Cybercrime
The State of AI Security in 2025: Key Insights from the Cisco Report
As more businesses adopt AI, understanding its security risks has become more important than ever. AI is reshaping industries and workflows, but it also introduces new security challenges that organizations must address. Protecting AI systems is essential to maintain trust, safeguard privacy, and ensure smooth business operations. This article summarizes the key insights from Cisco’s…
The Sophos Annual Threat Report: Cybercrime on Main Street 2025
Small businesses are a prime target for cybercrime, as we highlighted in our last annual report. Many of the criminal threats we covered in that report remained a major menace in 2024, including ransomware–which remains a primary existential cyber threat to small and midsized organizations. Ransomware cases accounted for 70 percent of Sophos Incident Response…
Your Android phone could have stalkerware — here’s how to remove it | TechCrunch
Consumer-grade spyware apps that covertly and continually monitor your private messages, photos, phone calls, and real-time location are an ongoing problem for Android users. This guide can help you identify and remove common surveillance apps from your Android phone, including TheTruthSpy, Cocospy and Spyic, among others. Consumer-grade spyware apps are frequently sold under the guise…
Australian Cyber Security Centre Targets Bulletproof Hosting Providers To Disrupt Cybercrime Networks
Overview The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued a detailed warning regarding Bulletproof Hosting Providers (BPH). These illicit infrastructure services play a critical role in supporting cybercrime, allowing malicious actors to conduct their operations while remaining largely undetectable. The Australian government’s growing efforts to combat cybercrime highlight the increasing difficulty for cybercriminals to maintain…
Cybercrime Threats: Top 10 Countries Targeted In 2024
Overview Cyberattacks on a country’s critical infrastructure have become a growing malicious trend globally. The surge in cybercrime threats and its growing impact on national security, businesses, and individuals has led experts to closely examine which regions face the most cyberattacks. A recent study from the World Cybercrime Index (WCI) compiled by an international team…