Latest Cybercrime News
Track coach pleads guilty in federal court to tricking women into sending him nude photos
BOSTON (AP) — A former college track and field coach accused of setting up sham social media and email accounts in an attempt to trick women into sending him nude or semi-nude photos of themselves pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston, prosecutors said Tuesday. Steve Waithe,...
Bahrain government websites briefly inaccessible after cyberattack over Israel-Hamas war
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The websites of two government ministries in Bahrain briefly became inaccessible Tuesday night after a cyberattack took them down, purportedly over the island kingdom's stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. A statement posted online by a...
Kansas officials blame 5-week disruption of court system on 'sophisticated foreign cyberattack'
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Cybercriminals hacked into the Kansas court system, stole sensitive data and threatened to post it on the dark web in a ransomware attack that has hobbled access to records for more than five weeks, officials said Tuesday. The announcement of a...
Convicted sex offender found guilty of hacking jumbotron at the Jacksonville Jaguars' stadium
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A convicted child molester was found guilty Friday of hacking the jumbotron at the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium after the team learned he was a registered sex offender and fired him. A federal jury found 53-year-old Samuel Arthur Thompson, of St....
2 environmentalists who were targeted by a hacking network say the public is the real victim
NEW YORK (AP) — Two environmentalists told a federal judge Thursday that the public was the real victim of a global computer hacking campaign that targeted those fighting big oil companies to get the truth out about global warming. A climate scientist and the director of a fund...
State-sponsored online spies likely to target Australian submarine program, spy agency says
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s cooperation with the United States and Britain to develop an Australian fleet of submarines powered by U.S. nuclear technology is a likely target of state-sponsored cyberespionage, the nation’s digital spy agency said on Wednesday. The...
AP news site hit by apparent denial-of-service attack
The Associated Press news website experienced an outage that appeared to be consistent with a denial-of-service attack, a federal criminal act that involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and knock it offline. Attempting to visit the apnews.com site starting...
2 New York hospitals resume admitting emergency patients after cyberattack
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — Two New York hospitals that were hit with a cyberattack have resumed admitting emergency patients after shutting down their computer systems to investigate, hospital officials said. Ambulances were diverted from HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston and the...
Cyberattack hits 2 New York hospitals, forces ambulance diversions
KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) — Two hospitals in New York were hit with a cyberattack and are diverting patients to other facilities, hospital officials said Friday. The cyberattack affected computer systems at HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston along with Margaretville Hospital and...
Hackers attack Guatemalan government webpages in support of pro-democracy protests
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — In what Guatemalan authorities described as a national security incident, hackers affiliated with the activist group Anonymous disabled multiple government webpages Saturday. The attacks were in support of demonstrations led by Indigenous organizations in the...
