He Pled Guilty To Blackmailing Apple. What Really Happened.
Kerem Albayrak from north London threatened to wipe 319 million accounts unless Apple gave him iTunes gift cards worth $100,000 (£76,000), BBC reported in a Dec. 2019…
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Stellar Cyber Unveils New Agentic AI Capabilities for the Human-Augmented Autonomous SOC
15 Apr Stellar Cyber Unveils New Agentic AI Capabilities for the Human-Augmented Autonomous SOC Posted at 15:07h in Blogs by Taylor Fox New automation and…
CISO Salaries In 2026: $150K to $1M; Stock Grants, Bonuses, Other Compensation
The top line on chief information security officer pay packages in 2026 is that CISOs are earning more than ever, writes Steve Morgan, founder of Cybersecurity Ventures…
Over $1 Trillion Annually Lost To Online Fraud; AI Lends A Helping Hand
For the past few years, it’s escaped no one that levels of Internet and telephone fraud have skyrocketed. TIME reports that one in four adults worldwide lost…
Anthropic’s New Mythos Agent Has Created A Stir In The Cybersecurity Market
Cybersecurity stocks could be set for a massive boost from risks tied to Anthropic’s latest advances in artificial intelligence, stemming from the limited release of its…
Cybercrime Is An Industrialized Economy
Cybercrime operates like a legitimate, profit-driven economy, writes Subhalakshmi Ganapathy, chief IT security evangelist at ManageEngine, in a BusinessWorld article. Organized groups mirror corporate structures and…
Math Problem: Cybercrime Divided By Cybersecurity
“Gartner says we are all going to spend $240 billion USD (on cybersecurity this year), but Cybersecurity Ventures says that cybercrime losses (were predicted to) hit 10.5 trillion…
Yesterday’s Cybersecurity Won’t Work For Next Generation Cloud Attacks
Why did Cybercrime Magazine meet up with Charlie Thomas, CEO at Mitiga, at RSAC Conference 2026? Because attackers will get in. Cloud, SaaS, AI, and identity sprawl…
The Sound Of Cybersecurity From RSAC Conference 2026
SoundCloud knows music… and cybersecurity. Late last year, the giant music streaming and sharing platform suffered a data breach that reportedly affected approximately 20 percent…
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends
In 2021, Nicole Perlroth wrote “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race“, a New York Times Bestseller. The book won numerous…
FAL.CON 2026: Secure The AI Revolution
Daniel Bernard, aka “DB”, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike, told Cybercrime Magazine that cybersecurity is a team sport, and that all of us at RSAC Conference…
2026 CISO Salary And Compensation Data
The 2026 CISO Report from Cybersecurity Ventures in partnership with Sophos is out, with the latest chief information security officer compensation figures from a variety of…