The U.S. government and seven international partners have seized the computer servers of the BlackSuit ransomware group and more than $1 million in cryptocurrency that it laundered, the Justice Department said on Monday.  The FBI, the Secret Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the IRS’s Criminal Division worked with authorities in […]

Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix. The bug, tracked as CVE-2025-8088, is a path-traversal flaw that affects the Windows version of the decompression tool. It received an 8.4 CVSS rating and, according to WinRAR, has been patched in the newest version, […]

A ransomware gang the FBI warned the public about last month is claiming to have carried out a cyberattack that has disrupted large parts of St. Paul’s city government. The Interlock ransomware gang added the Minnesota city to its leak site on Monday, claiming to have stolen 43 gigabytes of data. No payment deadline or […]

Introduction Cyber-enabled fraud, or “cyber scams,” have emerged as an increasingly urgent security concern in the last two years. The compounds out of which they operate exist in multiple locations globally but have been most prolific in the special economic zones (SEZs) and fragile spaces in the Indo-Pacific region, especially Southeast Asia, where they have […]

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday it has seized the servers and $1 million in Bitcoin from the prolific Russian ransomware gang behind the BlackSuit and Royal malware.  According to the press release, a coalition of global law enforcement agencies, including from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Ireland, France, U.K., and others, seized four […]

Panaji: Goa police on Monday arrested a man in connection with alleged digital cyber fraud involving over Rs 1 crore. Goa police said that the accused’s bank account is linked to 13 criminal cases across 10 states, involving a total amount of over Rs 9 crore.SP (cybercrime) Rahul Gupta said that based on a Quepem […]

When cybersecurity student Emery Rios got an email about winning an RIT award, they immediately thought it was suspicious. Luckily, after a bit of investigation, Rios was able to confirm that the email was not a phishing attack. Rios, a combined accelerated cybersecurity BS/MS student, was selected for the Norman A. Miles Award for Academic […]

The Justice Department coordinated actions against the BlackSuit (Royal) Ransomware group which included the takedown of four servers and nine domains on July 24, 2025. Image for illustration purposes Texas Border Business – Advertisement – U.S. Department of Justice The Justice Department coordinated actions against the BlackSuit (Royal) Ransomware group which included the takedown of […]