EPIC Releases New Report on Protecting Health Privacy in the Digital Age

Today’s reminder of the insider threat, from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia: ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A U.S. Department of State (DOS) employee was sentenced today to four years in prison for conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information to individuals he knew to be working for the government of……

Diogo Santos Coelho (aka “Omnipotent” of RaidForums) was arrested in January 2022 in the U.K. when he traveled there to visit his mother. For the past 3+ years, he has been in limbo while both the U.S. and Portugal seek his extradition. It has not been a straightforward matter legally. Far from it, actually. The……

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has announced that it has taken steps to dismantle what it said was a transnational cybercrime syndicate that carried out “sophisticated” tech support scams targeting citizens of Australia and the United Kingdom. The fraudulent scheme is estimated to have led to losses worth more than £390,000 ($525,000) in the…

Kaaviya reports: A significant security breach within the Qilin ransomware operation has provided unprecedented insight into the group’s affiliate network structure and operational methods. On July 31, 2025, internal conflicts between the ransomware group and one of its affiliates led to the public exposure of sensitive operational details, marking a rare glimpse into the inner…

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a credit card stealing malware campaign that has been observed targeting e-commerce sites running Magento by disguising the malicious content within image tags in HTML code in order to stay under the radar. MageCart is the name given to a malware that’s capable of stealing sensitive payment information from online shopping…

Google has stepped in to clarify that a newly introduced Android System SafetyCore app does not perform any client-side scanning of content. “Android provides many on-device protections that safeguard users against threats like malware, messaging spam and abuse protections, and phone scam protections, while preserving user privacy and keeping users in control of their data,”…