New Research Warns About Weak Offboarding Management and Insider Risks
A recent study by Wing Security found that 63% of businesses may have former employees with access to organizational data, and that automating SaaS Security…
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U.S. Sentences 31-Year-Old to 10 Years for Laundering $4.5M in Email Scams
May 29, 2024NewsroomCybercrime / Cybersecurity The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has sentenced a 31-year-old to 10 years in prison for laundering more than $4.5…
Microsoft Uncovers ‘Moonstone Sleet’ — New North Korean Hacker Group
A never-before-seen North Korean threat actor codenamed Moonstone Sleet has been attributed as behind cyber attacks targeting individuals and organizations in the software and information…
BreachForums Returns Just Weeks After FBI Seizure
May 29, 2024NewsroomCyber Crime / Data Breach The online criminal bazaar BreachForums has been resurrected merely two weeks after a U.S.-led coordinated law enforcement action…
Indian National Pleads Guilty to $37 Million Cryptocurrency Theft Scheme
An Indian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. over charges of stealing more than $37 million by setting up a website that impersonated the…
4-Step Approach to Mapping and Securing Your Organization’s Most Critical Assets
You’re probably familiar with the term “critical assets”. These are the technology assets within your company’s IT infrastructure that are essential to the functioning of…
Researchers Warn of CatDDoS Botnet and DNSBomb DDoS Attack Technique
The threat actors behind the CatDDoS malware botnet have exploited over 80 known security flaws in various software over the past three months to infiltrate…
TP-Link Gaming Router Vulnerability Exposes Users to Remote Code Attacks
May 28, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Network Security A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the TP-Link Archer C5400X gaming router that could lead to remote…
WordPress Plugin Exploited to Steal Credit Card Data from E-commerce Sites
May 28, 2024NewsroomData Protection / Skimming Unknown threat actors are abusing lesser-known code snippet plugins for WordPress to insert malicious PHP code in victim sites…
Moroccan Cybercrime Group Steals Up to $100K Daily Through Gift Card Fraud
Microsoft is calling attention to a Morocco-based cybercrime group dubbed Storm-0539 that’s behind gift card fraud and theft through highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing…
The Dark Side of Phishing Protection
May 27, 2024The Hacker NewsEmail Security / Browser Security The transition to the cloud, poor password hygiene and the evolution in webpage technologies have all…
Cloudflare Workers, HTML Smuggling, GenAI
Cybersecurity researchers are alerting of phishing campaigns that abuse Cloudflare Workers to serve phishing sites that are used to harvest users’ credentials associated with Microsoft,…