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Bad bots are often the first indicator of online fraud and represent a risk to digital businesses, as well as their customers. In 2021, evasive bad bots - a grouping of moderate and advanced bad bots that elude standard security defenses - made up 65.6% of all bad bot traffic.
Pro-Beijing and Iran miscreants are using the war in Ukraine to spread disinformation that supports these countries' political interests - namely, advancing anti-Western narratives - according to threat-intel experts at Mandiant. It also attributes these campaigns to actors that the threat researchers say are operating in support of nation-states including Russia, Belarus, China and Iran.
A new FLASH report from the FBI warns about cyber actors scraping credit card data from compromised online checkout pages from US businesses. According to the FBI, a US business was targeted in September 2020 by an unidentified threat actor, who inserted malicious PHP code into the checkout page of the targeted company website.
The FBI and its friends have warned businesses of crooks scraping people's credit-card details from tampered payment pages on compromised websites. Php in an attempt to inject malicious code into the checkout.
Noting that banking fraud continues to rise, the data-driven research study found a 41% increase in attempted fraud over a similar evaluation conducted the year before by its data scientists. Data scientists and fraud subject matter experts compiled anonymized data secured from a subset of its total monitored transactions, including both online and offline payments channels that covered ACH, wires, checks, card purchases, and P2P transactions.
China's Ministry of Public Security has revealed the five most prevalent types of fraud perpetrated online or by phone. The e-commerce scam known as "Brushing" topped the list and accounted for around a third of all internet fraud activity in China.
The European Commission on Wednesday proposed new regulation that would require tech companies to scan for child sexual abuse material and grooming behavior, raising worries that it could undermine end-to-end encryption. While instant messaging services like WhatsApp already rely on hashed versions of known CSAM to automatically block new uploads of images or videos matching them, the new plan requires such platforms to identify and flag new instances of CSAM. "Detection technologies must only be used for the purpose of detecting child sexual abuse," the regulator said.
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Library lending app Onleihe announced problems lending several media formats offered on the platform, like audio, video, and e-book files, after a cyberattack targeted their vendor. Onleihe is an app that allows users to connect to your local libraries and borrow eBooks, eMagazines, and audiobooks.
Library lending app Onleihe announced problems lending several media formats offered on the platform, like audio, video, and e-book files, after a cyberattack targeted their vendor. Onleihe is an app that allows users to connect to your local libraries and borrow eBooks, eMagazines, and audiobooks.