Cybercriminals behind large-scale illegal streaming operations are facing growing police pressure after a coordinated international investigation led to dozens of arrests across multiple countries. Authorities arrested 29 suspects in a major operation targeting criminal networks that profited from unauthorized streaming services, Europol announced. The investigation focused on organized groups that distributed copyrighted television channels, sports...Read More
by John Glidden | glid24@protonmail.com | June 5, 2026 VALLEJO – The city of Vallejo confirmed on Friday that “a malicious hacking incident” occurred this week when unauthorized individuals were able to send an email via the city’s email management platform, Constant Contact. The fraudulent email, titled “something awaits,” was sent at about 4 p.m. on...Read More
Mountain Rides, the Wood River Valley’s public transportation agency, has resolved an issue caused by a malicious pop-up box that showed up on its website this week and threatened website visitors with a computer virus. Mountain Rides spokeswoman Andrea Hernandez told the Express in a Friday phone call that she spotted the issue Wednesday morning....Read More
Today on CISO Series… In today’s cybersecurity news… Chinese cybercrime group sets record pace According to Proofpoint , the group, currently tracked as TA4922, “has been escalating activities and expanding to new geographies. It uses social engineering to deliver malware and engage in credential phishing and fraud schemes such as credit card theft.” They do...Read More
The seven new failure modes it has identified are: Agentic Supply Chain Compromise —agent behavior can be affected by natural language rather than malicious code; Goal Hijacking — adversarial instructions appear aligned with legitimate task completion, while silently redirecting the agent’s terminal goal; Inter-Agent Trust Escalation —a compromised agent asserts false identity or inflates claimed...Read More
Insurance companies should treat recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), privacy, and cybersecurity regulation as more than just policy signals. Regulators are moving toward examination-ready expectations for insurers’ use of AI and automated decision-making technology, while cybersecurity regulators are warning that frontier AI may materially increase the speed and scale of cyber threats. For insurers,...Read More
A national security failure that can no longer be ignored
The increasing arrests of foreign nationals linked to cybercrime operations in Sri Lanka should no longer be treated as isolated criminal incidents. It has become a dangerous and deeply organised pattern. Almost weekly, reports emerge of...Read More
A ransomware group called The Gentlemen has been quietly building one of the most aggressive cybercriminal operations seen in recent years. Emerging publicly in the second half of 2025, the group rapidly scaled its activity to become one of the top two most active ransomware threats globally by early 2026. What makes this group stand...Read More
Gong and other scholars have been issuing warnings about the security vulnerabilities of AI agents for a while. They publish papers and blog posts detailing exploits such as indirect prompt injection, which involves hijacking agents using commands hidden in websites, emails, or other seemingly anodyne data sources. Compared with these techniques, the Meta hack was...Read More
The Department of the Air Force has appointed Ashley Devoto as CIO Devoto will oversee enterprise IT, data and AI, and cybersecurity portfolios The 2026 Air and Space Summit will explore AI and machine learning, commercial space relay and more The Department of the Air Force has appointed Ashley Devoto, a technology and cybersecurity leader,...Read More
