Cybercrime
Cybersecurity firm Human has discovered and disrupted a mobile ad fraud campaign involving 89 mobile applications with a total download count of 13 million.
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Fraud & Identity Theft
Tech support scammers are using sponsored ads and search parameter injection to trick users into calling them.
Artificial Intelligence
Fake college enrollments have been surging as crime rings deploy “ghost students” — chatbots that join online classrooms and stay just long enough to...
Fraud & Identity Theft
Security researchers flag two phishing campaigns abusing Firebase and Google Apps Script to host malware and fake login pages.
Cybercrime
The US Treasury Department US has slapped sanctions on Funnull Technology for providing support to cryptocurrency investment scams.
Application Security
The Ukrainian government says it is bracing to deal with “massive cyberattacks” from Russian hackers against critical infrastructure targets in the energy sector.
Cybercrime
Ukrainian authorities take down cybercrime group that hacked 30 million accountsUkrainian authorities say they have taken down a pro-Russia hacking group that compromised user...
Application Security
Endpoint detection and response pioneer CrowdStrike is elbowing its way into new security markets with a planned acquisition of attack surface management startup Reposify...
Application Security
Ride-hailing giant Uber is moving quickly to downplay the impact from a devastating security breach that included the theft of employee credentials, access to...
Application Security
Security Operations Center (SOC) infrastructure start-up Cyrebro this week announced that it has banked $40 million in Series C funding, bringing the total raised...
Application Security
The non-profit Rust Foundation has scored funding to build a dedicated security team to proactively identify and address security defects in the popular Rust...
Application Security
Silicon Valley late-stage startup Fortanix has banked $90 million in new capital to boost its place in the confidential computing and data protection marketplace.
Cybercrime
The FBI has observed an increase in attacks targeting healthcare payment processors in an effort to divert significant amounts of money to accounts controlled...
Application Security
Just four months after emerging from stealth with $11 million in seed funding, Dig Security has banked an additional $34 million in venture capital...
Application Security
Microsoft on Tuesday warned that its security teams have detected zero-day exploitation of a critical vulnerability in its flagship Windows platform.
Application Security
Software maker Adobe has rolled out security fixes for at least 63 security vulnerabilities in a wide range of widely deployed Windows and macOS...
Application Security
Israeli startup Opus Security has banked $10 million in seed round funding to build technology for cloud security orchestration and remediation.Opus Security said the...
Application Security
Apple’s security response engine revved into high gear Monday with patches for security defects in a wide range of products, including fixes for a...
Artificial Intelligence
Coming to a global consensus on what makes for ethical AI will be difficult. Ethics is in the eye of the beholder.
Application Security
Microsoft has published an analysis of the ransomware attacks associated with a subgroup of the Iran-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) actor Phosphorus.
Application Security
Multiple Iranian hacking groups participated in a recent cyberattack targeting the Albanian government, according to new data from Microsoft's security research and response teams.
Application Security
Managed detection and response (MDR) platform provider Huntress on Thursday announced the closing of a $40 million debt financing round to speed up global...
Application Security
Security researchers at Rapid7 are warning about multiple secuirty vulnerabilities impacting Baxter’s Sigma Spectrum infusion pumps, including issues that could lead to the leakage...
Application Security
Cymulate, a late-stage Israeli startup in the breach and attack simulation space, has closed a $70 million Series D funding round led by existing...
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