Karen Vardanyan faces up to 15 years in federal prison and agreed to pay nearly $1.2 million in restitution. The post Armenian national pleads guilty to Ryuk ransomware attacks appeared first on Cyber
A major credential leak spurred the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to strengthen protections for its sensitive materials, improve how researchers can report agency vulnerabilities an
Microsoft’s latest Secure Future Initiative report outlines progress on secure foundations, AI-powered defense, and future-ready cybersecurity. The post Securing our future: July 2026 progress report
GigaWiper is a remote access Trojan that can spy on victims and permanently wipe their systems in three different ways.
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 10, 2026 – Watch the video The Cybercrime Magazine media team will step into the Business Hall at Black
In the near future, AI -powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk,
Anyone who deals with phishing messages caught by basic security filters knows that most phishing samples tend to blend into one another, since only a small set of techniques and approaches keeps reap
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Angelo Martino exploited his insider position and fed confidential information to ransomware co-conspirators to extort a combined $75.3 million from five U.S.-based victims. The post Former DigitalMin
AWS MCP Server using the same credentials and sign-in methods that you already use for connecting to the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) through a familiar browser-based
The anti-fraud crackdown, dubbed Operation First Light, identified more than 142,000 victims of various social-engineering scams. The post Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 co
Last week, there were disclosed in and that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerab
Crypto prediction games promise easy wins, but some are little more than token sales or outright scams. Here's what to look for.
GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational platform. This blog analyzes how the malware incorporates code from several
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 9, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Strangers were watching your children sleep. For months, anyone with basic t
The RoguePlanet zero-day is now fixed in Microsoft Defender. Here's how to make sure your system is protected.
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One of the project’s top goals is stitching together an international, quick response coalition of governments, businesses and civil experts for AI-related threats. The post French nonprofit starts gl
At Microsoft we encompass these security requirements, along with threat knowledge, and operational frameworks in our Secure Future Initiative (SFI), to guide what a well-defended cloud service looks
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