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Incident Response

A pig in a muddy farm field

Pig Butchering at Heart of Bank Failure — CEO Gets 24 Years in Jail

Oink, oink, FAIL—you’re in jail: Kansas bank chief exec Shan Hanes stole money from investors, a church and others to buy cryptocurrency to feed a scam ...
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cloud security, extortion, Palo Alto, AWS

Extortion Group Exploits Cloud Misconfigurations, Targets 110,000 Domains

An unknown threat group leveraged publicly exposed environment variables in organizations' AWS accounts to exfiltrate sensitive data and demand ransoms in a wide-ranging extortion campaign that targeted 110,000 domains ...
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cyberattack, cybersecurity, AI, AI-powered attacks, AI, defense, cybersecurity,

Survey: Senior Executives Being Held More Accountable for Cybersecurity

A global survey of 1,850 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers finds more than half (51%) reporting that directors or executives have faced fines, jail time, loss of position, or loss of employment following ...
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DonkeyHotey (cc:by-sa)

Don’t Mess With Texas Privacy: AG Sues GM for $18 BILLION

KP♡TX PII: “General Motors has engaged in egregious business practices that violated Texans’ pri­vacy … in unthinkable ways,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured) ...
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North Korea

WTH? DPRK WFH Ransomware Redux: 3rd Person Charged

North Korean army of remote IT workers enabled by Matthew Isaac Knoot, alleges DoJ ...
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HPE, NDR, Androxgh0st macOS malware cracked software trojan

HPE Infuses AI Into Network Detection and Response Platform

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) this week at the Black Hat USA 2024 conference extended its network detection and response (NDR) capabilities that make use of artificial intelligence (AI) models to enable behavioral ...
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