According to new data from the FTC, U.S. consumers lost $8.8 billion to online fraud in 2022, with investment scams and imposter scams topping the list, causing $3.8 billion and $2.6 billion in losses, respectively. Among the top five fraud schemes, imposter scams topped the list, followed by online shopping scams; prizes, lotteries, and sweepstakes […]
The state shipped thousands of Texas driver’s licenses to an international organized crime group in a security lapse that is still under investigation, Department of Public Safety Chief Steve McCraw said Monday.
The White House is giving all federal agencies 30 days to wipe TikTok off all government devices, as the Chinese-owned social media app comes under increasing scrutiny in Washington over security concerns.
An assessment of online shopping cart software used by e-commerce sites performed by the German cybersecurity agency found a slew of vulnerabilities, including code so old it’s no longer supported as well as vulnerable JavaScript libraries.
Proofpoint security analysts have seen changes in the TTPs used by TA569 The changes entail a rise in injection types and a switch to different payloads. The threat group has been observed repeatedly reinfecting websites that have already undergone mitigation for malicious injections. This technique is known as strobing. Researchers have published domain rules for TA569-controlled […]
Threat analysts at CYFIRMA claim that this new framework was created by former Lockbit 3.0 affiliates who are experts in anti-analysis and defense evasion, offering a robust solution in exchange for a subscription fee.
On the one-year anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the US Department of the Treasury announced a new set of sanctions against tens of entities that are allegedly helping the Kremlin, including its cyber operations.
The activity, which was detected by the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team on February 20, 2023, is also said to encompass Ecuador, Chile, and Spain, suggesting a slow expansion of the hacking group’s victimology footprint.
Nearly 200,000 new mobile banking Trojans emerged in 2022 — a 100% increase from the year before and the biggest acceleration of mobile malware development seen in the last six years.
A cyberattack on Pipefitters Local 537, a Boston-based labor union’s health fund, resulted in the loss of $6.4 million, but it does not appear that the personal information of members was stolen or compromised, union officials said.