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Ga. — The Bartow County Sheriff’s Office has issued a warning to residents after receiving multiple complaints regarding bank impersonation scams. Sheriff officials say fraudsters are using computer-generated spoof phone numbers to impersonate financial institutions and claim to be calling from bank fraud departments

The advisory arrived from CISA on August 12, 2026, and it read like most of the ones before it: patch known exploited vulnerabilities, keep offline immutable backups, and segment the network so a single infected laptop can’t become a company-wide outage. That last instruction is the one most organizations still skip. The NIST Zero Trust…

Global ransomware attacks rose 0.8% quarter-over-quarter in Q2 2026, according to Checkpoint Research’s threat intelligence report, and the group behind the current wave of attacks, Qilin, has now held the top spot for four consecutive quarters with 279 confirmed victims. A rival crew called The Gentlemen actually outpaced Qilin in June 2026, surging 62% to…

Power plants have become increasingly attractive targets for state-sponsored cyber attackers because disrupting electricity generation can create consequences far beyond a conventional data breach. A successful intrusion into a power-generation facility could disrupt operations, damage industrial equipment, compromise safety systems and potentially contribute to wider instability across the power grid.