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A man convicted of murder 37 years ago has the right to be forgotten and have his name removed from online search results, Germany's highest court ruled. [Read More]
Kilos is a new dark web search engine that goes where Google doesn't and works by searching through multiple dark web markets for specified products. [Read More]
Google sent out over 12,000 state-sponsored phishing warnings to users in 149 countries in the third quarter of 2019. [Read More]
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit announced that hackers managed to steal $49 million in Ethereum. [Read More]
On The Border informs customers that a payment processing system used by its restaurants was infected with malware for several months. [Read More]
Russian and Chinese spies repeatedly targeted the Czech state last year, the country's intelligence service (BIS) said in its 2018 report published Tuesday, detailing cyber-attacks and disinformation. [Read More]
A recently discovered Android banking Trojan that features a narrow target list and two-step overlays is capable of stealing both login credentials and credit card data. [Read More]
A Chinese woman who stirred fears of espionage when she entered President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort carrying multiple mobile phones and a malware-spiked thumb drive was sentenced to eight months in prison. [Read More]
A recently discovered technique allows ransomware to encrypt files on Windows-based systems without being detected by existing anti-ransomware products, Nyotron security researchers warn. [Read More]
At least 160 Church’s Chicken restaurants across 11 U.S. states are impacted by a data breach that involved unauthorized access to payment processing systems. [Read More]
FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Cybercrime
The origin story of Mimikatz — a post-exploitation module that has enabled criminals to steal millions of passwords around the world — reads like an over-the-top spy thriller.
The abundance of compromised card data and other assets available online continues to hinder the fight against card-not-present (CNP) fraud.
Cybercriminals rely on tried and trusted methods for phishing; as long as there is even a four percent chance that phishing techniques will be successful, they will continue to use them.
The current state of automated teller machine (ATM) security is far from optimal, but the unique security challenges around ATMs make improvements difficult.
Against the ongoing backdrop of cyber conflict between nation states and escalating warnings from the Department of Homeland Security, critical infrastructure is becoming a central target for threat actors.
There have been so many high-profile breaches that a person’s entire life could be laid out, triangulated and, ultimately, faked by someone with the wrong set of intentions.
“Evasive phishing" is not a term much heard, but we all will—and need to—start talking a lot more about it than we have in the past.
BEC is becoming increasingly profitable for threat actors as organizations are making it easy for adversaries to gain access to the valuable information that sits within these inboxes.
We should be thinking about how users work, what they do and how it affects the security posture of the business, but does security really start with them?
As we continue to gear up for an increase in shopping this holiday season, remember that attackers continue to innovate and update their training and skills regularly.
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