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Police take First VPN offline after five-year investigation
The Dutch and French police, in collaboration with Europol, have taken the VPN service First VPN offline. Thi...
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2025 was a new record year for ransomware
The number of ransomware attacks worldwide rose by 50 percent to nearly 7,900 incidents in 2025, according to...
Google sees increase in AI abuse by cybercriminals
The latest analysis from the Google Threat Intelligence Group shows that malicious actors are no longer just ...
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Western Europe is a hotbed for cybercriminals’ servers (update)
Update February 9: rdp.monster has informed us that it is surprised to have been mentioned by Sophos research...
Security experts themselves carried out ransomware attacks
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Malicious LLMs lower the threshold for cybercrime
Two LLM platforms, WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT, demonstrate that AI tools are becoming increasingly accessible to...
Cybercriminals are using AI in increasingly sophisticated ways, says Google
The threat posed by artificial intelligence in the hands of malicious actors is becoming increasingly real. T...
Dutch police takes Counter Antivirus service AVCheck offline
The Dutch Team High Tech Crime, in collaboration with international partners, has shut down the Counter Antiv...
“Hack on LockBit may lead to a more dangerous threat landscape”
The hacks on ransomware groups LockBit and Everest seem like a positive development, but according to Orange ...
Cybercriminals are circumventing multi-factor authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is no longer the strong line of defense it used to be. Although MFA has lon...