Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:33:53 +0000
The dismantling of USAID by Elon Musk’s DOGE and a State Department funding freeze have severely disrupted efforts to help people escape forced labor camps run by criminal scammers.
Read moreMalvertisers got inspired by the website for a German university to bypass ad security and distribute malware.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:01:03 +0000
The SVG file format can harbor malicious HTML, scripts, and malware
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000
Ransomware gangs continued to wreak havoc in 2024, but new research shows that the amounts victims paid these cybercriminals fell by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Read moreValley News Live exposed more than a million job seeker’s resumes through an open AWS S3 bucket
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:09:16 +0000
The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled, English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. An investigation into the history of these communities shows their apparent co-founders quite openly operate an Internet service provider and a pair of e-commerce platforms catering to buyers and sellers on both forums.
Read more“Agentic” AI could arrive in 2025, and it may allow hackers to send individual, AI-powered agents to do their dirty work.
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Credit to Author: Mark Keierleber| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000
An investigation into more than 300 cyberattacks against US K–12 schools over the past five years shows how schools can withhold crucial details from students and parents whose data was stolen.
Read moreCredit to Author: Peter Girnus| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000
The ZDI team offers an analysis on how CVE-2025-0411, a zero-day vulnerability in 7-Zip, was actively exploited to target Ukrainian organizations in a SmokeLoader campaign involving homoglyph attacks.
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