Paraguay says it will not pay off cybercriminals who obtained personal data potentially affecting every citizen. The group is threatening to make the data public if the government doesn’t pay $7.4 million by June 13. “The government never negotiates with these types of actors,” Gustavo Villate, Minister of Technology and Information, told OCCRP A group […]

Days after her maiden French Open title triumph, Coco Gauff shockingly found one of her social media handles hacked. Upon realizing the uncomfortable truth, Gauff made her followers aware of the situation. On Wednesday, June 11, a post shared via the 21-year-old’s X (formerly Twitter) claimed she had started a memecoin ‘to help underprivileged youth […]

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Interpol dismantled 20,000 malicious domains in cyber crackdown. (Photo: Poetra.RH/Shutterstock) Interpol has revealed that it has dismantled over 20,000 malicious IP addresses and domains associated with information-stealing malware. The operation, named Operation Secure, was conducted from January to April 2025 and involved law enforcement agencies from 26 countries. The primary focus was on locating and […]

BMM Innovation Group, a technology conglomerate focused on gaming product compliance testing, cybersecurity solutions, and virtual training for the global gaming industry, announced that it is exhibiting at the Perú Gaming Show 2025, June 18–19 at the Centro de Exposiciones Jockey in Lima, Perú.  BMM’s local experts will be available at Booth No. 31–32 to […]

As risk professionals descended on Airmic 2025, one industry leader called out two critical challenges facing the sector: the sustainability of pricing in property and casualty (P&C) and the growing urgency of tackling cyber risk. “The biggest conversations focussed on the long-term sustainability of pricing in P&C, and how risk managers can deliver greater strategic […]

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered the alleged sale of a sophisticated Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) botnet that combines legitimate development frameworks with cutting-edge evasion techniques. The threat actor is reportedly offering the complete source code of a botnet that leverages Node.js runtime, blockchain-based command and control infrastructure, and modern web technologies to create a highly resilient and scalable […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reaffirmed its commitment to dismantling foreign-led cybercrime networks after arresting 177 Chinese nationals during major raids targeting transnational fraud operations in Lagos and Abuja. The arrests, which formed part of a wider crackdown between December 2024 and January 2025, followed the discovery of sophisticated scam centres resembling […]

Fog ransomware hackers are using an uncommon toolset, which includes open-source pentesting utilities and a legitimate employee monitoring software called Syteca. The Fog ransomware operation was first observed last year in May leveraging compromised VPN credentials to access victims’ networks. Post-compromise, they used “pass-the-hash” attacks to gain admin privileges, disabled Windows Defender, and encrypted all files, including virtual […]

Europol has warned that a surge in demand for data on the cybercrime underground is fuelling an underground economy built on fraud, ransomware, child exploitation and extortion. Published yesterday, its 2025 Internet Organised Crime Assessment report is based on intelligence gathered from the policing group’s own investigations, the EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment […]