Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing campaign codenamed FakeGit. “FakeGit uses copied projects, lookalike developer profiles, convincing READMEs, and malicious ZIP...Read More

  By Funmilola Gboteku Stakeholders in Nigeria’s criminal justice system have called for stronger digital evidence management, inter-agency collaboration and continuous capacity building to help the country stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. They made the call during a specialised training on Cybercrime, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Evidence for members of the Joint Case...Read More

ATLANTA (Atlanta News First/Gray News) — Fairlife has stopped producing milk in the United States after it was hit by a ransomware attack, Coca-Cola announced Thursday. Fairlife identified “unauthorized access by a third party to a portion of its systems, including its production-related systems, in connection with a ransomware event.” The company notified law enforcement...Read More

No doubt about it, Britain is feeling the pinch. Rent is high, food prices are climbing, and volatile petrol prices make filling a traditional tank a painful experience. Little wonder, then, that this cost-of-living crisis has bred the “grid hacker”, a new generation of street-wise electric vehicle (EV) drivers turning their cars into serious money-saving...Read More

Hugging Face, whose platform hosts AI datasets, has reportedly suffered an AI-powered data breach. As TechCrunch reported Monday (July 20), the company revealed the breach last week but said it was still determining if any customer or partner data had been stolen. On its blog, Hugging Face said a dataset uploaded to its platform exploited a security vulnerability...Read More

A ransomware attack has temporarily shut down U.S. production at Fairlife, the dairy company owned by The Coca-Cola Co., disrupting operations for one of the fastest-growing milk brands in the country. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Fairlife identified unauthorized access to part of its computer systems, including production-related systems,...Read More

Dear Ashana, The Supreme Court has clarified that banks are considered “service providers” under the Cybercrime Prevention Act. As such, depositors may be treated as “subscribers,” and their subscriber information may be subject to a valid Cyber Warrant for Disclosure of Computer Data. In the recently decided case of Eastwest Rural Bank vs PNP Cybercrime...Read More

Hackers breached a major healthcare industry software supplier and stole a large trove of files, the company announced on Monday. The British software firm Craneware, which makes software that helps companies track their financial performance and manage governance requirements, published a regulatory filing about “a cyber security incident involving unauthorised access to a subset of...Read More

The U.S. government may be back on track to ban leading Chinese AI models, following the release of Kimi K3 — a powerful AI model developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot AI —last week. According to an Axios report released July 20, Trump’s administration is reigniting its push for a ban, citing cybersecurity concerns. Chinese...Read More

With the rapid expansion of information technology, cybercrime is on the rise. In this internet age, young entrepreneur Nazmul Haque Sojib has been working through personal initiatives to ensure digital security for the general public.  Alongside his professional IT services, his efforts to raise cyber awareness have gained significant attention at the local level. Nazmul...Read More