A North Korean cyberespionage group is posing as job recruiters and targeting aerospace and energy sector employees with lucrative job offers, according to Mandiant. The hackers use email and WhatsApp messages to lure victims into clicking a link that deploys backdoor malware onto their devices.
BlackCloak’s $17 million Series B funding round will help the company triple its engineering and product teams, enhancing cybersecurity for executives and high-net-worth individuals. The funding will help BlackCloak address emerging issues such as deepfakes and threat intelligence and modeling.
The demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals, coupled with the rise in remote work, has led to an increase in fraudulent job postings targeting tech-savvy individuals. Learn why this is so and how to protect yourself from deceptive schemes as you pursue a job in cybersecurity.
In an era where cyber threats evolve at an unprecedented pace, AI emerges as the ultimate cybersecurity “Swiss Army Knife.” With AI, your security operations become proactively fortified, turning defenses into an intelligent, adaptive, and resilient force against the next generation of cyber attacks.
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Giving customers more flexibility in instant payment systems could give users more control over their transactions and help fight scammers. An option to delay payments could introduce the needed friction to stop fraudulent payments, said fraud experts Eva Velasquez and Ken Palla.
This week, ICANN warned of phishing, BreachForums data was leaked, police arrested alleged pro-Russian hackers, the U.K shut down a DDoS booter site, the EU gave Meta a deadline, Russia decried U.S. sanctions, Verizon settled on breaches, and Windows 10 security support will end in October 2025.
Phishing hackers have developed a new technique for smuggling malware past secure email gateway defenses, said researchers at Cofense who uncovered a recent info stealer campaign. "I honestly think that it was someone testing the water to see if it would work - and it did work," a researcher said.
Cybercriminals are exploiting the chaos created by the CrowdStrike outage by launching fake websites and phishing campaigns to trick victims into downloading malware or divulging sensitive information, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and others experts.
As the investigation of the attempted assassination of former President Trump unfolds, authorities and cybersecurity experts advise individuals and organizations to beware of online threats in the forms of physical violence, nation-state disinformation and cybercrime campaigns.
Like security practitioners, cybercriminals want AI too. But in the AI-versus-AI cyber battle, the barrier for malicious actors "keeps getting lower and lower, while the barrier for defenders is getting more complex and more difficult," said Rick Holland, field CISO, ReliaQuest.
From account takeover threats to fake investment schemes, it doesn't take much time on social media to stumble upon a scam. But if you try to report these bad actors to social platforms such as Facebook, you may have a hard time doing so. On Facebook, "scam" or "fraud" aren't reporting options.
Spanish National Police have arrested a 22-year-old British national based on an International Arrest Warrant from the U.S. that accuses him of stealing bitcoins worth $27 million. Reports suggest the suspect is a key member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group that hacked MGM and Clorox.
Theresa Lanowitz, head of evangelism and research at AT&T Cybersecurity, discusses key insights from the latest cybersecurity report. Security leaders need balanced investing, more internal collaboration and better preparation for potential cyberthreats to improve enterprise security, she said.
Cybercriminals launched 7.78 million attacks against U.K. businesses and nearly 1 million against charity organizations, according to the latest U.K. government survey report. But fewer than half of those firms reported the incidents to authorities, something researchers say is a concerning trend.
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