Banks and health-care providers saw their services disrupted and TV broadcasters went offline as businesses worldwide grappled with the ongoing outage. Air travel has been hit hard, too, with planes grounded and services delayed.
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Iranian Hackers Deploy New BugSleep Backdoor in Middle East Cyber Attacks
“These compromised accounts serve as valuable resources, enabling the group to enhance the credibility and effectiveness of their spear-phishing efforts, establish persistence within targeted organizations, and evade detection by blending in with legitimate network traffic.”
How to Identify and Protect Against Phishing Attacks
Data brokers collect your personal information from various sources and compile detailed profiles. That’s why cybercriminals love data brokers. They hoard your info from everywhere: public records (voter rolls, property ownership), online stuff (browsing history, social media profiles, newsletter signups), and even commercial sources (loyalty programs, purchases). This intel helps them craft compelling and realistic phishing scams or impersonate you or trusted sources to steal private info or money.
Evolution of Cybercrime Investigations
Cybercrime costs trillions, rising yearly. Criminals operate globally, teaching their methods. This article explores major cyberattacks from 1962 to 2024 and how investigators use advanced technology to combat them.
How to stay safe from cybercriminal “quishing” attacks | TechRadar
Phishing works so well because it relies on hacking the human psyche. We want to trust the stories we’re told – especially if they’re told by ostensibly trustworthy organizations or individuals. This is an admirable, but highly exploitable, trait. As technologies evolve, threat actors are continually refining the methods they use to take advantage of trusting end-users.
The evolution of phishing: vishing & quishing | TechRadar
The reconnaissance phase at the beginning of an attack plays an even more important role in the defense strategy.
SecurityWeek: AT&T Data Breach: ‘Nearly All’ Wireless Customers Exposed in Massive Hack
AT&T on Friday said almost all its wireless subscribers were exposed in a massive hack that occurred between April 14 and April 25, 2024, where a hacker exfiltrated files containing “records of customer call and text interactions” between approximately May 1 and October 31, 2022, as well as on January 2, 2023.
Alabama education department still impacted by thwarted ransomware intrusion | SC Media
More ransomware news. Education and Health Care sectors seem to be popular targets lately. https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/alabama-education-department-still-impacted-by-thwarted-ransomware-intrusion