A new report by the international police organisation has revealed escalating levels of cyber-crime across the continent and inadequate capabilities to fight it. INTERPOL has confirmed spiking rates of cyber-crime across Africa in its latest Africa Cyberthreat Assessment Report. Published yesterday (23 June), the agency confirmed that cyber-crime accounted for over 30% of all crime […]
Prodatix Case Study: Ransomware Resilience and Ransomware Recovery Ransomware attacks aren’t just encrypting and deleting your data. They’re deleting your hypervisor which can even destroy immutable repositories if they sit on top of Hyper-V or VMware. And now, cyber-liability insurance companies can sequester your server infrastructure while they bring in a cyber-forensics company to determine […]
Upon opening the 25th ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC) and its Related Meetings in this capital on Tuesday, Malaysian Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail noted that cybercrimes range from financial scams to ransomware attacks. Nasution Ismail emphasized that these crimes have emerged as a serious and urgent challenge in today’s […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has brought to light an age-old problem with medical IT systems: many are excessively vulnerable because they are based on legacy equipment from 20 or more years ago that were not built with cybersecurity in mind.In its report dated June 2025, the FDA said that for medical devices manufacturers […]
The healthcare sector has become a target for both low-level and occasionally highly disruptive cyberattacks. Hospitals, insurers, medical supply chains, and service providers are prime targets for threat actors, with phishing attacks, ransomware, and data breaches on the rise. In 2024, 94% of U.S. healthcare organizations experienced a cyberattack, with an average cost per organization […]
A Richmond man was arrested on Friday, June 20, after the Richmond Police Department discovered he had sent explicit content to a decoy posing as a minor. Caleb Hughes, 25, was charged with the procurement or promotion of a minor by electronic means and the distribution of obscene material to minors. × This page […]
Erie Insurance reports that it has made progress in reconnecting several business systems and applications as it continues to recover from a network outage that is now 17 days old. The insurer said the network and system outage it initiated on June 7 helped contain a threat. According to the insurer, “there is no evidence […]
Muscat: The Shura Council held its twelfth regular session for the second annual sitting (2024–2025) of the Tenth Term (2023–2027) on Tuesday, under the chairmanship of Tahir Mabkhout Al-Junaibi, Deputy Chairman of the Shura Council, in the presence of their Excellencies members of the Shura. During the session, the Council concluded its deliberations on the […]
British businesses are suffering significantly more damaging losses from ransomware attacks compared to the rest of the world, where things appear to be moving in a more positive direction, according to Sophos’ latest annual State of ransomware report, now in its sixth edition. The study of 3,400 ransomware victims in 17 countries, just over […]
Kolkata: Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj Verma issued a directive on Monday transferring a bulk of social media surveillance responsibilities from the STF to the cybercrime branch of Lalbazar and the divisional cybercrime units, implementing round-the-clock monitoring of online activities. A new joint CP (cyber) is set to take charge soon, sources said. The STF will […]
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