Advocates of internet safety and child protection will gather in Dublin later this week for a conference on online safety, against the backdrop of a landmark settlement involving Meta last month. The Department of Culture, Communications and Sport is hosting conference, titled Online Safety for Children and Young People, as…
Everyone agrees that social media should be more heavily regulated to protect young people. Everyone is wrong. It should be less regulated to protect young people. Regulation provides a semblance of safety, an illusion of safety. It is better to admit that there is no possibility of safety here. Imagine…
U.S. law-enforcement agencies and the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike took down a 23-year-old Russia-based botnet on Monday. Authorities from the Justice Department, the FBI and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service seized U.S.-based domain names belonging to the Sality botnet, while CrowdStrike analysts worked with the agencies to sever infected computers from…
In Malmesbury, South Africa, a 16-year-old boy was detained on suspicion of involvement in the transnational online extortion network 764, which police link to the exploitation of minors. As TimesLIVE reports, the detention took place on August 17 following an intelligence-led international investigation. South African police said that their Serial…
A massive cybercriminal operation is leveraging thousands of compromised small-business websites to deliver ClickFix payloads stored in smart contracts on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC). Over the past months, researchers identified more than 5,400 hacked websites, most of them built on WordPress and PrestaShop. The initial compromise method remains unknown,…
In July, Chelsea Green left Twitter after being accused of being MAGA. She cleared up her political stance, but hasn’t tweeted since outside of a Fourth of July photo. Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Chelsea confirmed she’s staying off Twitter. “Ethan Page was like, ‘Chelsea, don’t be doing…
Summary On September 4, 2026, the ransomware group Qilin publicly claimed responsibility for a cyberattack against AP Capital Partners Limited (apcapitalpartners.com), a prominent UK financial firm. The group suggested that sensitive data would be leaked unless negotiations were initiated. Incident Report Field Details Target AP Capital Partners Limited Domain apcapitalpartners.com…
The United States has long relied on private companies to defend against cybercrime. Under a new program called for in an August 2026 White House memorandum, companies can now go on the offensive. This initiative could give the United States a powerful new tool against criminal groups that target businesses,…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) executed coordinated searches at 89 locations across 20 states as part of Operation Chakra-VI, targeting digital arrest offences and organised cybercrime networks. The searches related to three cases taken over by the CBI from various states involving victims who were digitally detained by cybercriminals…
LAS VEGAS, Sept 1 : A two-decade-old Russian hacking operation dubbed “Sality” is being dismantled, U.S. law enforcement officials and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike announced on Tuesday. U.S. officials said they had seized the web domains hackers used to take over computers to send spam, carry out distributed denial-of-service operations or steal cryptocurrency, while…
