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What Is Smishing? Here’s How to Spot Fake Texts and Keep Your Info Safe
PRIVACY PRIVACY Your phone buzzes. You hope it’s a reply from last night’s date, but instead you get an entirely different swooping feeling: It’s an alarming SMS text alerting you about suspicious activity on your bank account and that immediate action is necessary. Take a deep breath and make sure to read the message carefully.…
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Spyware Maker Intellexa Sued by Journalist
PRIVACY PRIVACY The Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis was spied on by his own government, with a commercial spyware product called “Predator.” That product is sold by a company in North Macedonia called Cytrox, which is in turn owned by an Israeli company called Intellexa. Koukakis is suing Intellexa. The lawsuit filed by Koukakis takes aim…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: 6 Things That Matter Right Now
PRIVACY PRIVACY Topics that are top of mind for the week ending Oct. 7 | CISA puts spotlight on asset inventory and vulnerability management | Think tank does deep dive on IoT security | What’s the current state of cybersecurity? Not great | New malware cracks monthly top 10 list | And much more! 1…
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Ransomware – undeniably top of mind
PRIVACY PRIVACY A brief walk down memory lane: Ransomware is not a new threat Ransomware’s first documented attack was relatively rudimentary. It was delivered via floppy disk containing a malware program in 1989 that told its victims to pay $189 in ransom to a PO Box in Panama. Today ransomware criminals are significantly more sophisticated, thanks to…
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US Warns of Foreign Disinfo Ops Ahead of Midterms
PRIVACY PRIVACY False narratives will try to sow doubt over outcome of election Read More
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Meta Sues Chinese Devs Over WhatsApp Malware Plot
PRIVACY PRIVACY Fake apps led to account takeovers and spam campaigns Read More
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3 actions Latin American leaders must take to reduce risk of cyberattacks
PRIVACY PRIVACY We have witnessed increased cyberattacks on the Latin American region in recent days. Mexico’s President Obrador confirmed that its government has suffered what is perhaps a sensitive attack on its intelligence and armed forces. Chilean Armed Forces suffered a similar attack and its judiciary system was also compromised. The Colombian National Institute for…
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Hacker Steals Over $570m from Binance Bridge
PRIVACY PRIVACY Cypro-thieves target popular cross-chain bridging service Read More
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Guilty verdict in the Uber breach case makes personal liability real for CISOs
PRIVACY PRIVACY Yesterday, a federal jury handed down a guilty verdict to Joe Sullivan, the former CSO on charges of “obstruction of the proceedings of the Federal Trade Commission and misprision of felony in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber” according to a notice published by the Department of Justice…
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TransUnion taps behavioral analytics to aid fraud detection, curb false positives
PRIVACY PRIVACY Consumers who have used a credit card for a legitimate purchase only to have the sale rejected may be encountering a problem that costs enterprises billions of dollars a year: cybersecurity technology that is designed for fraud detection often ends up generating false positives, incorrectly sending out an alert that a transaction is…