Fake North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate Western Firms, Demand Ransom

North Korean hackers are infiltrating Western companies using fraudulent IT workers to steal sensitive data and extort ransom.…

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Hong Kong Crime Ring Swindles Victims Out of $46M

The scammers used real-time deepfakes in online dating video calls to convince the victims of their legitimacy.

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Be Aware of These Eight Underrated Phishing Techniques

There are a number of lesser-known phishing techniques that are often overlooked or underestimated yet increasingly being employed by attackers.

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Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers’ cloud products

Missing logs could make it more difficult to identify unauthorized access to the customers’ networks during that two-week window.

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Feds arrest man who allegedly participated in hack of the SEC’s X account, boosting Bitcoin’s price

Eric Council Jr. and unnamed co-conspirators were allegedly behind the hack of the official @SECGov account on X.

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Number of Active Ransomware Groups Highest on Record, Cyberint’s Report Finds

This indicates that the most prominent ransomware groups are succumbing to law enforcement takedowns, according to researchers from Cyberint.

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4 Ways to Address Zero-Days in AI/ML Security

As the unique challenges of AI zero-days emerge, the approach to managing the accompanying risks needs to follow traditional security best practices but be adapted for AI.

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Russian RomCom Attacks Target Ukrainian Government with New SingleCamper RAT Variant

The Russian threat actor known as RomCom has been linked to a new wave of cyber attacks aimed at Ukrainian government agencies and unknown Polish entities since at least late 2023.
The intrusions are characterized by the use of a variant of the RomCom RAT dubbed SingleCamper (aka SnipBot or RomCom 5.0), said Cisco Talos, which is monitoring the activity cluster under the moniker UAT-5647.
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