Abbott discloses cyberattack on cancer diagnostics business | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware

Abbott disclosed on Thursday that a cyberattack hit its cancer diagnostics business. The medical device company said in a statement posted to its website that there was unauthorized access to a limited number of internal systems in its cancer diagnostics business. There was no impact on other Abbott businesses, sites or systems. Abbott’s cancer diagnostics […]

Digital Arrest Scams and the Limits of Domestic Enforcement | #cybercrime | #infosec

Cyber fraud has emerged as one of the most frequently reported crimes in India in recent years, particularly in the form of economic and digital offences. In April 2026, an elderly man in Mangaluru lost INR 2.07 crore after scammers posing as government investigators convinced him he was under investigation, underscoring the growing sophistication of […]

Savoy sex offender sentenced to 25 years for child pornography, failure to register | #childpredator | #kidsaftey | #childsaftey

Booking photo of Jonathan Lee Thomas, 50(Fannin County Dist. Attorney’s Office) BONHAM, Texas (KXII) — A Savoy man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography and failure to maintain a duty to register as a sex offender. Jonathan Lee Thomas, 50, entered the plea before […]

Ransomware Attack Halts Production at Coca-Cola’s Fairlife Dairies | #ransomware | #cybercrime

Production at the U.S. operations of Fairlife LLC, Coca-Cola’s dairy operation, have been temporarily suspended because of a cyberattack, Coca-Cola announced yesterday (July 16). Fairlife’s Canada production operations are not currently impacted. Coca-Cola did not share a lot of details but said the dairy unit “identified unauthorized access by a third party to a portion […]

Armenia Detains Russian Tourist on U.S. Warrant for REvil Hacker, Lawyers Say Wrong Man | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker

Armenia has held a Russian tourist named Aleksandr Ermakov in a detention center since June 28, on a U.S. extradition request for a REvil ransomware suspect named Aleksandr Ermakov. His wife, Maria Yurova, told REN TV that border officers pulled him out of the departure hall at Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport, held up a phone with […]

OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware

Eleven bytes will make an unpatched OpenSSL server set aside up to 131 KB of memory for a message that never arrives. On the glibc systems Okta tested, that memory is gone until the process restarts. OpenSSL shipped the HollowByte fix in June with no CVE, no advisory, and no changelog entry pointing at it. […]

This Week in AI: A First for Agentic Ransomware – O’Reilly | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware

Christina Stathopoulos, the data and AI evangelist behind Dare to Data, continued her run sorting the week’s most impactful stories into a handful of themes we’ve been watching play out over the past month: more firms investing in the compute AI runs on, more concerns about who controls a model’s borders, and more AI-generated code […]

HUMAN Security reports 12M stolen streaming accounts tied to World Cup cybercrime surge | #cybercrime | #infosec

The biggest World Cup in history is also generating the biggest cybercrime haul in streaming history. HUMAN Security’s Satori Threat Intelligence Research Team released findings on June 30 showing a massive spike in stolen streaming credentials being traded across dark web marketplaces, with threat actors capitalizing on global demand for unauthorized access to tournament matches. […]

Arrests of children for sexual offences spikes to record levels | #childpredator | #kidsaftey | #childsaftey

Research suggests link between social media content and real-world behavior By Christian TodayFriday, July 17, 2026 Getty Images Police figures have shown that children are being arrested in record numbers for sexual offenses. In 2024-25, the number of children arrested for sexual offenses rose from 3,225 the previous year to 3,809.  Nearly all children arrested […]

Former Contractor Sued Over Stolen iPhone Hack | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker

The Lawsuit and the Players Magnet Forensics is not a household name, but it does sensitive work. The Canadian company sells so-called zero-day hacking tools to law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world. A zero-day is a software flaw the manufacturer does not know about yet, which makes it valuable for breaking into devices. […]

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