The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that scammers are impersonating its employees in an attempt to commit fraud. In an alert posted on the CISA website, the organisation warned that so-called impersonation scams are on the rise. An impersonation scam is any type of fraud where a criminal pretends to be a trusted individual or organisation to dupe a victim into handing over personal information or money or taking an unwise action. Impersonation scammers will often put some effort into making their fraudulent communications look more convincing, such as...
Author: Graham Cluley
Apple announces a new privacy feature in iOS that will allow you to hide and lock away your apps - but will be philanderers who benefit the most? And an ex-police officer is arrested for extortion.
23andMe, the California-based company which sells DNA testing kits to help people learn about their ancestry and potential health risks, is facing scrutiny from British and Canadian data protection authorities following a security breach that saw hackers compromise the personal data of nearly seven million users.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
A 16-year-old youth has been arrested in France on suspicion of having run a malware-for-rent business.
The unnamed Frenchman, who goes by online handles including "ChatNoir" and "Casquette", is said to be a key member of the Epsilon hacking group, which has in the recent past stolen millions of records from hackd firms.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Did your company fall victim to the LockBit ransomware? Have cybercriminals left gigabytes of your data encrypted, with no easy route for recovery that doesn't involve paying a ransom?
Well, don't fear...
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Did your company fall victim to the LockBit ransomware? Have cybercriminals left gigabytes of your data encrypted, with no easy route for recovery that doesn't involve paying a ransom? Well, don't fear. The FBI announced this week that it had obtained over 7,000 decryption keys for the LockBit ransomware and is urging victims to come forward for free assistance. In a speech at this week's Boston Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran detailed some of the FBI's recent successes in the war against cybercrime, including its action against the LockBit ransomware-as-a...
Drones, some coloured cardboard, and a piece of tinfoil may be all the kit you need to crash a robot-driven taxi, and a rapper is accused of using Justin Bieber's name to defraud a TV company.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
US spyware vendor pcTattletale has shut down its operations following a serious data breach that exposed sensitive information about its customers, as well as data stolen from some of their victims.
pcTattletale was promoted as "employee and child monitoring software" designed to "protect your business and family." Of course, what it actually was, was a way to surreptitiously spy upon other people's phones and computers - secretly viewing everything they did.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Microsoft gets itself into a pickle with a privacy-popping new feature on its CoPilot+ PCs, the FTC warns of impersonated companies, and is your company hiring North Korean IT workers?
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by author, journalist, and podcaster Geoff White.
A vast network of millions of compromised computers, being used to facilitate a wide range of cybercrime, has been disrupted by a multinational law enforcement operation.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.