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As cybercrime continues to grow, law enforcement agencies worldwide face increased challenges in safeguarding organizations and individuals. The European Cybercrime Centre was set up by Europol to strengthen the law enforcement response to cybercrime in the EU and thus to help protect European citizens, businesses and governments from online crime.
I'm not just talking about cybersecurity education in schools shaping the technical workforce of the future - America's schools themselves are prime targets for cybercrime today. With risks such as student data getting leaked on the dark web, school districts' reputations getting tarnished by ransomware mishandlings, and the potential of any single attack to not only disrupt classes for days or weeks but also threaten the livelihoods of our youth, the stakes are too high to ignore the cyber resiliency of our school system.
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a cybercrime network comprising three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked to a massive botnet controlling a residential proxy service known as "911 S5.". Researchers at the Canadian University of Sherbrooke revealed almost two years ago, in June 2022, that this illegitimate residential proxy service lured potential victims by offering free VPN services to install malware designed to add their IP addresses to the 911 S5 botnet.
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a cybercrime network comprising three Chinese nationals and three Thailand-based companies linked to a massive botnet controlling a residential proxy service known as "911 S5.". Researchers at the Canadian University of Sherbrooke revealed almost two years ago, in June 2022, that this illegitimate residential proxy service lured potential victims by offering free VPN services to install malware designed to add their IP addresses to the 911 S5 botnet.
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Microsoft is calling attention to a Morocco-based cybercrime group dubbed Storm-0539 that's behind gift card fraud and theft through highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks. "Their...
Google fixes yet another Chrome zero-day exploited in the wildFor the eighth time this year, Google has released an emergency update for its Chrome browser that fixes a zero-day vulnerability with an in-the-wild exploit. GitHub fixes maximum severity Enterprise Server auth bypass bugA critical, 10-out-of-10 vulnerability allowing unrestricted access to vulnerable GitHub Enterprise Server instances has been fixed by Microsoft-owned GitHub.
The threat research team discovered a significant spike in scams leveraging sophisticated tactics such as using deepfake technology, AI-manipulated audio synchronization, and hijacking of YouTube and other social channels to disseminate fraudulent content. While all social media is a natural breeding ground for scams, YouTube has become a significant channel for crime.
Millennials are the top targets for phishing attacks, receiving 37.5% of phishing emails. For the fifth consecutive year, the proportion of web traffic associated with bad bots grew to 32% in 2023, up from 30.2% in 2022, while traffic from human users decreased to 50.4%. Account takeover attacks increased 10% in 2023, compared to the same period in the prior year.
The infamous cybercrime syndicate known as FIN7 has been linked to a spear-phishing campaign targeting the U.S. automotive industry to deliver a known backdoor called Carbanak (aka Anunak). "FIN7...