Kubota North America Corporation disclosed that hackers had access to some of its network systems for more than a month earlier this year. Following an investigation into the incident, the company determined that between March 16 and April 20 the threat actor accessed files with personal information for employees and their dependents. Kubota is a...Read More
Student interns at two of the Maricopa Community Colleges are not watching more experienced cybersecurity professionals work at regional security operations centers on campus. They are diving in, identifying, determining the severity of and eliminating ransomware and other online threats through a partnership between the colleges and the Arizona Department of Homeland Security. Glendale Community...Read More
You can’t ask most models to help you make “ransomware” directly, but many will be more than willing if you give them the right prompt. DeepSeek and other LLMs with fewer safety and security controls make theoretical cyberthreats – like browser-only ransomware – much more likely to be used in real-world infections, according to Check...Read More
A 19-year-old man with dual U.S. and Estonian citizenship was extradited from Finland to Chicago this week to face criminal charges of participating in hacks as part of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group. Peter Stokes made an initial appearance on Tuesday in federal court in the Northern District of Illinois, the Department of Justice said....Read More
Swati KhandelwalJul 01, 2026Cybercrime / Ransomware A teenager accused of belonging to the hacking group Scattered Spider has been extradited from Finland to face U.S. charges of conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on July 1. Peter Stokes, 19, a dual U.S. and Estonian citizen, appeared in a Chicago federal court on...Read More
HILLSBORO, Ore., July 01, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced that its Lattice MachXO5™-NX TDQ FPGA family won a 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Award, hosted by The Hacker News, in the “Best Post-Quantum Cryptography” category. “We are honored to receive this recognition for the Lattice MachXO5-NX TDQ FPGA family’s cybersecurity...Read More
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Since early 2026, Arctic Wolf has investigated multiple breaches carried out using the Anubis ransomware. The attackers combined stolen VPN credentials and exploitation of CitrixBleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) with the misuse of legitimate RMM tools. This allowed them to remain under the radar until they encrypted data. Many characteristics of Anubis are common among Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS)...Read More
An alleged member of a criminal cyber hacking group had been extradited to Chicago face federal charges after being arrested in Finland. In a superseding criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, Peter Stokes, 19 — an alleged member of the hacking group Scattered Spider — was charged with conspiracy, cyber intrusion, and...Read More
This is no time for complacency on the cybersecurity front, as two major security threats are shaking the industry in 2026. They are posed by residential proxies, which have global footprints through every major home network provider, and the recent revelation of AI models capable of identifying zero-day vulnerabilities in every major software distribution far faster than...Read More
