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A nationally representative Australian study reveals that AI is increasingly used to create child sexual abuse imagery and that boys are disproportionately affected. The research also finds that many teenagers turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude for help after victimization, more often than to authorities.
The FBI seized hundreds of domains linked to NetNut, a residential proxy service operated by Israeli company Alarum Technologies, which is associated with the Popa botnet comprising at least two million compromised devices.
This security news roundup covers the latest LastPass data breach via a partner, predictive policing in Bristol, Dialog group data exposure, Anthropic's AI model negotiations with the White House, OpenAI's new GPT-5.5-Cyber and open-source patching initiative, and other security stories.
Two UK teenagers, part of the Scattered Spider cyber-crime collective, were known to police years before carrying out the TfL hack, highlighting challenges in early intervention against high-risk cyber offenders.
Google is suing a Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise for using AI, including its own Gemini, to run massive phishing scams that have victimized hundreds of thousands of people and caused billions in losses.
An investigation into the ransomware group 'The Gentlemen' reveals clues pointing to the real-life identity of its administrator, known as Hastalamuerte/Zeta88, an Izhevsk-based Russian speaker who recruits affiliates with a 90/10 ransom split.
Police and international authorities dismantled a VPN service used by criminals, seizing servers and identifying users, after a years-long investigation.
An analysis of the modern cybercrime landscape, highlighting the industrialization of cybercriminal methods using automation and AI, and the five key factors influencing enterprise cybersecurity.
Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib wiped 96 government databases minutes after being fired from their IT jobs, then boasted about it in private messages. Both were later indicted; Muneeb pleaded guilty, and Sohaib was convicted after a trial.
A senior member of the cybercrime group Scattered Spider, Tyler Robert Buchanan, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identity theft for orchestrating SMS phishing attacks that compromised major tech companies and stole millions in cryptocurrency.
German authorities identified 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin as the head of the REvil and GandCrab ransomware groups, linking him to over 130 cyberattacks and extortion of nearly $2 million euros.