Attorney General James and Multistate Coalition Secure $5.1 Million from Illuminate Education For Failing to Protect Students’ Data

With so many cyberattacks being disclosed every day, a lof ot them never get reported on in the media. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but some of them do contain sensitive personal information or could expose people — or the entity itself — to increased risk of future attacks. One such incident involved Liberty Township…

More details have emerged on the arrest of an alleged XSS.is administrator by Ukrainian cyber police. The seizure notice has now appeared on the .onion version of the forum, and threads have been totally removed. As of the time of this update, and while the forum could still be updated before the seizure notice replaced…

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has revealed that no less than three cyber attacks were recorded against state administration bodies and critical infrastructure facilities in the country with an aim to steal sensitive data. The campaign, the agency said, involved the use of compromised email accounts to send phishing messages containing links…

Sophos X-Ops’ research, presented at Virus Bulletin 2024, uses ‘multimodal’ AI to classify spam, phishing, and unsafe web content

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it’s extending Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) for an extra year by letting users either pay a small fee of $30 or by sync their PC settings to the cloud. The development comes ahead of the tech giant’s upcoming October 14, 2025, deadline, when it plans to officially end…

Part entrepreneurial adventure, part security history, Bernardo Quintero’s ‘Infected’ documents how the VirusTotal side project became a threat-intel cornerstone. The post Book Review: Infected – A Candid Look at VirusTotal’s Birth and Legacy appeared first on SecurityWeek.