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How OSINT supports financial crime investigations
2025-05-05 05:30

In this Help Net Security interview, Stuart Clarke, CEO at Blackdot Solutions, discusses the strategic use of open-source intelligence (OSINT) in tackling financial crime. He outlines its...

2025 Data Breach Investigations Report: Third-party breaches double
2025-04-23 11:44

The exploitation of vulnerabilities has seen another year of growth as an initial access vector for breaches, reaching 20%, according to Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report....

CISA: No Wider Federal Impact from Treasury Cyber Attack, Investigation Ongoing
2025-01-07 08:43

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday said there are no indications that the cyber attack targeting the Treasury Department impacted other federal agencies....

Cisco confirms 'ongoing investigation' after crims brag about selling tons of data
2024-10-15 22:30

IntelBroker claims the breach impacts Microsoft, SAP, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US, and more Cisco has confirmed it is investigating claims of stealing — and now selling — data belonging to the...

Use Windows event logs for ransomware investigations, JPCERT/CC advises
2024-10-01 10:33

The JPCERT Coordination Center – the first Computer Security Incident Response Team established in Japan – has compiled a list of entries in Windows event logs that could help enterprise defenders...

Telegram Agrees to Share User Data With Authorities for Criminal Investigations
2024-09-24 06:33

In a major policy reversal, the popular messaging app Telegram has announced it will give users' IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities in response to valid legal requests in an attempt to...

International investigation shuts down Radar/Dispossessor ransomware group
2024-08-13 08:48

FBI Cleveland announced the disruption of "Radar/Dispossessor"-the criminal ransomware group led by the online moniker "Brain"-and the dismantling of three U.S. servers, three United Kingdom servers, 18 German servers, eight U.S.-based criminal domains, and one German-based criminal domain. Originally focused on entities in the United States, the investigation discovered 43 companies as victims of the attacks, from countries including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Honduras, India, Canada, Croatia, Peru, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Germany.

On the CSRB’s Non-Investigation of the SolarWinds Attack
2024-07-08 17:59

ProPublica has a long investigative article on how the Cyber Safety Review Board failed to investigate the SolarWinds attack, and specifically Microsoft’s culpability, even though they were...

23andMe data breach under investigation in UK and Canada
2024-06-10 15:00

Privacy authorities in Canada and the United Kingdom have launched a joint investigation to assess the scope of sensitive customer information exposed in last year's 23andMe data breach. The joint investigation will also examine if 23andMe alerted affected individuals and the privacy regulators as required by Canadian and UK privacy and data protection laws.

Snowflake tells customers to enable MFA as investigations continue
2024-06-10 12:30

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