North Korean state actors are using fake websites of foreign technology service firms to sidestep sanctions and raise funding for Kim Jong-Un regime's weapons development programs. SentinelLabs found many of these sites shared similar infrastructure, owners and locations.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services needs to take important actions to do a better job of carrying out its duties as the lead federal agency responsible for strengthening cybersecurity in the healthcare and public health sector, said a new federal watchdog agency report.
This week, Russia suspected in Balctic Sea cable sabotage, VPNs draw ransomware attackers and Swiss snail mail malware. An AI training company reported a cybertheft of $250,000 and a U.S. space firm reported a breach. Microsoft said it will pay $$$ for AI vulnerabilities and a MFA success story.
This week, sentences in FTX, Bitfinex and Helix cases, a $25.5M Thala hack, the WazirX hack and South Korea probed UpBit. U.S. lawmakers want a crackdown on Tornado. U.S. Prosecutors may scale back crypto cases. BIT Mining fined $10M and the Chinese Communist Party expelled a key blockchain figure
The U.S. government on Wednesday unsealed criminal charges against five suspected members of the "loosely organized, financially motivated cybercriminal group" Scattered Spider. The suspects have been tied to 45 attacks, disrupting businesses and stealing cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars.
Will the indictment of five alleged members of the loosely affiliated Scattered Spider cybercrime group disrupt its wider activities? The current count of known attacks tied to the group stands at over 130, but the accused have so far been tied by the FBI to only 45 of the attacks.
The Justice Department has seized PopeyeTools, a notorious cybercrime marketplace, while announcing criminal charges for three alleged operators behind the website, which generated over $1.7 million in revenue, according to a Wednesday announcement.
Criminals have been caught tapping a new type of relay attack to cash-out stolen payment cards added to legitimate digital wallets. These criminals use money mules who carry an Android device able to capture and relay NFC communications used by ATMs to and from an attacker-controlled device.
A panel of cybersecurity experts and top industry officials pushed lawmakers and the federal government to step up their defenses against escalating cyberthreats from China, citing recent high-profile examples of evidence that Beijing is increasingly targeting the U.S. with sophisticated attacks.
India's Competition Commission has fined social media conglomerate Meta over $25 million for forcing WhatsApp users to agree to a sweeping data sharing policy with other Meta platforms. The agency ordered the company to stop using users' data for online advertising on other Meta platforms.
An Oklahoma hospital quickly restored its IT systems after a ransomware attack in September, but the 62-bed hospital could not recover some data and later learned that hackers may have accessed the personal information of 133,000 people. The attack is the latest involving a small rural hospital.
Attackers wielding an emerging strain of ransomware called Helldown have been gaining a foothold in victims' networks by exploiting a previously unknown flaw in their Zyxel firewalls, security researchers warn. Zyxel has warned attackers may be using valid credentials they previously stole.
Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department, faces growing controversy over allegations of sexual misconduct after a hacker reportedly gained access to a shared file containing testimony from a woman who said she had sex with the former congressman when she was 17.
Gartner has recognized Entrust, Incode, Jumio, Socure and Sumsub as identity verification leaders amid a rise in regulatory demands and fraud prevention requirements. Identity verification was historically used for regulated onboarding in industries like banking, gambling and cryptocurrency.
A threat actor with suspected ties to Russian nation-state hackers has listed thousands of IoT devices as proxy networks within minutes of their initial compromise. A campaign that began in 2020 has so far infected 20,000 IoT devices, according to a new report by Trend Micro.
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