The advisory arrived from CISA on August 12, 2026, and it read like most of the ones before it: patch known exploited vulnerabilities, keep offline immutable backups, and segment the network so a single infected laptop can’t become a company-wide outage. That last instruction is the one most organizations still skip. The NIST Zero Trust...Read More
WINONA, Minn. (WXOW) — Winona County paid more than $128,000 to resolve a ransomware attack detected in January, and officials are now investigating a second, unrelated attack from April. The county detected ransomware on its computer network on Jan. 22. Officials took immediate action to investigate and engaged third-party forensic experts and federal law enforcement,...Read More
Australian Police arrested for alleged cybercrimes involvement. Photo: Unsplash Two men from Western Australia have been charged following a joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Western Australia Police Force (WAPF), conducted in parallel with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), into a sophisticated cybercrime syndicate that allegedly developed malicious open-source software...Read More
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Multiple US agencies and departments were breached by Chinese state-sponsored hackers The hackers use a massive botnet of compromised IoT devices to obscure the origin of their traffic The hackers breached computers belonging to NASA, the Federal Reserve,...Read More
NEW YORK – The advanced use of AI has created a generational shift in the balance between the ability to protect information and the risk of those systems being compromised, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks (PAN). The cybersecurity firm, which has conducted extensive research on the use of frontier AI, opened a window...Read More
There’s a new number in cybersecurity for CFOs to track, and it’s not the list of what was stolen. It’s the number of obligations created. Headlines this week offered a glimpse of what that new cyber math looks like. Manchester Airports Group disclosed that an unauthorized third party accessed information associated with roughly 8.7 million...Read More
Executive Summary BLUF: Europe’s principal cyber risk is no longer data theft alone, but the interruption or corruption of services that confer legal, economic and operational certainty. The Romanian ANCPI incident demonstrates how ransomware against a single administrative platform can obstruct property transactions, mortgage processing and public-service delivery. Official evidence does not support claims that...Read More
Ransomware group Qilin lists Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) among new victims, claiming a “major incident” ATF confirmed breach of a standalone system holding investigation target data, not core networks Systems were disconnected, DOJ notified; Qilin is Russia‑linked, known for past Synnovis attack The US Government’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...Read More
Court disposals rose from 42 cases in 2022 to 94 in 2023 and 158 in 2024, but remained substantially lower than annual registrations and police disposal figures. Between 2022 and 2024, Gujarat registered 5,004 cybercrime cases, while police disposed of 4,586 cases and courts disposed of 294. These aggregate figures cannot be treated as outcomes...Read More
US cybersecurity company Resecurity has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ecuador’s National Cybercrime Unit, known as CiberPOL, to strengthen cooperation on the detection, investigation, and prosecution of cybercrime. The agreement establishes a framework for the two organizations to exchange cyber threat intelligence, provide technical assistance, and collaborate on cybersecurity technologies and training. The memorandum...Read More
