The National Crime Agency (NCA) has made significant progress in combating retail cybercrime with the arrest of four individuals suspected of orchestrating sophisticated cyber attacks against major UK retailers.  The coordinated operation, conducted on July 10, 2025, targeted a cybercriminal group allegedly responsible for breaching the digital infrastructure of Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods […]

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Easterly and Boyd join defenders at inaugural conference focused on countering emerging threats, September 21-22 in Reston, VA LEXINGTON, Mass., July 10, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VulnCheck, the exploit intelligence company, today announced that former CISA Director Jen Easterly and former Director of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) Andrew Boyd will keynote THREATCON1, taking place September […]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Albemarle County Communications Director Abbey Stumpf is revealing the cyber incident that necessitated a shutdown of internet for a few days in county offices was a ransomware attack, and county resident data such as names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and other similar identifiers may have been illegally […]

Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin was arrested in France at the request of the United States for allegedly acting as a negotiator for a ransomware gang. Daniil Kasatkin is a Russian basketball player who briefly played NCAA basketball at Penn State before returning to Russia in 2019. In four seasons with MBA-MAI, he appeared in […]

Pakistan’s National Cybercrime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) arrested 149 people, including 48 Chinese nationals, during a raid on a factory in the city of Faisalabad on Monday, in what authorities are calling a major blow against a transnational cybercrime syndicate. The group allegedly ran a large-scale online fraud operation involving hacking, Ponzi schemes, and investment scams […]

French authorities have arrested a Russian professional basketball player who is accused of being a member of a ransomware gang, according to newswire Agence France-Presse.  Daniil Kasatkin plays for MBA Moscow, a team that is part of the VTB United League, which comprises mostly Russian clubs as well as one team from Belarus and Kazakhstan. […]

New York, July 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 17 other press freedom and human rights organizations on July 10 in a statement condemning Tunisia’s ongoing crackdown on freedom of expression and calling for the immediate release of imprisoned commentator Sonia Dahmani, who is serving multiple prison sentences under a repressive cybercrime Decree-Law 54 […]

At the request of the United States, French police arrested a professional Russian basketball player who had a brief tenure at Penn State over accusations that he was part of a ransomware ring, according to overseas reports. News of the arrest of Daniil Kasatkin came in a court in Paris on Wednesday. His lawyer denied […]

Three teenagers and a 20-year-old woman were arrested Thursday by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency for their alleged role in cyberattacks on major retailers Marks & Spencer (M&S), Co-op, and Harrods. The arrests, comprising British and Latvian nationals, followed sustained investigations into attacks that crippled the retailers’ operations. The NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit detained […]