Sultry grooves from the Motor City veteran Alton Miller is a genuine Detroit pioneer who played the city’s earliest house parties – and decades later he is still turning out authentic and emotive deep house. ‘Am Forplay’ is the lead track of his latest three track EP for a new label out of Berlin called […]
U.S. prosecutors secured another conviction this week in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme that dates back to 2017. Nigerian national Henry Onyedikachi Echefu, 32, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. Echefu was in South Africa at the time of […]
The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reported a surge in online job scams targeting unsuspecting job seekers for their personal information. With 492 victims assisted in 2023, up from 226 in 2022, the alarming trend shows no signs of slowing down. Notably, January 2024 alone saw 95 reported victims of job scams, representing a staggering […]
RiskInDroid (Risk Index for Android) is an open-source tool for quantitative risk analysis of Android applications based on machine learning techniques. How RiskInDroid works “A user should be able to quickly assess an application’s level of risk by simply glancing at RiskInDroid’s output, and they should be able to compare the app’s risk with others […]
The European Union (EU) has agreed new rules to strengthen cyber incident response and recovery across member states, which has been dubbed the ‘cyber solidarity act.’ The provisional regulation aims to make the EU more resilient and reactive to cyber threats via new cooperation mechanisms. This includes the establishment of an EU-wide cybersecurity alert system, […]
Mar 07, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are conducting brute-force attacks against WordPress sites by leveraging malicious JavaScript injections, new findings from Sucuri reveal. The attacks, which take the form of distributed brute-force attacks, “target WordPress websites from the browsers of completely innocent and unsuspecting site visitors,” security researcher Denis Sinegubko said. The activity […]
Mar 07, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Software Security The China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda orchestrated both watering hole and supply chain attacks targeting Tibetan users at least since September 2023. The end of the attacks is to deliver malicious downloaders for Windows and macOS that deploy a known backdoor called MgBot and a previously […]
PetSmart, a major pet retail company, has issued a warning to customers about credential stuffing attacks aimed at breaching their accounts. As a precaution, passwords for accounts logged in during the attack have been reset.
Capita, the British outsourcing company hit by a ransomware attack last March, has reported losing more than £106.6 million ($135.5 million) over the last year — roughly a quarter of which was directly caused by the incident. The company had initially said it expected the incident to cost up to £20 million ($25.4 million) to […]