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Supreme Court seems poised to uphold age-gating law for online sexual content

16 January 2025 Source: The Record

A majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared sympathetic to a Texas law requiring online porn viewers to verify their age. Arguments in the case — Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton — centered on whether the 2023 law violates free speech by requiring everyone who attempts to access...

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Notícia sobre uma “Escola de Golpistas” demonstra a sofisticação dos crimes cibernéticos e revela desafios para o mercado segurador

15 January 2025 Source: Insurtalks Brasil

Uma matéria exibida no Fantástico e divulgada no portal G1, destacou que a polícia de São Paulo prendeu uma espécie de “professor” de uma escola online para estelionatários. O caso revelou uma rede que ensinava técnicas de fraude, comercializava dados pessoais e cartões clonados e movimentava...

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Cibercrime, o assalto ao futuro do setor financeiro

15 January 2025 Source: Jornal de Negocios Portugal

A integração da Inteligência Artificial (IA) em atividades maliciosas está a intensificar a complexidade dos ataques e a ampliar a sofisticação das ameaças no setor financeiro. Segundo Nuno Sousa, Financial Services Director da Claranet Portugal, "a evolução das tecnologias de IA e o seu uso por...

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Commission unveils action plan to protect the health sector from cyberattacks

15 January 2024 Source: European Commission

The Commission has presented an EU action plan aimed at bolstering the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers. This Action Plan was announced in President von der Leyen's political guidelines as a key priority within the first 100 days of the new mandate. The initiative is an...

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Europol and Eurojust launch phase 3 of SIRIUS project to enhance cross-border access to electronic evidence

15 January 2025 Source: Eurojust

  Building on six years of successful support to national law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and judicial authorities (JAs) in the field of electronic evidence, Europol and Eurojust launched the third phase of the SIRIUS project in January 2025. Phase 3 of the SIRIUS project will continue to assist...

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Justice Department and FBI Conduct International Operation to Delete Malware Used by China-Backed Hackers

14 January 2025 Source: US DoJ

The Justice Department and FBI today announced a multi-month law enforcement operation that, alongside international partners, deleted “PlugX” malware from thousands of infected computers worldwide. As described in court documents unsealed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a group of...

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Cyberattaques au Sénégal : une menace invisible mais bien réelle

13 January 2025 Soirce: Osiris

Le Sénégal est en proie à une vague croissante de cyberattaques qui s’attaquent directement aux fondations économiques du pays. Ces menaces, jusque-là discrètes, prennent une ampleur inquiétante et dévoilent des failles critiques dans la sécurité numérique nationale. Avec l’essor imminent des...

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UK proposes banning hospitals and schools from making ransomware payments

13 January 2025 Source: The Record

The United Kingdom proposed on Tuesday a major overhaul of how the country responds to ransomware attacks, including by banning public sector bodies from making extortion payments and requiring all victims to report incidents to the government. Ransomware attacks have risen year-on-year for the...

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Cybercriminalité au Niger : 15 personnes dont 4 femmes arrêtées pour escroquerie

11 January 2025 Source: Afrique Sur7

Au Niger, le Service inter-régional de la police judiciaire (SIRPJ) de Zinder a porté un coup dur à la cybercriminalité en démantelant un réseau de 15 escrocs qui a escroqué plus de 133 millions de francs CFA à 17 victimes. Opérant depuis fin 2022, ce réseau sophistiqué usurpait l’identité de...

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Rwanda becomes the 78th Party to the Convention on Cybercrime and accedes to the First Protocol

10 January 2025 Source: Council of Europe

On 10 January 2025, Rwanda deposited the instrument of accession to the Convention on Cybercrime (ETS 185), as well as its Additional Protocol to the Convention on cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems (ETS 189)....

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Côte d’Ivoire : 3 pôles publics de transformation digitale et de lutte contre la cybercriminalité

9 January 2025 Sorce: DigitalMag

Les pôles publics de l’économie numérique sont nombreux en Côte d’Ivoire. Quelquefois, ils donnent le sentiment de se marcher sur les pieds tant les missions se ressemblent. Sauf qu’il y a des nuances. Gros plan sur celles entre la Direction générale de la transformation numérique et de la...

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Malaysia: Cybercrime Bill to Strengthen Digital Landscape

8 January 2025 Source: Open Gov Asia

Malaysia’s National Cyber Security Agency (NACSA) is in the process of drafting a new Cybercrime Bill, which is expected to be tabled during the Third Meeting of the Fourth Session of the 15th Parliament this October. The bill aims to replace the existing Computer Crimes Act 1997, a piece of...

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Government Stepping Up Measures to Wipe Out Cybercrime

6 January 2025 Source: Thailand Public Relations Department

The Government is determined to wipe out cybercrime through tough measures and new technology, and it believes that the problem of cyber scams will be eased in 2025. Government Spokesperson Jirayu Houngsub said that cyber security programs have been installed to suppress and prevent cyber scams,...

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TikTok faces new allegations of child exploitation

4 January 2025 Source: digWatch

TikTok is under heightened scrutiny following newly unsealed allegations from a Utah lawsuit claiming the platform knowingly allowed harmful activities, including child exploitation and sexual misconduct, to persist on its livestreaming feature, TikTok Live. According to the lawsuit, TikTok...

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Myanmar's new cybercrime law will suppress information, say analysts

3 January 2025 Source: VoaNews

Myanmar's military leaders have enacted a new cybersecurity law that analysts say will provide the junta with extensive control over access to information. The expansive law — which has 16 chapters and 88 articles — includes regulations on Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, which allow internet...

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