The Federal Reserve, the U.S. Senate, the Department of Justice, NASA and other federal agencies were victims of computer intrusions by a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, the DOJ said Wednesday morning as it announced the court-ordered seizure of internet domains used for hacking platforms. The hacking platforms, known as “QScan”…

Private guards will monitor town centres amid local authority criticism Peter Harris (right) celebrate during the 2026 Essex County Council election Author: Charlotte BarberPublished 13 hours ago Essex County Council is planning to employ private security guards to patrol town and city centres in response to worries about community safety…

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Meta settled Wednesday in its multistate lawsuit over alleged child social media addiction claims. The Big Tech platform agreed to the $17 billion settlement with California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey in People of the State of California, et al. v. Meta Platforms, Inc. in Oakland, California,…

Rhysida Ransomware Group Targets Berlin Government Ahead of Vote Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2026 Berlin ‘s government faces a Rhysida ransomware attack weeks before elections, with officials refusing to pay despite a claimed 5.79 TB data theft. Berlin’s state government confirmed this week it’s dealing with an extortion attempt following…

Reuters reports that Russian-speaking hackers from the Aur0ra ransomware gang used Cursor’s AI coding agent, built on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5, to break into at least seven companies by falsely claiming the intrusions were authorized security tests. Gambit Security and CloudSek found the trick boosted the hackers’ speed by 30…

Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that global cybercrime damages would hit $10.5 trillion in 2025, a figure we have been compounding upward from $3 trillion in 2015 and $6 trillion in 2021. The estimate folds in stolen funds, fraud, productivity loss, intellectual property theft, post-attack remediation, regulatory fines, and reputational harm. To put…

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia, notorious for being a major center for international online scams, claimed Friday it no longer hosts any of the compounds where the lucrative cybercrime was carried out, although some remain skeptical. The government’s Ad-Hoc Commission for Combating Online Scams, CCOS, claimed success for its…

Beyond the Hype: AI, Ransomware and Business Models AI is not (yet) fundamentally reinventing cybercrime. For bold predictions on how it will change, look to history to understand what drives criminal behaviour online. We are frequently told by cyber security marketers that we are in the midst of an AI-powered…

A US federal judge has blocked the Pentagon from enforcing its decision to label Anthropic a national security supply-chain risk. The ruling comes after the AI company challenged the designation, arguing that it was retaliation for refusing to allow Claude to be used for autonomous weapons and certain surveillance operations….