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Version 3.0.7 of the Securly Chrome Extension uses deprecated SHA-1 hashing for IWF CSAM URL matching 25,020 hashes and CIPA blocklist matching 12,352 hashes...

Measuring Onion Website Discovery and Tor Users' Interests with Honeypots

Tor enables anonymous web browsing and access to anonymous onion websites. Prior work has focused on crawling and content analysis rather than on what users actually try to access. Our honeypot approach measures engagement across onion-site categories, revealing behavioral interest rather than...

Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M

Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus , a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services. The penalties for violating Canada's anti money-laundering laws come ten months...

Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages

Some misconfigured AI chatbots are pushing people’s chats to the open web—revealing sexual prompts and conversations that include descriptions of child sexual abuse...

Europol Dismantles Kidflix With 72,000 CSAM Videos Seized in Major Operation

In one of the largest coordinated law enforcement operations, authorities have dismantled Kidflix, a streaming platform that offered child sexual abuse material CSAM. "A total of 1.8 million users worldwide logged on to the platform between April 2022 and March 2025," Europol said in a statement...

Man Jailed 24 Years for Running Dark Web CSAM Sites from Coffee Shop

Louis Donald Mendonsa, 62, was sentenced following a guilty plea for distributing child sexual abuse materials CSAM via…...

FBI Targets 764 Network: Man Faces 30 Years for Cyberstalking, CSAM

A 20-year-old Tucson man was arrested for horrific CSAM and cyberstalking linked to the dangerous online extremist group 764...

Dark Web Malware Logs Expose 3,300 Users Linked to Child Abuse Sites

An analysis of information-stealing malware logs published on the dark web has led to the discovery of thousands of consumers of child sexual abuse material CSAM, indicating how such information could be used to combat serious crimes. "Approximately 3,300 unique users were found with accounts on...

Child Exploitation and the Crypto Wars

Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation CSAE. She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explains why breaking encryption isnt the solution...

New Report: Child Sexual Abuse Content and Online Risks to Children on the Rise

Certain online risks to children are on the rise, according to a recent report from Thorn, a technology nonprofit whose mission is to build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Research shared in the Emerging Online Trends in Child Sexual Abuse 2023 report, indicates that minors are...

China’s Breach of Microsoft Cloud Email May Expose Deeper Problems

Plus: Microsoft expands access to premium security features, AI child sexual abuse material is on the rise, and Netflix’s password crackdown has its intended effect...

Fighting online censorship, or, encryption's latest surprise use-case, with Mallory Knodel: Lock and Code S04E05

Government threats to end-to-end encryption--the technology that secures your messages and shared photos and videos--have been around for decades, but the most recent threats to this technology are unique in how they intersect with a broader, sometimes-global effort to control information on the...

Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next

The company plans to expand its Communication Safety features, which aim to disrupt the sharing of child sexual abuse material at the source...

Google flags man as sex abuser after he sends photos of child to doctor

Mark noticed something was wrong with his son. His penis was hurting and appeared to be swollen. Since it was a Saturday during the pandemic, an emergency consultation was scheduled by video. So the doctor could assess the problem ahead of time, the parents were advised to send photos of their...

Europe Agrees to Adopt New NIS2 Directive Aimed at Hardening Cybersecurity

The European Parliament announced a "provisional agreement" aimed at improving cybersecurity and resilience of both public and private sector entities in the European Union. The revised directive, called "NIS2" short for network and information systems, is expected to replace the existing...

E.U. Proposes New Rules for Tech Companies to Combat Online Child Sexual Abuse

The European Commission on Wednesday proposed new regulation that would require tech companies to scan for child sexual abuse material CSAM and grooming behavior, raising worries that it could undermine end-to-end encryption E2EE. To that end, online service providers, including hosting services...

The US Saw a Spike in Child Sexual Abuse URLs in 2021

CSAM hosting in the United States rose 64 percent last year, putting the country second in the world, a new report found...

Online Safety Bill’s provisions for “legal but harmful” content described as “censor’s charter”

The UKs Online Safety Bill, a landmark piece of legislation that that aims to regulate the countrys online content, has just been introduced into Parliament after undergoing significant revisions. The bill has been in progress for about five years and its main objective is to regulate online...

What Apple Can Do Next to Fight Child Sexual Abuse

The fallout from the company's recent proposal has created a new opportunity to fix how it roots out abusive material across its devices...

11-13 year old girls most likely to be targeted by online predators

The Internet Watch Foundation IWF, a not-for-profit organization in England whose mission is "to eliminate child sexual abuse imagery online", has recently released its analysis of online predator victimology and the nature of sexual abuse media that is currently prevalent online. The scope of th...