Total on-chain ransomware payments fell 8% YoY to $820M in 2025, despite a record 50% rise in claimed victims; the median payment grew 368% YoY to nearly $60K
Total on-chain ransomware payments fell 8% YoY to $820M in 2025, despite a record 50% rise in claimed victims; the median payment grew 368% YoY to nearly $60K
TL;DR — Ransomware payments stagnated despite record attacks claimed. Total on-chain ransomware payments fell by approximately 8% …
Documents: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials …
Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion
The agency says that victims of an investment offering involving Gemini Trust got their money back, though after a regulatory action brought by the New York attorney general.
The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would let victims sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images on X
The US Senate unanimously passed legislation Tuesday that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images …
The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images
The US Senate unanimously passed legislation Tuesday that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images …
Two ex-staffers of cybersecurity incident response companies Sygnia and DigitalMint plead guilty to targeting US companies in 2023's BlackCat ransomware attacks
group demanded up to $10 million from each victim Jonathan Greig / The Record : Ransomware responders plead guilty to using ALPHV in attacks on US organizations Deeba Ahmed / Hackread : 2 US Cybersecu...
A profile of the Digital Security Helpline, run by Access Now, which gives 24/7 help to reporters and others who suspect they are victims of government spyware
For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been targeted and hacked by governments all over the world. LinkedIn: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai . Bluesky: @mohdmaskat...
India's digital transformation has exposed citizens to scams like “digital arrests”, where victims are coerced into transferring funds under false accusations
She races into her bedroom, shuts the door behind her, then falls to the checkered-tile floor. The only place to hide is beneath the bed.
Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month
from content delivery and DDoS protection to DNS services. When Cloudflare has an outage, it doesn't just affect one company; it impacts a Dane Knecht / @dok2001 : You can read the details of what wen...