Infostealers fueled cyberattacks and snagged 2.1B credentials last year
Inexpensive information-stealing malware surged in 2024, infecting 23 million hosts, according to Flashpoint.
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The logo of X, formerly known as Twitter, is displayed on a smart phone screen. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Privacy Former Twitter executives: Privacy and security practices deteriorated under Musk
Former employees say Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter may have caused the company to violate a consent order with the FTC.
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WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 23: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Privacy Five brutal hours for TikTok: CEO raked over coals amid privacy, security concerns
TikTok came to win hearts and minds with technology and reason. It lost.
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Facebook’s Meta logo. (Photo illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images) Technology Powerful Meta large language model widely available online
On Friday, a link to download LLaMA was posted to 4chan and quickly proliferated across the internet.
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National Security Agency (NSA) Director and U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Paul Nakasone testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 10, 2022 (Photo by: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Government NSA director urges Congress to renew controversial intelligence authority
NSA Director Paul Nakasone said Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has saved lives as he pressed for its renewal.
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(Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Geopolitics Russia’s war on Ukraine making life difficult for Russian cybercriminals
Flashpoint says international sanctions and a string of law enforcement actions are causing trouble for criminals to cash out.
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(Via Europol, April, 12, 2022) Government Justice Department seizes major cybercrime spot RaidForums
RaidForums boasted at one point of having close to 10 billion pieces of PII for sale, making it one of the biggest destinations for cybercriminals.
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A police vehicle in Munich in February during the city’s annual Security Conference. (Photo by Alexandra Beier/Getty Images) Threats Hydra market’s servers, $25M in bitcoin seized by German police in dark web sting
Narcotics trafficking and money laundering were the main business for Hydra, which researchers say was the largest dark-web market.
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(Getty Images) Threats For Magecart groups and other credit-card skimmers, old and new opportunities abound
The entry points for Magecart and other e-commerce skimmers are changing, but the attackers are getting more clever, too.
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A cutout of an Israeli soldier is seen behind signs pointing out distances to different cities at an army post in Mount Bental in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on November 28, 2020. (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images) Threats Ransomware isn’t always about gangs making money. Sometimes it’s about nations manufacturing mayhem.
Iran and perhaps China seem to have moved into the game of disruptive ransomware attacks.