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Four Charged in Connection With $80m Pig Butchering Scheme
Four men have been charged with money laundering offenses linked to a major pig butchering operation Read More
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UK Plans Tough New Security Rules For Datacenters
The British government is proposing minimum mandatory requirements for datacenter security and resilience Read More
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Over 45,000 Employees Hit By Nuclear Research Lab Breach
Idaho National Laboratory says 45,000 employees had personal information compromised in data breach Read More
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Prison for man who wiped bank’s data after being fired for accessing porn in the office
A man has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after being found guilty of hacking into his former employer’s network, and causing substantial damage. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Read More
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Smashing Security podcast #352: For research purposes only
A hacker bursts the bubble of inflatable fetish fans, Hollywood celebrities unwittingly record videos in a Kremlin plot, and there’s a particularly devious WordPress-related malware campaign. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by…
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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach
On Dec. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “Rescator,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was…
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Surveillance Cameras Disguised as Clothes Hooks
This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them. Read More
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Cozy Bear Hackers Target JetBrains TeamCity Servers in Global Campaign
The FBI and CISA detected that hackers linked to the Russian foreign intelligence service (SVR) have been targeting a JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability since September 2023 Read More
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Hackers exploit Google Forms to trick users into falling for call-back phishing attack
Security researchers have discovered the latest evolution in call-back phishing campaigns. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Read More
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Approval Phishing Scams Drain $1bn of Cryptocurrency from Victims
Romance scammers have used the technique to great effect in recent years Read More