Industry Spotlight
WTH? DPRK WFH Ransomware Redux: 3rd Person Charged
Richi Jennings | | Andrew M., DPRK, Korea, Korean military, Korean ransomware, Matthew Isaac Knoot, North Korea, North Korean Hacking, North Korean Threat Actors, northkorea, Noth Korea, SB Blogwatch
North Korean army of remote IT workers enabled by Matthew Isaac Knoot, alleges DoJ ...
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Biden-Harris Campaign, Trump Operative Stone Also Target of Hackers
Hackers, possibly from Iran, sent phishing emails to the Biden-Harris campaign and Trump operative Roger Stone hoping to gain access into the systems of both presidential campaigns. It worked with Stone, who ...
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Trump Campaign Hack Points to Growing U.S. Election Threats
The Trump campaign is claiming a hack is the work of Iranian operatives, adding to expanding election-interference campaigns that also include China and Russia, which the federal government calls the "predominant threat ...
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Humans are Top Factor in Cloud Security: CSA Study
A study by the CSA found that the human element continues to play a key role in the top threats facing cloud computing environments, including misconfigurations, IAM, and insecurity interfaces and APIs ...
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Ransomware Attack Costs loanDepot Almost $27 Million
The January ransomware attack on loanDepot has so far cost the mortgage lender $26.9 million, including $25 million toward the possible settlement of a related class action lawsuit, company executives said in ...
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Student Devices Wiped — Mobile Guardian Hacked AGAIN
Richi Jennings | | Blackmail, cybersecurity education, Cybersecurity in education, DevOps Education, DevSecOps Education, MDM, Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Guardian, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, singapore
Hackers ate my homework: MDM software for schools is breached for second time this year—13,000 devices wiped in Singapore alone ...
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Hunters International RaaS Group Points SharpRhino at IT Workers
Hunters International, a fast-rising RaaS group, is using a typosquatting domain for the open source Angry IP Scanner tool to deliver a novel RAT malware called SharpRhino in a campaign targeting IT ...
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TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?
For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ...
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Prisoner Swap: Huge Russian Hackers Freed — Seleznev and Klyushin
Richi Jennings | | cyber attacks russia, Putin, Roman Seleznev, Russia, russia hacker, russia-based, Russian hacker, Russian hackers, Russian hacking, SB Blogwatch, Vladimir Putin, Vladislav Klyushin
Pragmatic politics: Anger as Putin gets back two notorious cybercriminals ...
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CrowdStrike Sued? — Delta Dials David Boies
Richi Jennings | | CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike incident;, Delta Airlines, falcon, SB Blogwatch
Is Delta the First of Many? Airline calls in attorneys Boies Schiller Flexner to claw back its cash ...
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