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...
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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”...
Pwn2Own Contest Unearths Dozens of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Some of the world’s top ethical hackers are competing in Tokyo this week, having already found close to 40 zero-day...
Government Security Vulnerabilities Surge By 151%, Report Finds
The government sector has witnessed the most significant growth in crowdsourced security in 2023, marking a 151% increase in vulnerability...
North Korea Hacks Crypto: More Targets, Lower Gains
North Korea-backed threat actors hacked more crypto platforms than ever in 2023 but stole less of the digital currency in...
Data Privacy Week: US Data Breaches Surge, 2023 Sees 78% Increase in Compromises
The number of reported data compromises in the US in 2023 increased by 78% compared to 2022, reaching 3205, according...
Southern Water Confirms Data Breach Following Black Basta Claims
UK water supplier Southern Water has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after the Black Basta ransomware group appeared...
Data Privacy Week: Companies are Banning Generative AI Due to Privacy Risks
More than a quarter (27%) of organizations have banned the use of generative AI among their workforce over privacy and...
China-Aligned APT Group Blackwood Unleashes NSPX30 Implant
ESET researchers have recently unveiled a highly sophisticated implant known as NSPX30, which has been linked to a newly identified...
New Leaks Expose Web of Iranian Intelligence and Cyber Companies
New evidence shows that Iran’s intelligence and military services are associated with cyber activities targeting Western countries through their network...
Ukraine Arrests Hacker for Assisting Russian Missile Strikes
Ukrainian security services have arrested a hacker for allegedly targeting government websites and providing intelligence to Russia to carry out...
Exploit Code Released For Critical Fortra GoAnywhere Bug
Threat actors could soon strike after a proof-of-concept exploit was published for a critical vulnerability in managed file transfer (MFT)...
AI Set to Supercharge Ransomware Threat, Says NCSC
Malicious AI use will “almost certainly” drive an increase in the volume and impact of cyber-attacks over the next two...
ChatGPT Cybercrime Surge Revealed in 3000 Dark Web Posts
Security researchers have observed a notable surge in dark web discussions regarding the illicit use of ChatGPT and other Large...
X Makes Passkeys Available for US-Based Users
Social media giant X (formerly Twitter) has made passkeys available as a login option for US-based users on iOS.A post...
Browser Phishing Threats Grew 198% Last Year
Security researchers have observed a 198% increase in browser-based phishing attacks during the latter half of 2023 compared to the...
Why Bulletproof Hosting is Key to Cybercrime-as-a-Service
The emergence of cybercrime-as-a-service (RaaS) has lowered the entry barrier into cybercrime by allowing cybercriminals to specialize in only one...
Mega-Breach Database Exposes 26 Billion Records
A new 12TB database of 26 billion records has been found exposed online by security researchers, although its contents were...
Australia Sanctions Russian Hacker Behind Medibank Breach
The Australian government has publicly named a Russian cybercriminal as responsible for the Medibank data breach, which affected 9.7 million...
