Cybercrime
A recently identified adware campaign has gathered over 9 million downloads via 111 infected applications distributed through Google Play, Trend Micro’s security researchers reveal.
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Fraud & Identity Theft
Signal has also made a security announcement: an automatic key verification feature to complement its safety number system.
Fraud & Identity Theft
The payments giant says BioCatch’s behavioral and device intelligence will help financial institutions combat account takeovers, scams and other forms of digital fraud.
Data Breaches
Hackers recently obtained non-sensitive customer information and other documents from the company.
Fraud & Identity Theft
US conducts sweeping crackdown on Southeast Asian cyberscam operations as part of what officials say is a “new theater of war”.
Cybercrime
A threat group has been targeting mobile and desktop users in Libya with malware through Facebook pages, Check Point has discovered.
Cybercrime
A former Equifax executive who sold stock a week and a half before the company announced a massive data breach was sentenced Thursday to...
Cybercrime
Two U.S. senators asked the FBI on Wednesday to explain what it has done to investigate the suspected hack by Russian intelligence of a...
Cybercrime
One day after medical testing firm Quest Diagnostics revealed that nearly 12 million of its patients had their personal and financial information exposed as...
Cybercrime
A data breach at billing collections service provider American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) could impact many of the company’s customers. One victim is medical...
Compliance
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) this week announced that it has launched a new cybersecurity division whose role is to...
Cybercrime
Facebook on Thursday said it recently disabled billions of bogus accounts set up by "bad actors" and that five percent of active accounts are...
Cybercrime
The hacking of U.S. election systems, including by foreign adversaries, is inevitable, and the real challenge is ensuring the country is resilient enough to...
Cybercrime
Canadian authorities announced last week that Defiant Tech Inc., the company that ran LeakedSource, pleaded guilty to trafficking identity information and possession of property...
Email Security
Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its 2018 Internet Crime Complaints Center (IC3). The annual report provides readers a glimpse into the...
Data Protection
The GAO Makes Recommendations to Improve Security of Taxpayer Information
Cybercrime
Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, revealed on Tuesday that hackers managed to steal over 7,000 bitcoins, worth more than $41 million.
Cybercrime
European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal marketplaces for drugs, hacking tools and financial-theft wares in raids...
Cybercrime
German police have shut down one of the world's largest illegal online markets in the so-called darkweb and arrested the three men allegedly running...
Fraud & Identity Theft
The United States this week indicted a Russian national for obtaining over $1.5 million in fraudulent tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.
Cybercrime
Recently observed attacks targeting officials within government finance authorities and representatives in several embassies in Europe abuse the legitimate TeamViewer application to gain full...
Cybercrime
The 2018 Internet Crime Report (ICR) shows that both the incidence and cost of internet crime continues to escalate. Complaints rose 14.3% from 2017...
Cybercrime
Macedonian national Djevair Ametovski was sentenced this week to 90 months in prison by United States authorities for operating an international cybercrime marketplace named...
Cybercrime
An undercover operative targeted several cybersecurity experts in an apparent effort to gather intelligence about critics of Kaspersky.
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Every leaked credential should be dead, or dying, within sixty seconds of being found. Here's a proposal to make that the default.
(Matt Honea)
Security teams must treat autonomous agents as highly privileged identities.
(Etay Maor)
For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality.
(Danelle Au)
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.
(Torsten George)
Silent patches can become exploit intelligence for attackers while leaving defenders without the context needed to prioritize risk.
(Tod Beardsley)