in Everest Forms Pro, a WordPress plugin with about 4,000 active installations, to execute arbitrary code, leading to a complete site compromise. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3300 (CVSS score: 9.8), a remote code execution bug impacting all versions of the plugin up to, and including,...Read More
