- France: Ten people found guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron
January 5, 2026
A Paris court has found ten people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady Brigitte Macron. All defendants were handed a variety of sentences, ranging from cyberbullying awareness training to eight-month suspended prison terms. The French court pointed to “particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious” comments referring to false claims regarding alleged trans identity and alleged criminality targeting ...
- 2025 was a terrible year for the ‘Four Families’ accused of running global cyber scam operations
January 4, 2026
People traded as commodities, iron cages used for punishment, severed fingers and even human sacrifice. These grisly details, revealed during interrogations of some of Asia’s most notorious criminal magnates, expose the horror of life in the many scam factories that dot Myanmar’s rugged and lawless border with China. The suspects were alleged members of powerful crime ...
- US cyber attacks plunged Caracas into darkness
January 4, 2026
US cyber attacks cut off power to large areas of Caracas to allow planes and helicopters to strike key military sites and capture Nicolás Maduro. Cyber command, space command and other American agencies layered effects to ensure more than 150 of its planes, drones and helicopters could approach the Venezuelan capital undetected. Cyber operators blacked out ...
- Cybercrook claims to be selling infrastructure info about three major US utilities
January 2, 2026
A cybercrook claims to have breached Pickett and Associates, a Florida-based engineering firm whose clients include major US utilities, and is selling what they claim to be about 139 GB of engineering data about Tampa Electric Company, Duke Energy Florida, and American Electric Power. The price is 6.5 bitcoin, which amounts to about $585,000. Based in ...
- Business continuity isn’t keeping pace with cyber threats, warns Sedgwick CISO
January 2, 2026
Business continuity plans are lagging behind the speed and complexity of modern cyberattacks, according to Eric Schmitt (pictured), chief information security officer at Sedgwick. “In most cases, it is not,” Schmitt said, when asked whether current business continuity frameworks are adapting to today’s cyber threat environment. He drew a sharp line between business continuity and disaster ...
- Cognizant hit with multiple US class-action lawsuits after TriZetto data breach
January 2, 2026
Cognizant Technology Solutions is facing a wave of class-action lawsuits in the United States after a long-running data breach at its healthcare claims processing unit, TriZetto Provider Solutions (TPS), triggered legal challenges from affected individuals. According to court filings, at least three lawsuits were filed late last month in federal courts in New Jersey and Missouri, ...