MILTON, Fla. — The City of Milton says its information was secured during a suspected cybersecurity attack in 2025. The city says it detected suspicious activity consistent with a ransomware attack on Dec. 26, 2025. Steps were immediately taken to secure its network. City council and the appropriate authorities were notified. To contain the incident,...Read More
Flowers and Jubair’s trial heard they were part of the cyber-crime collective, Scattered Spider. The loosely organised gang of young English-speaking cyber-criminals has been linked to dozens of other cyber-attacks including on retailers Marks and Spencer and the Co-op. But the BBC has learned Flowers initially came to the attention of police shortly after he...Read More
The White House has stepped directly into OpenAI’s product launch calendar. The Trump administration requested that OpenAI delay and stagger the release of its next AI model, GPT 5.6, citing cybersecurity risks that officials want time to evaluate before the technology reaches a broad audience. The request came on June 25, following an executive order...Read More
The cyber crimes wing of Cyberabad police arrested 15 persons in connection with seven cases in different States between June 18 and June 24. Officials said four trading fraud cases, two ‘digital arrest’ fraud cases and one job fraud case were solved during the period. The police facilitated refund orders worth ₹2.01 crore to victims...Read More
Two men have pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court for hacking into the computer systems of Transport for London and disrupting services that cost the transporter £29 million to fix. The two individuals, 20-year-old Thalha Jubair from London and 18-year-old Owen Flowers from Wiltshire, pleaded guilty just before a six-week trial into their cyber...Read More
Agentic AI , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Forrester’s Jitin Shabadu Says Visibility and Identity Must Top Security Priorities Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • June 25, 2026 Jitin Shabadu, analyst, Forrester Artificial intelligence innovation is reshaping enterprise cyber risk. To protect the enterprise, CISOs need to ensure better...Read More
security Spotted in intrusions targeting insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors A new self-destructing backdoor called Mistic used in intrusions since April appears to be linked to a criminal gang that compromises corporate networks and then sells that access to ransomware groups, according to security researchers. This backdoor, also tracked as MLTBackdoor, was first documented...Read More
Authorities in Poland have arrested four members of an organized cybercrime group accused of breaching telecommunications partners and hijacking email accounts to carry out SIM-swapping attacks. The operation was carried out by the Polish Cybercrime Bureau (CBZC) with support from the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in the United States. According to investigators, the suspects...Read More
Prediction market giant Polymarket confirmed that hackers stole funds from an unspecified number of users after a third-party breach. In an X post on Thursday, Polymarket said that a compromise at a third-party vendor allowed hackers to inject malicious code into its website “for some users.” The company said it has “contained” the incident and...Read More
RICHMOND, Va. — A unique summer program in Richmond is helping visually impaired students discover what is possible in the world of technology. Twenty-one students from across Virginia are participating in the 10th annual Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired’s Cyber Space Program. Students are building websites from scratch, learning cybersecurity fundamentals, and exploring...Read More
