Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Ransomware Operation Checkmate Disrupts Major Russian-Speaking Ransomware Group Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 28, 2025 The BlackSuit dark web leak site as of July 24, 2025. In a significant international effort, Operation Checkmate has dismantled BlackSuit, a ransomware group responsible for leveraging ransom demands that…
Cybercrime, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Multi-factor & Risk-based Authentication PoisonSeed Threat Actor Exploits Cross-Device Login and QR Codes to Deceive Users Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • July 19, 2025 Expel researchers have identified a novel phishing technique that circumvents FIDO2 security, a leading multifactor authentication method. (Image: Shutterstock) In a notable…
Anti-Phishing, DMARC, Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks, Fraud Management & Cybercrime State-Sponsored Groups Target Semiconductor Sector with Spear-Phishing Attacks Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • July 17, 2025 Chinese state-aligned hackers have escalated their espionage tactics against Taiwan’s semiconductor ecosystem through concentrated spear-phishing efforts. (Image: Shutterstock) Chinese state-aligned hackers are intensifying their espionage…
Cybercrime, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Governance & Risk Management Hacking Group UNC6148 Exploits OVERSTEP Rootkit to Steal Credentials, According to Google Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • July 16, 2025 A cybercrime group leveraged a backdoor in a fully patched SonicWall appliance to exfiltrate credentials and may have sold this information to…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Government Government Warns of Rising Cyber Threats Amid Geopolitical Tensions by 2030 Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • July 15, 2025 Spiking Russian cyberattacks against France are linked to its support for Ukraine and the Paris Olympics. (Image: Shutterstock) Recent assessments by the French…
AI Vulnerability Exposes Users to Deceptive Messages Through Google’s Gemini Researchers have issued a stark warning regarding a vulnerability in Google’s Gemini, a large language model, that can be exploited by attackers to deceive users via manipulated message summaries. This issue arises from the ability of malicious actors to embed…
NEW Fox News articles are now available for audio listening! Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting healthcare data. In June, significant breaches compromised over 13 million patient records, and a recent Medicare data breach has impacted more than 100,000 Americans. This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) alerted those…
Cybercrime, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Geo Focus: The United Kingdom HMRC Loses $63 Million to Fraud Utilizing Taxpayer Data Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 11, 2025 Image: Chris Dorney/Shutterstock On July 11, law enforcement apprehended 13 suspects in Romania and one in England as part of a broad investigation…
AI-Based Attacks, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Fraud Management & Cybercrime Evan Reiser, CEO of Abnormal AI, Speaks on Personalized Phishing Training and Behavioral Anomalies Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • July 10, 2025 Evan Reiser, Co-founder and CEO of Abnormal AI (Image: Abnormal AI) Evan Reiser, CEO of Abnormal AI, which…
