Infosecurity News

  1. Russia's Ukraine War Drives 62% Slump in Stolen Cards

    Mobilization, migration and infrastructure issues hit fraudsters hard

  2. GDPR Fines Surge 168% in a Year

    Financial penalties top $3bn but incident volumes fall

  3. Initial Access Broker Activity Doubles in a Year

    US networks are most sought-after by cyber-criminals

  4. US to Launch Third Iteration of 'Hack the Pentagon' Bug Bounty Program

    Cybersecurity researchers will try and find vulnerabilities in the government's FRCS network

  5. CircleCI Confirms Data Breach Was Caused By Infostealer on Employee Laptop

    According to CTO Rob Zuber, the malware was not detected by the CircleCI antivirus program

  6. Qbot Overtakes Emotet in December 2022's Most Wanted Malware List

    The findings come from Check Point Software's latest Global Threat Index report

  7. Hackers Hijack NortonLifeLock Customer Accounts

    Thousands reportedly suffer compromise after possible credential stuffing campaign

  8. US Court Orders $17m Be Given to BitConnect Victims

    Firm essentially operated as a Ponzi scheme

  9. TikTok Fined Over $5m for Cookie Violations

    French regulator says social network broke its data protection law

  10. Pro-Russian Hacktivist Group Targets Czech Presidential Election

    The group used Telegram channels, a DDoS payment program, a multi-OS supported toolkit and GitHub

  11. Russian Hackers Try to Bypass ChatGPT's Restrictions For Malicious Purposes

    Hackers discussed how to use stolen payment cards and bypass geo controls and SMS limitations

  12. Cisco Warns of Critical Vulnerability in End-of-Life Routers

    Cisco did not release updates to address the vulnerabilities and no workarounds address them

  13. Royal Mail's Attackers Linked to Russia-Backed LockBit

    The ransomware gang allegedly used its latest encryptor, ‘Black,’ which borrows parts of the late Black Matter group’s encryptor

  14. Euro Police Bust Multimillion-Dollar Crypto Fraud Gang

    Criminal network may have made hundreds of millions from scams

  15. Illegal Crypto Transaction Volumes Hit All-Time High

    Sanctioned entities accounted for the largest volume

  16. Millions of Insurance Customers Compromised Via Supplier

    Aflac and Zurich reveal major breaches this week

  17. The Guardian Confirms UK Staff Data Was Accessed in Ransomware Attack

    The updates come from The Guardian's CEO Anna Bateson and its editor-in-chief Katharine Viner

  18. Telegram Bot Abuse For Phishing Increased By 800% in 2022

    The growth is associated with using HTML attachments as a delivery method in credential phishing

  19. Cyber-Threat Actors Tailoring Attacks to Key Sectors

    Darktrace’s latest report analyses findings from the energy, retail and healthcare sectors

  20. Google Chrome 'SymStealer' Vulnerability Could Affect 2.5 Billion Users

    The warning comes from Imperva's security researcher Ron Masas

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