U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer
A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating... Read more
Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys
Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the... Read more
Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All
A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popul... Read more
Top Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva
Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov , the accused 40-year-old Ukrainian leader of a prolific cybercriminal group that stole tens of millions of dollars from... Read more
Lawsuit Seeks Food Benefits Stolen By Skimmers
A nonprofit organization is suing the state of Massachusetts on behalf of thousands of low-income families who were collectively robbed of more than... Read more
Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition
Let’s face it: Having “2022 election” in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. Still, while most of us h... Read more
LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates
Responding to a recent surge in AI-generated bot accounts, LinkedIn is rolling out new features that it hopes will help users make more informed de... Read more
Hacker Charged With Extorting Online Psychotherapy Service
A 25-year-old Finnish man has been charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy company and its patients. Finnish auth... Read more
Accused ‘Raccoon’ Malware Developer Fled Ukraine After Russian Invasion
A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Racco... Read more
Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn
On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles n... Read more
Customer Data of Microsoft Leaked due to Misconfigured Storage Server
The cybersecurity company that uncovered the leak is indicating tens of thousands of companies were affected. But Microsoft says the scale of the pro... Read more
How Card Skimming Disproportionally Affects Those Most In Need
When people banking in the United States lose money because their payment card got skimmed at an ATM , gas pump or grocery store checkout terminal ,... Read more
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An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a privat…
