Deduce has raised $9 million in funding led by Freestyle Capital, with additional investment by Foundry and True Ventures. The funding will launch Deduce’s GenAI Identity fraud solution out of stealth and help the company scale to prevent large-scale SuperSynthetic identity fraud across multiple verticals, including the financial service industry, fintech, and e-commerce. The rise […]
Summary Netskope Threat Labs is tracking a campaign that uses malicious Python scripts to steal Facebook users’ credentials and browser data. This campaign targets Facebook business accounts with bogus Facebook messages with a malicious file attached. The attacks are reaching victims mainly in Southern Europe and North America across different segments, led by the manufacturing […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced it is offering free security scans for critical infrastructure facilities, such as water utilities, to help protect these crucial units from hacker attacks.
NIST released Special Publication (SP) 800-207A – “A Zero Trust Architecture Model for Access Control in Cloud-Native Applications in Multi-Location Environments.” Enterprise application environments consist of geographically distributed and loosely coupled microservices that span multiple cloud and on-premises environments. Users from different locations access them through different devices. This scenario calls for establishing trust in […]
Simon Maude/Stuff A major cyber incident is impacting Auckland Transport HOP Card system, with top-ups and other HOP card services. Auckland Transport’s HOP Card system has been hit by a major cyber incident, taking top-ups and other HOP card services offline. An AT spokesperson said initial indications show it could be a ransomware attack. “Early […]
Red Snapper, veteran producers of jazz influenced by hip-hop, dub and electronica, will tour England in support of a new live album this Autmun. Live At The Moth Club will be released on vinyl on October 20 through Lo Recordings, coming on the back of their recent studio album Everybody is Somebody . The band – […]
Lockbit ransomware gang hit the Carthage Area Hospital and the Clayton-Hepburn Medical Center in New York Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023 LockBit ransomware group breached two hospitals, the Carthage Area Hospital and the Clayton-Hepburn Medical Center in New York. The Lockbit ransomware group claims to have hacked two major hospitals, the Carthage Area Hospital and […]
An Iranian state-backed APT group carried out a “wave” of cyber-espionage attacks against thousands of global targets over a six-month period, Microsoft has revealed. The group known as Peach Sandstorm (aka APT33, Elfin, and Refined Kitten) used password spraying techniques between February and July 2023. This is a brute-force technique where threat actors try to […]
Cybercrime , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Info Stealer Continues to Succeed via Phishing, Exploiting Ancient Flaw in Office Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • September 14, 2023 Loki with a fishing net, as depicted on an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript (Image: public domain via Wikimedia) In Norse mythology, Loki is a cowardly […]