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Google Warns of Rising Cloaking Scams, AI-Driven Fraud, and Crypto Schemes

Google has revealed that bad actors are leveraging techniques like landing page cloaking to conduct scams by impersonating legitimate sites.
“Cloaking is specifically designed to prevent moderation systems and teams from reviewing policy-violating content which enables them to deploy the scam directly to users,” Laurie Richardson, VP and Head of Trust and Safety at Google, said.
“The landing

Two Men Charged For Hacking US Tax Preparation Firms

Two Nigerian nationals, one in Mexico and one in North Dakota, have been charged for hacking into the systems of US tax preparation companies.

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CISA, FBI Confirm China Hacked Telecoms Providers for Spying

CISA and the FBI have confirmed that Chinese hackers compromised the networks of telecommunications companies to spy on specific targets.

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Idaho Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Hacking, Data Theft, Extortion

Robert Purbeck was sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing the personal information of over 132,000 people.

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5 BCDR Oversights That Leave You Exposed to Ransomware

Ransomware isn’t just a buzzword; it’s one of the most dreaded challenges businesses face in this increasingly digitized world. Ransomware attacks are not only increasing in frequency but also in sophistication, with new ransomware groups constantly emerging. Their attack methods are evolving rapidly, becoming more dangerous and damaging than ever. Almost all respondents (99.8%) in a recent

Windows Zero-Day Exploited by Russia Triggered With File Drag-and-Drop, Delete Actions

The exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability in Windows is executed by deleting files, drag-and-dropping them, or right clicking on them.

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NIST Explains Why It Failed to Clear CVE Backlog

NIST says all known exploited CVEs in the backlog have been addressed, but admitted that clearing the entire backlog by October was optimistic.

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Cybereason and Trustwave Announce Merger

Cybereason Chairman & CEO Eric Gan believes the merger could help its existing success in some international markets.

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TikTok Pixel Privacy Nightmare: A New Case Study

Advertising on TikTok is the obvious choice for any company trying to reach a young market, and especially so if it happens to be a travel company, with 44% of American Gen Zs saying they use the platform to plan their vacations. But one online travel marketplace targeting young holidaymakers with ads on the popular video-sharing platform broke GDPR rules when a third-party partner misconfigured

New RustyAttr Malware Targets macOS Through Extended Attribute Abuse

Threat actors have been found leveraging a new technique that abuses extended attributes for macOS files to smuggle a new malware called RustyAttr.
The Singaporean cybersecurity company has attributed the novel activity with moderate confidence to the infamous North Korea-linked Lazarus Group, citing infrastructure and tactical overlaps observed in connection with prior campaigns, including

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