Cybercrime
The tool, called FBot, is capable of credential harvesting for spamming attacks, and AWS, PayPal and SaaS account hijacking.
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Fraud & Identity Theft
San Francisco startup scores a Series B round to thwart money mule accounts, deep-fake identities, account takeovers and payment fraud.
Fraud & Identity Theft
The Justice Department announced indictments against 14 North Koreans for involvement in a scheme to pose as remote IT workers to violate sanctions and...
Cybercrime
Two Nigerian nationals, one in Mexico and one in North Dakota, have been charged for hacking into the systems of US tax preparation companies.
Artificial Intelligence
Google has released new technology to embed watermarks and flag AI-generated content across text, images, audio, and video.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Google launches Global Signal Exchange (GSE), an initiative aimed at fostering the sharing of online fraud and scam intelligence.
Fraud & Identity Theft
New York anti-bot firm says new investment will drive adoption of AI techniques and expand into digital account protection and media security.
Data Breaches
Global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe disclosed a data breach that affects a roughly 600,000 individuals.
Cybercrime
A Nigerian national arrested in Ghana faces charges in the US for a BEC scheme involving two charitable organizations.
Cybercrime
Authorities in 34 countries have cooperated to dismantle cyber-enabled scams as part of a six-month operation.
Data Breaches
Compromised data includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health and insurance information, and driver’s license numbers.
Data Protection
San Francisco startup gets fresh capital from Battery Ventures to compete in the crowded identity and access management space.
Compliance
British startup building biometric authentication technology has snagged $6 million in a new round of funding led by Rialto Ventures.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Colorado startup raises new capital from Updata Partners to build out its customer authentication and authorization technology.
Cloud Security
Researchers document the Wiki-Slack attack, a new technique that uses modified Wikipedia pages to target end users on Slack.
Cybercrime
Silicon Valley fraud detection startup attracts $15 million in new financing from SignalFire, Legion Capital and Rally Ventures.
Cybercrime
Since launching in 2021, Darwinium has raised $26 million to build a bot and fraud prevention platform running on the perimeter edge.
Fraud & Identity Theft
Startup with roots in the ecommerce mobile payments space raises $40 million for digital identity verification and authentication technology.
Data Breaches
In 2024 organizations informed the US government about 585 healthcare data breaches affecting a total of nearly 180 million user records.
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