Pump-and-Dump Schemes Make Crypto Fraudsters $240m
Market manipulators may have made over $240m last year by artificially inflating the value of Ethereum tokens, according to Chainalysis.The...
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Google’s Bazel Exposed to Command Injection Threat
Security researchers have recently unearthed a supply-chain vulnerability within Bazel, one of Google’s flagship open-source products. The flaw centered around a...
City Cyber Taskforce Launches to Secure Corporate Finance
Two of the UK’s leading accounting and security bodies are teaming up with others to launch a new taskforce today...
US Sanctions Egyptian IT Experts Aiding ISIS in Cybersecurity
The US government has announced sanctions against two Egyptian IT experts for providing cybersecurity support and training to the terrorist...
Citibank Sued For Failing to Protect Fraud Victims
New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, yesterday launched legal action against one of America’s biggest banks for allegedly failing to...
US Senators Propose Cybersecurity Agriculture Bill
A new bipartisan bill proposed by two US Senators looks to bolster the cybersecurity of the food and agriculture sector....
Pawn Storm’s Stealthy Net-NTLMv2 Assault Revealed
Pawn Storm, an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor also known as APT28, has been targeting high-value entities globally, employing a...
EU Launches First Cybersecurity Certification for Digital Products
The EU has adopted its first Cybersecurity Certification scheme as part of efforts to boost cybersecurity of IT products and...
Sysdig Report Exposes 91% Failure in Runtime Scans
A substantial 91% of runtime scans are failing within organizations, signaling a significant reliance on identifying issues rather than preventing...
Ransomware Incidents Hit Record High, But Law Enforcement Takedowns Slow Growth
Ransomware incidents surged by 68% in 2023 to reach a record high, according to new data from Corvus Insurance. However,...
FBI: Scammers Are Sending Couriers to Collect Cash From Victims
The FBI has claimed $55m were lost from May to December 2023 to scammers posing as representatives of the government,...
UK House of Lords Calls For Legislation on Facial Recognition Tech
The UK parliament’s upper chamber has said it is “deeply concerned” about unaccountable police use of live facial recognition (LFR)...
Schneider Electric Confirms Data Accessed in Ransomware Attack
Energy firm Schneider Electric has revealed it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, leading to data from its Sustainability...
Alpha Ransomware Group Launches Data Leak Site on the Dark Web
A new ransomware group called Alpha has recently emerged with the launch of its Dedicated/Data Leak Site (DLS) on the...
Orange España Breach: Dark Web Flooded With Operator Credentials
Security researchers have uncovered the presence of hundreds of network operators’ credentials circulating on the dark web in the aftermath of...
Rust Payloads Exploiting Ivanti Zero-Days Linked to Sophisticated Sliver Toolkit
Payloads recently found on compromised Ivanti Connect Secure appliances could be from the same, sophisticated threat actor, according to incident...
CI/CD at Risk as Exploits Released For Critical Jenkins Bug
Software developers have been told to urgently patch their Jenkins servers after exploits were published for a new critical vulnerability...
Dark Web Drugs Vendor Forfeits $150m After Guilty Plea
A prolific dark web drugs vendor has pleaded guilty and agreed to forfeit $150m, the largest single seizure ever taken...
Microsoft Provides Defense Guidance After Nation-State Compromise
Microsoft has provided new details for responders to the Russian nation-state attack that compromised its systems earlier in January, and...
US Senator Exposes NSA Purchase of Americans’ Internet Records
US Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has unveiled documents last week substantiating claims that the National Security Agency (NSA) is...
Nigerian ‘Yahoo Boys’ Behind Social Media Sextortion Surge in the US
Teenagers from Western English-speaking countries are increasingly targeted by financial sextortion attacks conducted by Nigeria-based cybercriminals, the Network Contagion Research...
Phobos Ransomware Family Expands With New FAUST Variant
Security researchers have recently uncovered a new variant of the notorious Phobos ransomware family named FAUST. Phobos, which first emerged in...
Enhancing Cloud Security: Essential Weekly Cybersecurity Tip
Introduction As we continually embrace digital transformation, Cloud services have become a pivotal part of our personal and business operations....
HPE Says SolarWinds Hackers Accessed its Emails
An infamous Russian state hacking unit compromised the cloud-based email environment of HPE and exfiltrated data from a “small percentage”...
