Suspected Child Predator Re-Arrested While On Bond In Galveston | #childpredator | #kidsaftey | #childsaftey

(Texas Scorecard) – After being arrested for recording minors in dressing rooms, Taylor Roy was released on bond—only to face a second round of charges related to making invasive recordings of minors. Roy, 31, a former security guard at The Woodlands Mall and a tennis coach for children ages 8 to 17, has now been arrested and […]

Co-op apologises after hackers extract ‘significant’ amount of customer data | Co-operative Group | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker

The Co-op has apologised after hackers accessed and extracted data relating to a “significant number” of its customers from one of its systems. The group, which owns more than 2,000 grocery stores and more than 800 funeral parlours and offers legal and financial services, said hackers had been able to access personal data including names […]

Extortion and Ransomware Trends January-March 2025 | #ransomware | #cybercrime

Executive Summary Unit 42 regularly monitors the cyberthreat landscape, including trends in extortion and ransomware. Ransomware actors continue to evolve to increase the effectiveness of their attacks and the likelihood that organizations will pay what is demanded. In our 2025 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report, we found that 86% of incidents involved business disruption, […]

Harrods, M&S hit by cyberattack: What happened, who’s behind it? | Cybercrime News | #cybercrime | #infosec

British retail giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) and the iconic Knightsbridge department store, Harrods, have become the latest to be hit by cyberattacks in the UK. Online orders at M&S, one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent high-street stores, remain paused and the attack has already cost the company millions of pounds in lost revenues. Here […]

Republicans, Democrats clash over Department of Child Safety money | Arizona | #childsafety | #kids | #chldern | #parents | #schoolsafey

Republicans and Democrats continue pointing the finger at one another after the Joint Legislative Budget Committee approved a transfer of funds to help a state program. JLBC approved a $6.5 million transfer in addition to $10 million from other Arizona programs to aid the Department of Child Safety’s Congregate Care program. The program involves a […]

Multiple arrests made after multi-agency investigation into child sex abuse | #childpredator | #onlinepredator | #sextrafficing

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A recent multi-agency investigation has led to 10 people arrested on charges related to child sex abuse. Those arrested between April 28 and 29 include: 22-year-old Daniel Hennigh 51-year-old Vaughn Catillon 51-year-old Shawn Crawford 23-year-old Andrew Mosely 42-year-old Deepen Kothari 30-year-old Oliver Cruz Tejeda 30-year-old Kevin Rodriguez-Umana 32-year-old David Jones 39-year-old […]

Raytheon settles its civil case over federal security regs, while feds indict Ukrainian national for alleged Nefilim ransomware activities. | #ransomware | #cybercrime

Two different federal Justice Department cybersecurity cases announced May 1 underscored the complex challenges the agency faces in policing cybersecurity issues.The first case involved an $8.4 million civil settlement with Raytheon Company and Nightwing for resolving allegations that Raytheon violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with federal cybersecurity controls on 29 Defense […]

How Cook County Sheriff’s Office SVU Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force tracks down suspected child predators | EXCLUSIVE | #childpredator | #onlinepredator | #sextrafficing

CHICAGO (WLS) — Last year, there were more than 36 million reports of suspected child exploitation online submitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline. Here in the Chicago area, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office has a Special Victims’ Unit dedicated to catching people who target our most vulnerable. Over a series […]

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