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Anti-Money Laundering Service AMLBot Cleans House
PRIVACY PRIVACY AMLBot, a service that helps businesses avoid transacting with cryptocurrency wallets that have been sanctioned for cybercrime activity, said an investigation published by KrebsOnSecurity last year helped it shut down three dark web services that secretly resold its technology to help cybercrooks avoid detection by anti-money laundering systems. Antinalysis, as it existed in…
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Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Ink
PRIVACY PRIVACY It’s aimed at children, but it’s a good primer. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Read More
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
PRIVACY PRIVACY This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the World Ethical Data Forum, online, October 26-28, 2022. I’m speaking at the 24th International Information Security Conference in Madrid, Spain, on November 17, 2022. The list is maintained on this page. Read More
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Mirai Botnet Targeted Wynncraft Minecraft Server, Cloudflare Reports
PRIVACY PRIVACY The multi-vector, 2.5Tbps attack consisted of UDP and TCP floods Read More
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Shein Holding Company Fined $1.9m For Not Disclosing Data Breach
PRIVACY PRIVACY The data breach saw Zoetop allegedly trying to keep the real impact of the leak quiet Read More
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Education Sector Experienced 44% Increase in Cyber-Attacks Over Last Year
PRIVACY PRIVACY An average of 2297 attacks against organizations were recorded every week Read More
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Regulating DAOs
PRIVACY PRIVACY In August, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the cryptocurrency platform Tornado Cash, a virtual currency “mixer” designed to make it harder to trace cryptocurrency transactions—and a worldwide favorite money-laundering platform. Americans are now forbidden from using it. According to the US government, Tornado Cash was sanctioned because it…
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#DTX2022: How to Scam Someone Using Social Media Phishing
PRIVACY PRIVACY Jake Moore, global cybersecurity advisor at ESET, shared at DTX Europe 2022 how he used a fake social media profile to hack employees of a company Read More
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Magniber Ransomware Adopts JavaScript to Attack Individual Users
PRIVACY PRIVACY Consumers should protect themselves by using least-privilege principles Read More
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Report Shows How China Has Been Using Cyberattacks Over the Past Decade
PRIVACY PRIVACY Consultancy firm Booz Allen has published a comprehensive report on Chinese-sponsored threat Read More