Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are ongoing. As AI advances, so do the techniques and sophistication of cybercriminals. Cybersecurity defenses need to be able to keep up with the latest threats. “Given its potential uses,” says William Dixon, Head of Operations in the Center for Cybersecurity of the World Economic Read more…
Getting into your Office 365 is a veritable gold mine for attackers and they know it. The number of phishing attacks by scammers has increased by nearly 200% in a single quarter. Access to an Office 365 account allows an attacker to email malware, steal stored data, and gain access to OneDrive Read more…
Win32/StealthFalcon, named after the sophisticated Stealth Falcon state-sponsored cyber espionage hacker group, is a malware that sends collected stolen data to its remote command-and-control servers via Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). BITS is commonly used in software updates for Windows 10, messengers, and other background applications. Win32/StealthFalcon can also Read more…
The Wall Street journal has reported the first ever AI-based voice fraud. Due to ongoing investigations, the victims’ names are not being released, despite the incident occurring back in March. Voice fishing, also called Vishing, now joins fake text and deepfake video as rising crimes. The fraudsters utilized commercially available Read more…
The commerce giant Walmart has taken the first step toward a patent and filed an application entitled “Cloning Drones Using Blockchain”. The application was filed in January 2019 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and published on August 1. The patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) blockchain-based Read more…
Newly published details provide a detailed look at a well-orchestrated and well-funded attack on the crypto currency exchange Coinbase. Several employees back in May received an email from Gregory Harris, an administrator at the University of Cambridge requesting the assistance of the recipients. Nothing about the email appeared alarming. On June Read more…
“An unidentified individual has threatened and harassed us, demanding 300 BTC in exchange for withholding 10,000 photos that bear similarity to Binance KYC data,” said Binance in an official statement. Binance also said that the company has refused the payment and is still investigating the attack, but several photos of people Read more…
The Wall Street Journal has reported that federal regulators were “greeted warily” at the Richmond, Virginia-based Amazon Web Services data center back in April. The regulators were assigned an Amazon-appointed chaperone and received only limited access to internal data. Since then, federal oversight of the cloud industry has continued. According Read more…
Office 365 administrators are the latest target for cybercriminal phishing. A mix of fake log-in alerts and copycat log in screen are phishing for credentials, relying on the IT users’ urgency to fix critical issues to gain access. Access to admin accounts are hacker gold, allowing for a greater range of impact, Read more…
Synology, a Taiwan-based storage vendor, has notified users that several network attached storage devices (NAS) were encrypted by ransomware. NAS units are used to store terabytes of data by both home and small-business users. Attackers recently obtained Synology device admin credentials via brute-force attacks where massive volumes of possible passwords Read more…