The UK has announced a series of new cybersecurity assessment schemes in a bid to push secure by design principles. Unveiled at the CYBERUK 2025 conference, the new initiatives are designed to enable firms to demonstrate their cyber resiliency, and boost confidence in the products and services used by organizations. The first scheme is the […]
Play ransomware exploited Windows zero-day. getty The ransomware threat is far from over, despite the internal private communications of some of the cybercriminal gangs being leaked, snitches being offered big bucks for information on gang members, and the childishness of DOGE-trolling attackers demanding $1 trillion payments. If you want evidence of this, look no further […]
Ransomware as a service. What is ransomware as a service? Ransomware as a service is a business model where ransomware operators and third parties, called “affiliates”, work together to launch ransomware attacks. RaaS was first identified in 2012 with the Reveton ransomware strain, and in the subsequent decade, it has exploded into a sophisticated and […]
Cybercrime continues to be a rapidly rising threat, with cases in the Philippines tripling to 10,004 in 2024, according to the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC). CIBI Information Inc., the country’s first and only local credit bureau, recognizing the urgent need for a coordinated, data-driven approach to fight cybercrime, officially launches the Fraud Bureau. […]
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Emily Juarez no longer feels safe letting her two older children ride public transportation or walk to their LA Unified school after an increase in reports of violence near district campuses. “I stopped maybe a couple of weeks ago,” Juarez […]
Shayimamba Conco, cyber security expert at Check Point. Ransomware attacks rebounded in 2024 after law enforcement took down LockBit and Noberus, two of the most prolific ransomware syndicates. The former was said to have been responsible for around 25% of all victims listed on ransomware leak sites in 2023. In February 2025, the Cybersecurity and […]
WASHINGTON — Twelve Chinese nationals — including mercenary hackers, law enforcement officers and employees of a private hacking company — have been charged in connection with global cybercrime campaigns targeting dissidents, news organizations, U.S. agencies and universities, the Justice Department said Wednesday. A set of criminal cases filed in New York and Washington add new […]
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the primary U.S. nonprofit fighting child sexual exploitation, said Friday that it is removing all references to transgender people from its public materials. The move is in accordance with an executive order President Trump signed last week, which bars federal funding that goes to “gender ideology” […]
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that 205 alleged child sex predators who preyed on children online have been arrested in the last five days. The arrests are part of a new joint operation by the Justice Department and FBI called “Operation Restore Justice,” which saw 115 children across the […]
Almost 60,000 Bitcoin addresses tied to LockBit’s ransomware infrastructure were leaked after hackers breached the group’s dark web affiliate panel. The leak included a MySQL database dump shared publicly online. It contained crypto-related information that could help blockchain analysts trace the group’s illicit financial flows. Ransomware is a type of malware used by malicious actors. […]
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