The two founders of a cryptocurrency mixing service that allegedly obfuscated the origins of at least $100 million in criminal proceeds have been arrested, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Since 2015, Samourai Wallet has been used to launder illicit funds under the guise of being a legal privacy-minded service, the DOJ said. Its founders, […]
The U.S. food and agriculture sector dealt with at least 167 ransomware attacks last year, according to the leading industry group. In its first annual report, the Food and Agriculture-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Food and Ag-ISAC) said the industry was the seventh most targeted sector in the country, behind manufacturing, financial services and others. […]
ESET researchers discovered a cyberespionage campaign that, since at least September 2023, has been victimizing Tibetans through a targeted watering hole (also known as a strategic web compromise), and a supply-chain compromise to deliver trojanized installers of Tibetan language translation software. The attackers aimed to deploy malicious downloaders for Windows and macOS to compromise website […]
North Korean hackers breached at least two South Korean microchip equipment companies in recent months, stealing product design drawings and facility site photos, according to South Korea’s spy agency. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) did not disclose the names of the victims but said that hackers used living-off-the-land techniques to attack them. This approach involves […]
At least two different suspected China-linked cyber espionage clusters, tracked as UNC5325 and UNC3886, have been attributed to the exploitation of security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances. UNC5325 abused CVE-2024-21893 to deliver a wide range of new malware called LITTLELAMB.WOOLTEA, PITSTOP, PITDOG, PITJET, and PITHOOK, as well as attempted to maintain persistent access […]
42% of organizations surveyed in the US are considering or already have moved at least half of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructures, a phenomenon known as cloud repatriation, according to Citrix. The survey showed that 94% of respondents had been involved with a cloud repatriation project in the last three years. The most […]
Google said Tuesday that it is tracking at least 40 companies involved in the creation of spyware and other hacking tools that are sold to governments and deployed against “high risk” users, including journalists, human rights defenders and dissidents. The vendors — which have developed dozens of tools and tricks to break into phones, laptops, […]
96% of US companies were targeted with at least one fraud attempt in the past year, according to Trustpair. 83% of US companies saw an increase in cyber fraud attempts on their organization in the past year. Fraudsters primarily used text messages (50%), fake websites (48%), social media (37%), hacking (31%), BEC scams (31%) and […]
Dive Brief: The vast majority of U.S. companies, 96%, were targeted with at least one payment fraud attempt in the past 12 months, according to automated fraud prevention services provider Trustpair, which surveyed more than 260 senior finance and treasury leaders. The fraud attempts mark a 71% increase from the prior year as criminals stepped […]