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Here’s what to know about attacks where a fraudster has your number, literally and otherwise SIM swap scams have been a growing problem, with fraudsters targeting people from various walks of life, including tech leaders, and causing untold damage to many victims. Here’s why you should be on the lookout for attacks where someone can…

The U.S. law enforcement agency shares a sampling of more than 90 spoofed FBI-related domains registered recently The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning about domains designed to spoof the Bureau’s official website, fbi.gov. The alert lists more than 90 such fraudulent websites that have been registered recently. “The FBI observed unattributed cyber actors…

The operation was carried out against fraudsters trying to monetize stolen credit card data on the internet’s seedy underbelly Europol and several national law enforcement agencies have teamed up to disrupt trade in stolen credit card data on the dark web, ultimately preventing around €40 million (US$48 million) in losses for both consumers and financial…

Without ever setting foot in the lab, a threat actor could dupe DNA researchers into creating pathogens, according to a study describing “an end-to-end cyber-biological attack” Researchers have described a theoretical cyberattack that could be used to dupe unsuspecting scientists into producing dangerous biological substances, toxins and synthetic viruses. The paper, authored by researchers from Israel’s…

ESET researchers discover a new backdoor used by Turla to exfiltrate stolen documents to Dropbox ESET researchers found a previously undocumented backdoor and document stealer. Dubbed Crutch by its developers, we were able to attribute it to the infamous Turla APT group. According to our research, it was used from 2015 to, at least, early…