Man pleads guilty to fraud and laundering cryptocurrency now worth €200,000
Suleman Mazhar (43) faces prospect of jail for a series of cybercrime offences
Cyber Crime Bureau
Ireland faces far greater cyberattack risk over next two years, security centre warns
‘Significantly heightened geopolitical risk’ multiplies likelihood of danger as plan outlining how cyber threats will be declared, managed and co-ordinated is published
Almost a quarter of six year olds have their own smartphone, survey finds
Majority of parents concerned about online safety of their children, CyberSafeKids finds
PSNI data leak: How big is the breach and how did it happen?
Total of 40 police service staff also revealed to be based at British secret service’s Northern Ireland HQ in Holywood, Co Down
Social Capital: Life Online in the Shadow of Ireland’s Tech Boom - caught in the web
Some excellent insights and details, but work let down by limp editing
Public to be warned about potential scams due to ‘frightening’ advances in AI
National Cyber Security Centre is to draw up advice for the public around artificial intelligence
How the HSE cyber attack changed the face of online crime globally
The biggest attack on a health system anywhere hastened the demise of the Conti group of hackers
MTU says social media firms have helped prevent publication of stolen data
Court extends injunction on material being sold or published by hackers
Revolut users fall victim to convincing scam text message
Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman dealing with surge in complaints linked to payments app
Munster Technological University data leak includes big quantity of staff and student details
Over six gigabytes of files, including financial information, uploaded by criminal hacker group
Munster Technological University cyberattack the work of sophisticated ransomware group
The BlackCat gang is the latest player in the lucrative Ransomware as a Service market
‘There’s a lot of hostility online’: How students are trying to make the internet a safer place
Teenage ambassadors for Safer Internet Day are educating classmates on the importance of empathy and respect online
Lack of online supervision for children must be addressed, charity says
Fewer than one in five young people prevented by parents from having online access in bedrooms, CyberSafeKids finds
Irish neutrality is ‘over’ and Defence Forces are ‘vulnerable’, Finnish military expert claims
Lieut Gen Esa Pulkkinen urges investment in Republic’s Air Corps, Naval Service and cyber defence
State must focus on preventative measures to stop future cyberattacks
Having been badly caught in a ransomware attack on the HSE, Ireland needs to up its cybersecurity game
‘We hacked the hackers’: Gardaí part of international police operation to thwart cyber crime group
Firms based in Ireland were given ‘decryption keys’ by police to allow them frustrate ransomware attacks
Man (40) remanded in custody for alleged cybercrime offences
Suleman Mazhar charged with a total of six theft, fraud and money laundering offences
Two held via Garda cybercrime investigation with FBI
During Cork operation a 40-year-old man and 42-year-old woman arrested
Rehab Group falls victim to cyber attack
Disability services provider notifies Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) of attack
The Irish Times on cybersecurity: Taking the threat seriously
All State agencies must finance digital systems and security expertise needed to deal with cyber threats
US sends Garda medical data stolen in May cyberattack
HSE still monitoring dark web and elsewhere but no sign data used for ‘criminal purposes’
Gardaí seize infrastructure from HSE cyber attack gang
Operation led by Garda believed to have prevented more than 750 ransomware hacks
Policing Authority doubts Garda’s ability to reform
Lack of strategic workforce plan affecting specialist investigative units, report says
Q&A: What do I do if scammers contact me after the HSE cyber attack?
Gardaí warn fraudsters may contact public asking for money to secure hospital care
Cyberattack: Years of fraud, extortion attempts could follow if HSE data published, gardaí fear
Publication of data on darknet as threatened by gang appears inevitable, gardaí say
Patient files online ‘very likely’ shared by gang targeting HSE
Gardaí caution against assuming link between HSE cyberattack and call to Tipperary patient
Garda can now send data to EU police agency for decryption
Tackling criminals’ use of technology is ‘an international effort’, Garda says
Covid-19 pandemic impacting Garda mental health, new figures suggest
Garda’s internal 24-hour helpline sees highest increase in calls last year
Dubliner charged with harassing journalists remanded in custody
Brendan Doolin (38) faces allegations of online harassment of four women
Gardaí raid Irish office of failed German payments group Wirecard
Irish offices were raided as part of an international fraud investigation
EU hacking operation ‘like having an inside person in every top organised crime group’
Electronic decryption and methods will benefit Garda hugely
Over 200 gardaí begin cybercrime training to speed up online child abuse investigations
‘First responder’ gardaí will be trained to identify and seize digital evidence
Huge rise in reports of online child abuse imagery
Six per cent of images depict torture or bestiality
Garda needs new technology for online child abuse investigations
Forensic analysis of encrypted and damaged devices stymied by scientific limitations
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