Parents often do not know what their children are up to — especially young children who may appear to be just playing games on a computer or chatting with others. Children are getting into cybercrime younger and younger and are actively being recruited. Read these public service announcements from the Internet Crime Complaint Center this week. …
Year: 2025
Au: Junior doctor faces fresh toilet spying charges as probe widens to other major hospitals
Erin Pearson reports on a case of insider-wrongdoing/snooping that is sure to have a lot of Australian patients worried whether they were filmed or not: Fresh charges have been laid against a suspended doctor accused of hiding a secret recording device in the staff toilet of a Melbourne hospital. Police re-arrested Ryan Cho at a…
Average Brit hit by five data breaches since 2004
For some perspective on the numbers affected by breaches over time, Emma Woollacott reports: Around seven British user accounts were breached every minute during the second quarter of 2025 – more than three million in total. While data breaches dropped globally by 58% from the previous quarter, the number rose from 70 million to 94…
BlackSuit ransomware site seized as part of Operation Checkmate
The BlackSuit ransomware operation has been disrupted by coordinated international law enforcement. A splash screen appeared on their leak site this week: THIS DOMAIN HAS BEEN SEIZED This site has been seized by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations as part of a coordinated international law enforcement investigation. OPERATION CHECKMATE Numerous agencies were involved in Operation Checkmate,…
The day after XSS.is forum was seized, it struggles to come back online — but is it really them?
Ever since law enforcement announced the arrest of an administrator of the XSS.is forum, forum members watched threads disappear from the site, and then a seizure notice splash screen appeared. No administrator or moderator had made any statement about the arrest or situation despite pleas from forum members for some clarification, and attempts to discuss…
U.S. nuclear and health agencies hit in Microsoft SharePoint breach
Ellen Nakashima, Joseph Menn and Carolyn Y. Johnson report: The National Institutes of Health and the federal agency responsible for securing the nation’s nuclear weapons were among the victims in a global breach of Microsoft server software over the weekend, according to officials at the agencies. The incident at NIH, which has not been previously reported, involved…