Aubrey Cottle, a Canadian hacker known online as “Kirtaner,” faces as much as two and a half years in prison in Ontario — and perhaps more time in the U.S. — for a cyberattack on the Republican Party of Texas. Cottle, 39, who has long claimed affiliation with the hacktivist group “Anonymous,” pleaded guilty on...Read More
When Donald Trump returned to the White House 18 months ago, his second administration made it clear that it would take a hands-off approach to artificial intelligence and allow tech companies to develop these technologies with minimal government interference. To go along with this light-touch approach to AI development, Trump issued an order that rescinded...Read More
Cybercrime is a global challenge that demands a global response. Threat actors operate across borders, infrastructure, and jurisdictions, requiring defenders to work together with equal speed, visibility, and determination. That is why I am pleased to announce that Proofpoint has officially been accepted as a member of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) Advisory Group on...Read More
INC has matured from an emerging RaaS operation into one of 2026’s most active ransomware families, claiming more than 800 victims since 2023 and capitalizing on disruption among competitors to expand its affiliate base. The group’s recent campaigns demonstrate both incremental tooling refinement and novel pressure tactics: double extortion of stolen data combined with automated...Read More
Ravie LakshmananJun 19, 2026Threat Intelligence / Firewall Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices. The sweeping campaign, believed to be the work of Russian-speaking threat actors, has been codenamed FortiBleed....Read More
The RCMP says it has helped international law enforcement partners disrupt a malware network linked to a Russian cybercriminal group. The action was part of Operation Endgame, a global cybercrime operation involving police agencies from Canada, the Netherlands, the United States and Germany. The RCMP is Canada’s national representative on Operation Endgame, while the Federal...Read More
United Personnel Data Breach?: Lawsuit Investigation Attorneys working with ClassAction.org are looking into whether a class action lawsuit can be filed in light of reports of a possible United Personnel data breach. As part of their investigation, they need to hear from individuals who believe their information may have been put at risk, including current and former...Read More
Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Gravity SMTP, active on 100,000 sites. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-4020 and received a medium severity rating. It affects all versions of the plugin from 2.1.4 and older and has been addressed in version 2.1.5, released on March 17. WordPress security...Read More
AUSTIN, Texas, June 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cybersecurity has become a sector that is experiencing a paradigm shift, and marketing is at the very core of this change. The rapid pace of digitization and increasing threats have transformed this once obscure field from being an internal business concern to being one of the most...Read More
New Delhi: Delhi Police, in the fifth edition of Operation CyHawk, has arrested 916 people and taken legal action against 4,290 people.The 48-hour nationwide operation ran from 8 am on June 16 and to 8 am on June 18. All 15 district police units, along with the intelligence fusion and strategic operations (IFSO) unit and...Read More
