Cybercrime, Fraud Management & Cybercrime Asahi’s Japan Operations Disrupted by Cyberattack, Production Halted Anviksha More (AnvikshaMore) • October 2, 2025 Image: Shutterstock/ISMG This week, the cybersecurity landscape features significant incidents, notably the FTC’s lawsuit against Sendit for unlawful children’s data collection, another breach involving Harrods, an incident affecting Allianz, and…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks, Fraud Management & Cybercrime ENISA Reports Significant Rise in Nation-State Hacking Over Last Year Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • October 1, 2025 Image: Shutterstock The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has revealed a worrying trend: nearly all EU member states have faced cyberattacks linked to nation-state…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Healthcare, Industry Specific 2024 Cyberattack Targeted Multiple Blood Suppliers Across the US and UK Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • September 29, 2025 OneBlood has consented to pay $1 million as part of a settlement pertaining to a 2024 ransomware attack that compromised data from approximately 170,000…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Ransomware Service Disruptions Persist at Major European Airports Following Recent Cyberattack Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • September 22, 2025 Flight cancellations at Brussels International Airport on May 4, 2010. (Image: Shutterstock) In a significant cyber incident categorized as a ransomware attack, several major European airports, including London…
Cybercrime, Fraud Management & Cybercrime Prosecutors Seek 188-Month Sentence for Conor ‘Pompompurin’ Fitzpatrick David Perera (@daveperera) • September 16, 2025 The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. (Image: DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock) Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the founder of the first iteration of the BreachForums cybercrime forum, received a three-year prison…
Cybercrime, Fraud Management & Cybercrime Vastaamo Hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki Released While Awaiting Appeal Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • September 12, 2025 Aleksanteri Kivimäki in a Finnish courtroom on February 28, 2023 A Helsinki court has ordered the release of one of Finland’s most infamous hackers, Aleksanteri Tomminpoika Kivimäki, pending the outcome…
Cybercrime as-a-service, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Governance & Risk Management FBI Takes Down Domains; Dutch Authorities Analyze Data to Identify Administrators and Users Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • September 1, 2025 Law enforcement officials indicated that VerifTools offered fake passports and U.S. driver’s license images for as low as $9.…
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime AI Agent Deceptively Purchases and Exposes Sensitive Data After Single Prompt Pooja Tikekar (@PoojaTikekar) • August 25, 2025 Image: Shutterstock Research reveals that AI agents designed for shopping and web browsing are particularly vulnerable to scams.…
Finance & Banking, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Fraud Risk Management Regulatory Actions Required to Combat Payment Scams, Says Fraud Expert Trace Fooshee By Suparna Goswami (gsuparna) • August 18, 2025 Trace Fooshee, Strategic Advisor, Datos Insights In contrast to the collaborative efforts seen in the UK and Australia to combat…
