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How malicious email campaigns continue to slip through the cracks
2024-04-08 04:00

In this Help Net Security video, Josh Bartolomie, VP of Global Threat Services at Cofense, discusses how email will remain a target as long as it remains the predominant form of communication within a business. Cofense researchers have found that malicious email threats bypassing secure email gateways increased over 100% in the past year.

Canonical cracks down on crypto cons following Snap Store scam spree
2024-03-28 11:45

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U.S. Cracks Down on Predatory Spyware Firm for Targeting Officials and Journalists
2024-03-06 07:35

The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and five entities associated with the Intellexa Alliance for their role in “developing,...

Korean eggheads crack Rhysida ransomware and release free decryptor tool
2024-02-13 01:47

Some smart folks have found a way to automatically unscramble documents encrypted by the Rhysida ransomware, and used that know-how to produce and release a handy recovery tool for victims. Rhysida is a newish ransomware gang that has been around since May last year.

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute
2024-02-07 15:30

We're very familiar with the many projects in which Raspberry Pi hardware is used, from giving old computers a new lease of life through to running the animated displays so beloved by retailers. The technique was published in a YouTube video over the weekend and demonstrated how a Raspberry Pi Pico can be used to gain access to a BitLocker-secured device in under a minute, provided you have physical access to the device.

Microsoft Takes Legal Action to Crack Down on Storm-1152's Cybercrime Network
2023-12-14 05:46

Microsoft on Wednesday said it obtained a court order to seize infrastructure set up by a group called Storm-1152 that peddled roughly 750 million fraudulent Microsoft accounts and tools through a...

U.S. DoJ Cracks Down on North Korean IT Scammers Defrauding Global Businesses
2023-10-20 05:12

The U.S. government has announced the seizure of 17 website domains used by North Korean information technology (IT) workers as part of an illicit scheme to defraud businesses across the world,...

Rockstar Games reportedly sold games with Razor 1911 cracks on Steam
2023-09-06 22:10

In an ironic twist, Rockstar Games reportedly uses pirated software cracks to remove its DRM from some games they sell on Steam. [...]

Police cracks down on DDoS-for-hire service active since 2013
2023-06-16 19:27

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Serious Security: That KeePass “master password crack”, and what we can learn from it
2023-05-31 19:39

Simply put, the CVE-2023-32784 vulnerability means that a KeePass master password might be recoverable from system data even after the KeyPass program has exited, because sufficient information about your password might get left behind in sytem swap or sleep files, where allocated system memory may end up saved for later. A long-term password leak in memory also means that the password could, in theory, be recovered from a memory dump of the KeyPass program, even if that dump was grabbed long after you'd typed the password in, and long after the KeePass itself had no more need to keep it around.