Cybercrime forums Cracked and Nulled seized, operators arrested
Law enforcement from Germany, Australia, Spain, Greece, Romania, Italy, France and the USA have seized and shut down Cracked and Nulled, the two largest cybercrime…
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ExtensionHound: Open-source tool for Chrome extension DNS forensics
Traditional monitoring tools reveal only traffic from the Chrome process, leaving security teams uncertain about which extension is responsible for a suspicious DNS query. ExtensionHound…
Zscaler CISO on balancing security and user convenience in hybrid work environments
In this Help Net Security interview, Sean Cordero, CISO at Zscaler, talks about securing hybrid work and the new challenges it presents to cybersecurity teams.…
89% of AI-powered APIs rely on insecure authentication mechanisms
APIs have emerged as the predominant attack surface over the past year, with AI being the biggest driver of API security risks, according to Wallarm.…
How to use Hide My Email to protect your inbox from spam
Hide My Email is a service that comes with iCloud+, Apple’s subscription-based service. It allows users to generate one-time-use or reusable email addresses that forward…
DeepSeek’s popularity exploited by malware peddlers, scammers
As US-based AI companies struggle with the news that the recently released Chinese-made open source DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model performs as well as theirs for a…
Absolute Resilience Platform updates improve resilience across endpoints
Absolute Security announced that the Absolute Resilience Platform has expanded to provide customers with integrated, resilient, and automated patch management, vulnerability scanning and remediation, workflow…
AuthID PrivacyKey protects users’ biometric identities
authID released PrivacyKey, a solution for protecting user biometric data while also avoiding all the compliance issues and risks related to biometric information storage. With…
How Lazarus Group built a cyber espionage empire
Since September 2024, SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team has been investigating Lazarus Group’s activity, uncovering key details about their infrastructure. Despite variations in payload delivery and obfuscation…
Preparing financial institutions for the next generation of cyber threats
In this Help Net Security interview, James Mirfin, SVP and Head of Risk and Identity Solutions at Visa, discusses key priorities for leaders combating fraud,…
Cybersecurity crisis in numbers – Help Net Security
The number of US data compromises in 2024 (3,158) decreased 1% compared to 2023 (3,202), 44 events away from tying a record for the number…
Only 13% of organizations fully recover data after a ransomware attack
Ransomware attacks are disrupting and undermining business operations and draining revenue streams, according to Illumio. Findings from the study reveal that 58% of organizations had…