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Ransom Cartel Creator Sentenced to 16 Years: What Website Owners Should Learn

A federal judge has sentenced the creator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware-as-a-service operation to 16 years in prison, underscoring the real-world consequences of running extortion schemes that targeted companies across multiple U.S. states and abroad.

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Frontier AI Vulnerability Discovery and What Open-Source Maintainers Should Do

A new wave of autonomous AI tooling is finding thousands of previously unreported flaws in open-source projects, shrinking the time defenders have to react and raising the bar for website owners.

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Access and Edit WordPress Files in MyKinsta Without an FTP Client

A hands-on guide to opening, editing, uploading, and organising WordPress files directly from the MyKinsta dashboard, with practical notes on backups, binary files, and activity tracking.

Illustration of a cracked padlock on a server rack with data streams escaping, representing repeat ransomware extortion

Ransomware Re-Extortion: Why Paying Doesn't End the Attack

Fresh Proofpoint survey data shows that paying a ransom rarely ends the story, with repeat extortion hitting victims even after the first payment clears.