The Gentlemen ransomware group has become the second most active gang by victim count, attracting skilled hackers with a recruitment strategy that offers affiliates 90 percent of ransoms. Security experts are investigating clues that may reveal the real identity of the group's administrator.

An Ohio man, James Strahler II, became the first person convicted under a new federal AI statute for cybercrimes involving real and AI-generated sexually explicit images. He pleaded guilty to charges including cyberstalking, producing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse, and publishing digital forgeries, with the last charge related to the Take It Down Act.