Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
Interpol recently announced that it arrested 260 cybercrime suspects across 14 African countries in an operation dubbed Operation Contender 3.0 that targeted criminal networks involved in global romance scams and sextortion schemes.
According to Interpol, the operation dismantled 81 cybercrime infrastructure networks across Africa, with the seizure of USB drives, SIM cards, and forged documents…
On Monday, May 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law. The Act, which unanimously passed the Senate and cleared the House in a 409-2 vote, criminalizes the distribution of intimate images of someone without their consent. Lawmakers from both parties have commented that the law is long…
According to the FBI, it has “seen a huge increase in the number of cases involving children and teens being threatened and coerced into sending explicit images online,” also known as sextortion.
In some cases, the criminal will threaten the teen that they have a revealing picture or video and that they will share…
Criminal minds are creative, and new ransomware strains show just how creative cyber-attackers can be. A new strain of ransomware, dubbed Ransomwared, requests a different kind of payment from the victim than the typical bitcoin request. Instead of paying for the decryption of data, or to prevent cyber-attackers from releasing private photos they have obtained…
