By Faraz Khan During my international Fellowship on cybersecurity education, one lesson became increasingly clear: some of the most important cybersecurity decisions are made by people who do not work in cybersecurity. A health worker handles patient information. A community-services employee manages digital case records. A hospitality worker processes customer data. A manufacturing employee uses...Read More
AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) – Auburn University’s McCrary Institute is partnering with cities and organizations across Alabama to prevent ransomware and cybersecurity attacks, which the institute says average nearly four weeks of shutdown time per incident. The Alabama Cybersecurity Intelligence Center, housed at the Auburn Research Park, is part of a $19 million, five-year federal investment...Read More
U.S. prosecutors have charged three Russian nationals and two web hosts with hacking, conspiracy, and money laundering over their alleged roles in hosting cyberattacks that caused tens of millions of dollars in damages to U.S. businesses. The three Russians, Alexander Volosovik, Kirill Zatolokin, and Yulia Pankova, who reside in St. Petersburg, are accused of owning...Read More
Photo Credit: 404 Media A new hack sheds some light on how Suno pulled from streaming services and websites like YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius to train its product. As Suno brawls with the majors over copyright infringement, a hacker who breached the company’s data shared information with 404 Media about Suno’s training libraries. The...Read More
The government has revised its guidelines for artificial intelligence-related policies, calling for constantly strengthening measures against cyberattacks in light of serious risks posed by cutting-edge AI models. The original AI policy guidelines were compiled only last December. The revision comes amid rapid technological innovation, including the launch of U.S. startup Anthropic’s Claude Mythos. The revised...Read More
FLORIDA – The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center said that Florida residents are among those being targeted by a phishing-as-a-service platform called Kali365 that is aimed at users of Microsoft 365 products. According to the IC3’s 2025 Internet Crime Report, Floridians reported more than $12 million in losses to phishing — a sharp rise from...Read More
This year’s data has a few eyebrow-raising departures from the patterns of past State of Ransomware reports. Exploited vulnerabilities lost their three-year grip on the top root-cause spot. Median ransom demands and payments both dropped, yet the average recovery bill still climbed. And small organizations (100-250 employees) are falling further behind their larger peers on...Read More
Microsoft cannot seem to avoid stepping on rake after rake, seemingly speedrunning its way into becoming the most hated video game company of the last five years. This time, instead of laying off thousands of developers or leaving storied studios twisting in uncertain winds, it deleted a 25-year-old account belong to Joshua Khane. As first...Read More
Project Glasswing is a controlled-access cybersecurity programme run by Anthropic. It gives approved organisations access to Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier AI model designed for advanced defensive security work, including scanning codebases, identifying zero-day vulnerabilities, and in some cases writing patches. The programme is not a product. Organisations cannot buy access. Instead, each participant must...Read More
In 2025, India lost a whopping ₹22,495 crore to cybercrimes, saw 28.15 lakh reported cases, a 24 per cent surge in complaints over 2024, a year which witnessed an over 200 per cent year-on-year to ₹22,845 crore. Can a nation haemorrhage over ₹22,000 crore a year from its digital economy and still credibly aspire to...Read More
