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In its latest security report, Meta says it removed 2M+ accounts this year connected to pig butchering scams conducted from Southeast Asia and the UAE (therecord.media)
1 day ago Asia Southeast Asia

A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed (therecord.media)
2 days ago

An Ohio man is sentenced to three years for running crypto mixer Helix, which laundered $311M+ from 2014 to 2017; he must forfeit $311M+ and assets worth $400M+ (therecord.media)
7 days ago Asset

How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub, going under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools, as authorities carry out thousands of operations since 2021 (therecord.media)
9 days ago Italy

The Biden admin unveils proposed rules for restricting the transfer of US citizens' sensitive data, including biometric and genomic info, to adversarial nations (therecord.media)
2024-10-22

UK-based Sophos plans to acquire Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Secureworks for ~$859M, expected to close in early 2025; Dell owns ~79% of Secureworks (therecord.media)
2024-10-22

Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme orchestrated by group UNC5267 starting in 2018 (therecord.media)
2024-9-25 Korea Google

The FBI says it disrupted a botnet of “hundreds of thousands” of IoT devices worldwide last week, run by the China-linked hacking group Flax Typhoon (therecord.media)
2024-9-19 IoT China FBI

An IBM and Ponemon study of 604 organizations affected by data breaches between March 2023 and February 2024 finds the global average cost rose 10% YoY to $4.9M (therecord.media)
2024-7-31 IBM

Law enforcement officials and experts: criminal groups are shying away from large ransomware-as-a-service platforms after disruption operations and an exit scam (therecord.media)
2024-7-25

The FTC seeks info from Mastercard, JPMorgan, and six other companies related to their “surveillance pricing products” that use personal data, AI, and more (therecord.media)
2024-7-24 AI JPMorgan

Bangladesh orders a nationwide shutdown of its mobile internet amid student protests that killed dozens of people to “ensure the security of citizens” (therecord.media)
2024-7-19 Mobile Bangladesh

Q&A with FTC's Privacy and Identity Protection executive Ben Wiseman on proposed commercial surveillance rules, connected car industry's data practices, more (therecord.media)
2024-6-3

Research: Southeast Asian scam syndicates, which typically use forced labor to run online scams like pig butchering, are stealing an estimated $64B annually (therecord.media)
2024-5-15 Southeast Asia

The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so (therecord.media)
2024-4-29 IoT

Sophos researchers find “crude”, cheap ransomware tools being sold on the dark web, enabling inexperienced freelancers to easily launch attacks (therecord.media)
2024-4-19 Darknet Freelance

Palo Alto Networks alerts customers that hackers are exploiting a zero-day in its popular GlobalProtect VPN product and promises a patch by April 14 (therecord.media)
2024-4-13 VPN

Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated (therecord.media)
2024-3-28 Google

German military officer charged with spying for Russian intelligence services (therecord.media)
2024-3-21 Russia Germany Intelligence

How the Belarusian Cyber Partisans are fighting a digital war against two dictators (therecord.media)
2024-3-12

CISA forced to take two systems offline last month after Ivanti compromise (therecord.media)
2024-3-10

FBI: in 2023, Americans reported $12.5B+ in losses to online fraud, up 22% YoY; losses to investment fraud grew 38% YoY to $4.57B, with $3.94B related to crypto (therecord.media)
2024-3-7 U.S. FBI

Q&A with FBI Director Christopher Wray on taking down a GRU botnet, Volt Typhoon, critical infrastructure attacks, lessons from surveilling threat actors, more (therecord.media)
2024-3-3 FBI

France's privacy regulator says data on 33M+ people, about half the nation's population, was compromised in a cyberattack on two health insurance firms in Jan. (therecord.media)
2024-2-10 France Insurance

Legislators and privacy experts detail how the tech industry has sought to water down state privacy regulation in the US; 13 US states now have privacy laws (therecord.media)
2024-1-31

The UK NCSC releases an all-source intel assessment warning that ransomware attacks will increase in both volume and impact over the next two years due to AI (therecord.media)
2024-1-25 Intel AI

FBI warrant reveals ‘confidential source' helped AlphV/Blackcat ransomware takedown (therecord.media)
2023-12-20 FBI

The US, the UK, and Poland say state-backed Russian group APT29 has been targeting servers hosting Czech firm JetBrains' TeamCity software since September 2023 (therecord.media)
2023-12-14 Russia Poland Czech

A parliamentary report warns the UK is vulnerable to a “catastrophic ransomware attack at any moment” because of the government's failures to tackle ransomware (therecord.media)
2023-12-13

Ukraine's defense intelligence directorate claims to have hacked Russia's state tax service and that Russia has been trying to restore the service for four days (therecord.media)
2023-12-13 Russia Tax Ukraine Intelligence

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