Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality website on April 25, 2025. April Ehrlich / OPB Earlier this month, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality sent an email to members of the public, media organizations and other state agencies. A week later, DEQ shut down its networks as it faced a massive cyberattack — and it internally […]
The Nigerian Army, 4 Brigade, Benin City, Edo State, have arrested 31 suspected criminals during a raid on a building in First Bank Estate, Awesome Garden, along the Benin-Sapele Bypass, Benin. The information is contained in a statement by the brigade’s Public Relations Officer, Capt. Chinonso Oteh, made available to journalists on Tuesday in Benin […]
An Auburn police officer was one of 10 people arrested during a sting operation to uncover child predators in western Massachusetts. Dominick Boschetto, of Brookfield, is the Auburn Police officer who was arrested in the sting conducted by the Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Berkshire County District Attorney’s office, according to a statement released […]
A ransomware group released millions of files they said were stolen from Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Oregon Public Radio reported Friday. The outlet reports that Rhysida, the ransomware group that claimed responsibility for a April 9 cyberattack that forced DEQ officials to pause most of services, including vehicle emissions testing, published 1.3 million files, […]
For the first half of his career in law enforcement, working as a police officer in South Florida, Chase Fopiano did not think cyberattacks on police agencies were a serious threat. Many of his law enforcement colleagues were under the same impression — that since they were the most likely to investigate the attacks, there […]
Orange Jordan held a strategic conference in cooperation with FutureTEC and NETSCOUT, targeting customers from the enterprise sector, with the aim of supporting business continuity by providing smart and advanced cybersecurity solutions. The conference featured a number of discussions on the increasing challenges facing the financial sector, focusing on the increasing Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, and […]
AOA, DaVita, and Bell Ambulance hit by ransomware in 2025. Over 245K affected as hackers steal patient data, demand ransoms, and disrupt healthcare services. This has been a dreadful first quarter for the healthcare sector. After Morphisec’s recent discovery of ResolverRAT malware targeting organisations within the healthcare sectors, three healthcare organizations in the United States […]
New details were released Tuesday about an Auburn, Massachusetts, police officer arrested as part of a child predator sting. The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office said Dominick Boschetto, 31, of Brookfield, is charged with sexual conduct for a fee and enticing a child under 16 for sex. He was arraigned Tuesday and bail was set at […]
Marks & Spencer dealt with service interruptions following the cyber incident now linked to hacking group Scattered Spider. (Photo: Shutterstock) The cyber incident at British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) resulted from a ransomware attack, suspected to be executed by the hacking group ‘Scattered Spider’, BleepingComputer has reported, quoting multiple anonymous sources. M&S, which operates […]
Law enforcement agencies from the UK and the Netherlands have dismantled the notorious JokerOTP cybercrime platform, which is allegedly linked to more than 28,000 phishing attacks across 13 countries. A 24-year-old man was apprehended this morning by Cleveland Police at a residence in Middlesbrough, England. He is currently being held in police custody on suspicion […]
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