Security News

FBI: BEC Scam Losses Almost Double To Reach $1.2 Billion
2019-04-23 14:55

Overall, in 2018 the FBI received more than 351k reported scams with losses exceeding $2.7 billion.

The FBI's RAT: Blocking Fraudulent Wire Transfers
2019-04-23 13:18

Bureau's Recovery Asset Team Targets Choke Points to Recover Lost FundsFraud, e-hustles and social engineering attacks continues to proliferate, the FBI's latest report into the state of internet...

Hackers bragged that pretty vanilla breach included FBI watchlist? Well, colour us shocked
2019-04-16 12:13

It's didn't, by the way – it's a bunch of ad industry folk A hacker collective calling itself Pokemongo that published what it claimed to be personal data of US FBI agents has followed up by...

How a new public-private partnership will fill cybersecurity gaps for the FBI and CIA
2019-04-09 14:47

Companies including Mastercard and Microsoft are partnering with federal agencies and nonprofits to produce more cyber talent.

FBI catches heat, HS kids catch a hacking rap, and Albany catches a ransomware infection
2019-04-06 11:56

Plus, JavaScript card sniffer's go under the microscope Roundup This week had an Apple engineer fighting the government, an Apache update release, and a security scare at Mar-a-Lago.…

Report: FBI Fails to Promptly Notify Cybercrime Victims
2019-04-03 18:03

Inspect General Cites Numerous Errors in How FBI Makes NotificationsThe FBI is largely failing to notify cybercrime victims of their rights in a timely manner following a "cyber intrusion," a new...

FBI's Palmore on Leadership and Diversity
2019-03-27 13:33

Cyber Investigator on the Need to Diversify Skills in Cyber WorkforceAt a time when diversity is a key topic within the cybersecurity leadership and workforce, MK Palmore of the FBI says we also...

FBI crackdown on DDoS-for-hire sites led to 85% slash in attack sizes
2019-03-21 10:42

According to a new report, average and maximum DDoS attack sizes decreased by 85.36% and 23.91%.

Average DDoS attack sizes decrease 85% due to FBI’s shutdown of DDoS-for-hire websites
2019-03-21 06:00

The FBI’s shutdown of the 15 largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) for hire vendors (booters) reduced the overall number of attacks worldwide by nearly 11 percent compared to the same...

Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks 'by 11%'
2019-03-19 23:10

Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4 The FBI's takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.…