[ad_1] Halfway through 2025, Karnataka recorded 7,293 cybercrime cases, at least 2,000 fewer than during the same period in 2024 and the year before, according to State Crime Records reviewed by The Hindu. For the past two years, the State had logged no fewer than 9,000 cases by June-end, with the figure climbing to about...Read More

[ad_1] 18 Aug The $10.5 Trillion Shadow Economy and the Cybersecurity Gold Rush Posted at 08:38h in Blogs by Taylor Fox This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 18, 2025 – Read the full story in AInvest According to Cybersecurity Ventures, by 2025, global cybercrime damages are projected to...Read More

[ad_1] UK telecoms firm Colt Technology Services has been hit by a cyber attack that’s been claimed by the Warlock ransomware gang. The incident first unfolded on Tuesday 12th August, when the company detected issues on an internal system. In a blog post confirming the cyber attack, the company said the affected system is separate...Read More

[ad_1] SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Yonhap) — A money lending unit under Welcome Financial Group has recently been hit by a ransomware attack in the latest in a series of cyberattacks against South Korean companies, officials said Monday. Welrix I&F is currently checking for possible leaks of customer data after detecting the cyberattack early this month....Read More

[ad_1] A cyber criminal who hacked into the websites of organisations in North America, Yemen and Israel and stole the log in details of millions of people has been jailed. Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky, 26, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was arrested by specialist National Crime Agency cybercrime officers in August 2022, who were acting on intelligence supplied...Read More

[ad_1] “Colt are being extorted by Warlock ransomware group, they have been for over a week, Colt are trying to cover it up,” Beaumont wrote on Mastodon on Friday, Aug 15. “Entry likely via sharehelp.colt.net via CVE-2025-53770 as they were interacting with it.” Beaumont added that the group has stolen a few hundred gigabytes of...Read More

[ad_1] A 27-year-old construction labourer struggling with alcoholism who was hooked to online rummy. A 32-year-old son of an armed forces veteran, who was dabbling in cryptocurrency trades. A 21-year-old ice-cream factory worker desperately hunting for an online job. These three unrelated men had something in common — they all ended up as cyber mules,...Read More

[ad_1] “Firing the CISO might seem like a necessary reset for CIOs or boards, but it’s not always a strategic move. If the incident response plan was followed, the detection tools worked, and recovery was within SLAs, then replacing the CISO often sends the wrong message internally,” Avakian maintains. “It shows that the security role...Read More

[ad_1] The incident, which occurred in April 2025 at a small hydropower facility, is seen as primarily symbolic. Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) stated on August 13, 2025, that it suspected pro-Russian cybercriminals of sabotaging a dam in the country’s southwest. This marks the first time a state authority has publicly linked the incident...Read More

[ad_1] August 18, 2025 News Background of the Incident A 38-year-old Israeli official, T. A. A., recently found himself embroiled in a significant legal controversy during a visit to the United States. The visit was intended for him to attend the prestigious Black Hat USA cybersecurity conference held from August 2 to 7 at the...Read More