HYDERABAD: Tech giant Google unveiled its first safety engineering centre (GSEC) in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and its fourth globally after Munich, Dublin, and Malaga (Spain), in Hyderabad on Wednesday.GSEC India is housed within what is Google’s largest base outside the US and was also its first port of call in India in 2004. […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Tallahassee Memorial Hospital has sent out a cybersecurity alert, but they say the breach happened at a data center they don’t use anymore. The records vendor, Oracle Health, experienced a security issue that included TMH patient data, but the hospital says its current records system is not impacted. More Tallahassee news: […]

Switzerland-based multinational investment bank UBS Group AG has confirmed that employee data was stolen and published online following a successful ransomware-style attack on one of its third-party suppliers. The news of the breach was first reported Tuesday by Swiss media outlet Le Temps, which said that data relating to about 130,000 UBS employees had been […]

Trojanized Minecraft cheat tools hosted on GitHub have secretly installed stealers that siphon credentials, crypto wallets, and other sensitive data when executed by players. According to Check Point Research, which spotted the Minecraft mod malware, about 500 GitHub repositories were part of this operation targeting gamers and about 70 accounts gave the malicious repos 700 […]

Dakota State University received a $1 million grant from Google to host a cybersecurity clinic. Officials say the clinic is improving cybersecurity in the state and abroad. DSU’s clinic is servicing towns, cities, small businesses and more by helping people gain the skills needed to protect data. The clinic is one of 25 of its […]

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Attacks Tied to SafePay, Qlin, Play and Akira Surge; Scattered Spider Returns Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 18, 2025     It’s shake-up season in the ransomware world as old brands have disappeared, forcing an affiliate diaspora and perverse innovation from a criminal underworld in flux. See Also: […]

From June 4 to 6 2025, a delegation from Kazakhstan participated in the international conference “OCTOPUS 2025 – Conference on Countering Cybercrime”, hosted by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. The participation of the delegation was facilitated by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana within the framework of the extra-budgetary project “Supporting the Republic […]

Mower County systems down after ransomware attack Published 3:05 pm Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Hope to have services back by Friday   Mower County has shut down most of its systems Wednesday as it deals with the fallout from a ransomware attack. According to Mower County Administrator Matthew Verdick, county IT specialists became aware of […]

Justice Yellim Bogoro of the High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday sentenced an employee of Ecobank, Solomon Ufayo, to one year in prison for committing cybercrime involving ₦2.4 million. The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) brought a one-count charge against Ufayo, to which he pleaded guilty. According […]