Google, researchers see signs that Lighthouse text scammers disrupted after lawsuit
The phishing kit Lighthouse, which has aided text scams like those soliciting victims to pay unpaid road tolls, appears to have been hampered shortly after…
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The retail sector needs a cybersecurity talent incubator
Retail giants have a target on their backs. Hackers are picking them apart at a rate rarely seen in other industries. Louis Vuitton and Dior…
FBI calls Akira ‘top five’ ransomware variant out of 130 targeting US businesses
Federal cyber authorities shared new details Thursday about the Akira ransomware group’s techniques, the tools it uses and vulnerabilities it exploits for initial access alongside…
Washington Post confirms data on nearly 10,000 people stolen from its Oracle environment
The Washington Post said it, too, was impacted by the data theft and extortion campaign targeting Oracle E-Business Suite customers, compromising human resources data on…
Operation Endgame targets malware networks in global crackdown
In a sweeping international crackdown coordinated from Europol’s headquarters, law enforcement agencies from the United States and 10 other countries have disrupted three of the…
Congressional Dems press governors to block feds from accessing state DMV data
Forty Democratic members of the House and Senate issued a joint letter Wednesday to 19 states led by Democratic governors, urging them to block Immigrations…
Advocacy group calls on OpenAI to address Sora 2’s deepfake risks
Throughout 2024, OpenAI teased the public release of Sora, its new video generation large language model, capable of creating lifelike visuals out of user prompts.…
While White House demands deterrence, Trump shrugs
The Trump administration’s top cyber officials have emphasized the urgent need to take aggressive action to deter increasingly brazen foreign cyberattacks. Trump himself, however, has…
Google files lawsuit against Lighthouse ‘phishing for dummies’ text scammers
Google on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against pesky text message scammers — like those who flood targets with notices that they have unpaid road tolls,…
Amazon pins Cisco, Citrix zero-day attacks to APT group
Amazon’s threat intelligence team said it observed an advanced persistent threat group exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Identity Service Engine and Citrix NetScaler products before…
Maryland man faces federal charges for crimes allegedly linked to 764
A 20-year-old Maryland man allegedly associated with violent extremist group 764 is in federal custody, facing charges for sexual exploitation of children, online coercement and…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 63 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day
Microsoft addressed 63 vulnerabilities affecting its underlying systems and core products, including one actively exploited zero-day, the company said in its latest monthly security update. …