Scam losses have rocketed past a trillion dollars a year, but a new global summit, an Interpol operation and a tech industry accord suggest the fightback is finally getting serious.
AI has supercharged cyber crime in 2026, with scams up 1,200 per cent, self-rewriting malware on the horizon, and deepfakes convincing enough to fool people on live video calls.
A Samsung-commissioned survey finds one in five UK SMEs would close within three months of a data breach, while independent reports confirm cyberattacks on small businesses surged in 2025.
Iran has turned cyberspace into a frontline, launching thousands of attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets including hospitals, government officials, and civilian phones, while flooding social media with AI-generated disinformation.
Iran-backed hacking group Handala has breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal Gmail, leaking over 300 emails in retaliation for the DOJ seizing the group's websites. The FBI is offering $10 million for information on the hackers.
A cyberattack on Intoxalock, a major US ignition interlock breathalyser provider, has left thousands of drivers stranded after the company's servers were knocked offline on 14 March 2026.
US authorities dismantled the Aisuru botnet cluster and several other criminal networks behind record-breaking DDoS attacks, but freed devices were quickly absorbed by rivals, raising hard questions about whether takedowns alone can stem the tide.
A week of massive security failures sees the FBI accidentally expose Epstein files while a privacy app leaks user habits to the world.
The Handala hacker group is blurring the lines between independent hacktivism and state-sponsored cyber warfare.
Iranian media has warned that major US tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Palantir could become targets as global conflicts expand into the digital realm.