A UK court on Thursday jailed two young men for a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport operator that exposed the details of millions of customers, in one of Britain’s biggest data breaches. Thalha Jubair, 20, from east London, and 18-year-old Owen Flowers from England’s West Midlands were each handed five-and-a-half-year sentences at London’s Woolwich Crown...Read More
New service extends continuous cyber and privacy protection beyond the corporate perimeter to cover senior executives’ personal devices, home networks, digital footprints and families ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Crisis24, a global, AI-enhanced leader in integrated risk management, intelligence-led security and medical operations, personal protection, medical concierge and crisis consulting, today announced the...Read More
Two leading members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective have been sentenced to more than five years in prison for carrying out the 2024 cyberattack against Transport for London (TfL), concluding what British authorities described as the largest cybercrime prosecution ever brought before a U.K. court. Thalha Jubair, 20, of East London, and Owen Flowers,...Read More
Unsplash Federal prosecutors on Monday unsealed a grand jury indictment charging three Russian nationals and their two St. Petersburg-based companies with running the bulletproof hosting infrastructure that prosecutors allege powered ransomware attacks by LockBit, Cl0p, BlackSuit, Play, and at least 13 other criminal groups — a decade-long operation that caused more than $62 million in...Read More
Nearly 30 years after being caught by the FBI, “The Analyzer” is back in the headlines. An international network suspected of running large-scale investment scams across Europe for years has been dismantled in recent weeks, with 46-year-old Israeli national Ehud Tenenbaum at the center of the investigation. Tenenbaum became a household name in the late...Read More
ZURICH, July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ontinue, a leading MXDR partner providing nonstop managed security operations through its Agentic SOC, today announced it has been named winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Employer of the Year – Cybersecurity category in the 11th annual Stevie Awards for Great Employers. The award recognizes Ontinue’s commitment...Read More
Executive Summary Spanish National Police, in collaboration with Interpol and Europol, have dismantled a sophisticated cybercrime and money-laundering organization responsible for defrauding victims of approximately €140 million ($160 million) through investment fraud, business email compromise (BEC), CEO fraud, and man-in-the-middle attacks. The operation resulted in the arrest of four individuals across Spain, Portugal, and Panama,...Read More
World Leaks claims it stole confidential data linked to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant after breaching Reliance Group’s internal network, a contractor for the project. Recently, Reuters reported that the World Leaks hacker group had released a large cache of files on the dark web that it claimed were connected to the Kudankulam Nuclear...Read More
Two men who carried out a cyber-attack which crippled Transport For London (TfL) when they were teenagers have both been sentenced to five years and six months in prison. Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, and Thalha Jubair, 20, from east London, pleaded guilty in June to carrying out the hack in 2024. They were described...Read More
017 provides expert cyber non-binding guidance through phone, messaging, online and in person services. Spain’s National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE) has highlighted its free and confidential 017 helpline, which provides specialist advice on digital security issues for citizens, businesses, professionals and educational institutions. The helpline provides guidance on scams, phishing, identity theft, compromised accounts, social media...Read More
