As the books close on fiscal year 2024–25, the cybercrime numbers are in with another sobering tally. A total of 18,926 cybercrime cases were registered at the Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police over the past 12 months, an average of around 52 cases per day. On paper, the figure is slightly lower than last year’s […]
Darktrace today announced the acquisition of Mira Security, a provider of network traffic visibility solutions. Building on the companies’ established partnership, the acquisition will strengthen Darktrace’s network security leadership by providing more insight from encrypted network traffic and more comprehensive decryption for customers in regulated industries. The Mira Security team will bring deep expertise in […]
On June 24, 2025, Avantic Medical Lab was listed as a victim of a ransomware attack by the Everest group on their dark web portal. The attackers claimed to have stolen 33 GB of sensitive data, including electronic medical records (EMRs), patient histories, test results, private medical records, billing information and internal documents. The Everest […]
On June 3, 2025, the ransomware group known as BLACKLOCK publicly claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Navesink Rehab, a multidisciplinary rehabilitation center based in Red Bank, New Jersey. The data breach was announced on the ransomware group’s dark web leak site hosted on the Tor network. According to BLACKLOCK, they successfully infiltrated Navesink Rehab’s […]
Ransomware actors have breached a subsidiary of Russian alcohol company Novabev Group, affecting its business operations. “Novabev Group pays great attention to cybersecurity, regularly improving the protection of its infrastructure: from daily monitoring and eliminating vulnerabilities to employee training,” the company says in a note on its press room page. “Thanks to this, the company […]
Justice Alexander Owoeye of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos has ordered the final forfeiture of $222,729.86 in USDT (Tether cryptocurrency) recovered from suspected members of an international cybercrime syndicate, including Chinese nationals. The order was issued on Monday, July 21, following an ex parte motion filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]
Radiology Associates of Richmond (RAR) has confirmed a data breach that affected more than 1.4 million patients in Virginia, according to a report posted July 18 by abc8News of Richmond and Central Virginia. The hack occurred in April 2024, but Radiology Associates didn’t discover it until this May, it said in a statement. “RAR has […]
In a nutshell: The 158-year-old firm had roughly 700 employees on its payroll and had industry standard security measures in place, including insurance against cyberattacks. But when a group of hackers managed to break into their system by guessing an employee password and encrypted all of their data, it was the end of the line […]
Children as young as eight are watching online pornography, a UK regulator has warned as pressure mounts on adult websites to tighten age verification measures. In their latest report, online regulator Ofcom has unveiled that an average of eight per cent of eight to fourteen-year-olds in the UK have visited a pornographic content service within […]
In the shadowy world of cybersecurity, where digital fortresses are only as strong as their weakest link, a 158-year-old British transport company has become a cautionary tale. KNP Logistics Group, a venerable firm with roots stretching back to the Victorian era, was brought to its knees by a seemingly innocuous oversight: a weak password. According […]
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