Cybersecurity

Southeast Asian casino industry supercharging cyber fraud, UN says

The expanding Southeast Asian casino industry has become the nexus of the region’s criminal ecosystem, including its cyber fraud industry, and it is facilitating large-scale money laundering by organized crime networks, a new United Nations report reveals. The money laundering includes the proceeds from online scams like pig-butchering schemes, where scammers develop a relationship with […]

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SonicWall acquires Banyan to boost zero-trust, SSE offerings | TechTarget

Security vendor SonicWall is expanding its zero-trust network offerings with the acquisition of Banyan Security. On Wednesday, SonicWall announced that it acquired Banyan Security, a startup founded in 2015 that provides a cloud-based zero-trust network access (ZTNA) security architecture through its security service edge (SSE) platform. SonicWall purchased Banyan for an undisclosed amount on Dec. […]

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ExelaStealer: A New Info-stealer Gaining Traction on Dark Web | Cyware Hacker News

The info-stealer market is expanding rapidly as researchers uncovered a new malware named ExelaStealer. The malware first appeared in August and includes a variety of data-stealing capabilities from stealing sensitive data, such as passwords, credit card details, cookies, and session data to key logs, from Windows systems. More in detail According to Fortiguard Labs, ExelaStealer […]

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How to go from collecting risk data to actually reducing risk? – Help Net Security

Organizations trying to cope with securing their expanding attack surfaces eventually find themselves at a crossroads: they need to move beyond finding risks to effectively mitigating risk. Making that transition starts with a shift from using “risks found” as the KPI to “risks remediated” as the true measure of success. That change shifts security team […]