Jeffrey Burt

Jeffrey Burt has been a journalist for more than three decades, writing about technology since 2000. He’s written for a variety of outlets, including eWEEK, The Next Platform, The Register, The New Stack, eSecurity Planet, and Channel Insider.

The DOJ shut down another "laptop farm" link to a North Korean fake IT worker scam that the country uses to illegally bring in money for its nuclear and ballistic weapons program and to steal information from unsuspecting companies in the United States and elsewhere ... Read More

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 to U.S. elections." ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 their Q2 financial report ... Read More

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 workers ... Read More

AWS details Mithra, its massive neural network graph model that runs on its internal systems and is used to identify and rank malicious domains that threaten the cloud giants systems that hold its customers' data ... Read More

National Public Data, a background check company that collects sensitive personal information, is facing a class-action legal complaint for allowing the data from 2.9 billion people to be stolen in a breach and later sold on the dark web for millions of dollars ... Read More

A novel Linux kernel exploit technique called SLUBStick has proven to be 99% successful running the kind of attacks that in the past had a success rate of about 40% and allows bad actors to take total control of a system ... Read More

Israeli hacktivist group WeRedEvils reportedly attacked Iran's Wi-Fi infrastructure, knocking out internet service in parts of the country amid growing tensions following Israel's assassination this week of a Hamas leader in Iran ... Read More

Zimperium researchers discovered a widespread and sophisticated malware campaign dubbed SMS Stealer that's being used against Android device users to steal OTPs from text messages, which can lead to account takeover and ransomware attacks ... Read More