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Mobsters now overlap with cybercrime gangs and use AI for evil, Europol warns

Mon, 24/03/2025 - 05:29
PLUS: Russian bug-buyers seeks Telegram flaws; Another WordPress security mess; NIST backlog grows; and more!

Infosec In Brief  Organized crime networks are now reliant on digital tech for most of their activities according to Europol, the European agency that fights international crime on the continent and beyond.…

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China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

Sun, 23/03/2025 - 23:29
PLUS: Zoho's Ulaa anointed India’s most patriotic browser; Typhoon-like gang targets Taiwan; Japan debates offensive cyber-ops; and more

Asia In Brief  China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security have outlawed the use of facial recognition without consent.…

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Oracle Cloud says it's not true someone broke into its login servers and stole data

Sun, 23/03/2025 - 21:09
Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale

Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen.…

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Ex-NSA boss: Good news. Election security focus helped dissuade increase in Russian meddling with US

Sun, 23/03/2025 - 13:04
Plus AI in the infosec world, why CISA should know its place, and more

Interview  Russia appears to be having second thoughts on how aggressively, or at least how visibly, it attempts to influence American elections, according to a former head of the NSA.…

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AdTech CEO whose products detected fraud jailed for financial fraud

Fri, 21/03/2025 - 07:32
Made up revenue and pretended to use non-existent data

The former CEO of Kubient, an advertising tech company that developed a cloudy product capable of detecting fraudulent ads, has been jailed for fraud.…

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Paragon spyware deployed against journalists and activists, Citizen Lab claims

Fri, 21/03/2025 - 06:26
Plus: Customer info stolen from 'parental control' software slinger SpyX; F-35 kill switch denied

Infosec newsbytes  Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions pitches its tools as helping governments and law enforcement agencies to catch criminals and terrorists, but a fresh Citizen Lab report claims its software has been used to target journalists, activists, and other civilians.…

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Capital One cracker could be sent back to prison after judges rule she got off too lightly

Fri, 21/03/2025 - 01:06
Feds want book thrown at Paige Thompson, who pinched 100M customer records

Paige Thompson, the perpetrator of the Capital One data theft, may be sent back behind bars – after an appeals court ruled her sentence of time served plus five years of probation was too lenient.…

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Dept of Defense engineer took home top-secret docs, booked a fishing trip to Mexico – then the FBI showed up

Thu, 20/03/2025 - 23:02
So much for that vacation

A US Department of Defense electrical engineer has turned his world upside down after printing 155 pages from 20 documents, all of which were marked top secret and classified, from his DoD workspace, brought them home with him – and was collared on his way to Mexico.…

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