News, Miscellaneous News
April 06, 2025
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CYBER KIDS: How Kim Jong-un is grooming world’s best hackers from age of 5 & handpicking them from primary school to target the West 

The Sun reports: KIM Jong-un is recruiting primary school children and grooming them to become the world’s best hackers, an intelligence analyst has warned. The child prodigies are recruited from the age of five and channelled into specialist schools where they learn how to target the West with devastating hacks. North Korea analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, Michael Barnhart, told the Sun […]

Consumer Alerts, Miscellaneous News
March 28, 2025
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UK warns of emerging threat from ‘sadistic’ online ‘Com networks’ of teenage boys

The Record reports: Online networks of teenage boys “dedicated to inflicting harm and committing a range of criminality” are among the most significant concerns for British law enforcement, officials announced this week. Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is warning of a “new generation of young, English-speaking cyber criminals” who are “predominantly teenage boys that often […]

Miscellaneous News
March 14, 2025
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U.S. intel vets helped crypto firm soar, unaware of infamous hacker behind it

You may not always know who your partners are. The Washington Post reports: An innovative company lionized for devising ways to crack passwords to huge cryptocurrency accounts has fallen into disarray since it began emerging that the firm was secretly co-founded by a once-celebrated hacker publicly accused of repeated sexual assaults. The previously unreported role […]

Miscellaneous News
March 04, 2025
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It’s hard to know what to believe

CISA Series reports: CISA is pushing back against reports that it has been directed to stop tracking Russian cyber threats, calling the claims “fake” and a risk to national security. This is an update to a story that first appeared over the weekend, in which The Guardian reported that a memo deprioritizing Russia was issued—an allegation that […]

Malware Ransomware, Miscellaneous News
February 27, 2025
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EncryptHub breaches 618 orgs to deploy infostealers, ransomware

Bleeping Computer reports that “EncryptHub,” a/k/a “Larva-208,”  has been targeting organizations worldwide with spear-phishing and social engineering attacks: According to a report by Prodaft, which was published internally last week and made public yesterday, since June 2024, when EncryptHub initiated operations, it has compromised at least 618 organizations. After gaining access, the threat actors install Remote Monitoring and […]

Cyberattack, Miscellaneous News
February 19, 2025
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Pro-Russian hackers attack Italian websites after president compares invasion of Ukraine to Nazis

Associated Press reports: A pro-Russian hacker group attacked Italian government websites on Tuesday in what it said was a reaction to a speech by Italian President Sergio Mattarella that compared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the Nazis ‘ “wars of conquest.” The NoName57 hacker group, which announced the attacks on social media, hit the websites of the defense, interior and transport ministries, as […]

Miscellaneous News, Data Breach News
February 11, 2025
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Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’

Brian Krebs reports that a member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team has a criminal past: Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to […]

New Threats, Miscellaneous News
January 12, 2025
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Critical Warning For 100 Million Apple Users—New Hack Attack Confirmed

Forbes reports that some new research suggests that 100 million macOS users are at risk from a new attack involving a Banshee Stealer variant: A new variant of the macOS Banshee Stealer threat, capable of hacking browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallets and other sensitive data, has been monitored by security researchers since late last year. Now those […]

News, Miscellaneous News
October 18, 2024
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Two Sudanese nationals indicted for operating the Anonymous Sudan group; DDoSers alleged to attempt to injure or kill

While entities should be concerned about the risk of hacks or attempts to exfiltrate or encrypt data, the risk of a DDoS attack should not be ignored. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks can totally disrupt an entity’s website or ability to function. Huge botnets enable serious power slamming websites and preventing them from functioning. […]

Commentaries and Analyses, Miscellaneous News, Workplace
August 27, 2024
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Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats

Can you effectively monitor employee activity to prevent and root out insider threats, or are you turning your workplace into a hostile surveillance environment? The Register reports that a report by Cracked Labs examines how workplace surveillance turns workers into suspects: Software designed to address legitimate business concerns about cyber security and compliance treats employees […]