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Latest figures paint grim picture of how viciously the elderly are targeted

The FBI says investment fraud was the form of cybercrime that incurred the greatest financial loss for Americans last year.…

Innovative Ethereum feature exploited as victims say goodbye to assets

Infosec researchers are noting rising cryptocurrency attacks and have encouraged wallet security providers to up their collective game.…

Ailing tech integrator takes a hard hit... share price down by up to 20% this morning

Atos' share price sank as much as 20 percent this morning on confirmation that Airbus is no longer interested in buying the big data and security (BDS) parts of the crumbling tech empire.…

Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials

At least 900 websites built with Google's Firebase, a cloud database, have been misconfigured, leaving credentials, personal info, and other sensitive data inadvertently exposed to the public internet, according to security researchers.…

Sneaky software slips past shields, spurring scramble

Fujitsu has confirmed that miscreants have compromised some of its internal computers, deployed malware, and may have stolen some customer information.…

A huge attack surface for a vulnerability with various PoCs available

The volume of Fortinet boxes exposed to the public internet and vulnerable to a month-old critical security flaw in FortiOS is still extremely high, despite a gradual increase in patching.…

Telco reckons data is old, isn't from its systems

More than 70 million records, allegedly stolen from AT&T in 2021, were dumped on a cybercrime forum at the weekend.…

Virtual gunslingers forcibly became cheaters via mystery means

Updated  Esports pros competing in the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Pro League tournament were forced to abandon their match today due to a suspected cyberattack.…

But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale'

Zero tolerance of failure by information security professionals is unrealistic, and makes it harder for cyber security folk to do the essential part of their job: recovering fast from inevitable attacks, according to Gartner analysts Chris Mixter and Dennis Xiu.…

875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested

Filipino police rescued 875 "workers" – including 504 foreigners – in a raid late last week on a firm that posed as an online gaming company but in reality operated a forced labor camp that housed romance scam operators.…

As ransomware becomes more sophisticated, detection tools should be upgraded to cover every site and location

Sponsored Feature  Ransomware gangs that steal and encrypt vital business data before extorting payment for its decryption and restoration are ramping up global attacks at an ever-increasing rate. In fact, cyber security experts agree that ransomware now represents one of - if not the most - serious cybersecurity threats currently facing governments, public/private sector organisations and enterprises around the world.…

ALSO: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns

in brief  Almost as quickly as a paper came out last week revealing an AI side-channel vulnerability, Cloudflare researchers have figured out how to solve it: just obscure your token size.…

Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more

Feature  While in a rush to understand, build, and ship AI products, developers and data scientists are being urged to be mindful of security and not fall prey to supply-chain attacks.…

Wave of Okta attacks mark what researchers are calling the biggest security trend of the year

IT helpdesk workers are increasingly the target of cybercriminals – a trend researchers have described as "the most noteworthy" of the past year.…

Made public highly sensitive data on complaints about Metropolitan Police Service

The London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime is being rapped by regulators for untidy tech practices that made public the personal data of hundreds of people who filed complaints against the Metropolitan Police Service.…

Uncle Sam can use this snooping tool, too, but that's beside the point

There's another Chinese-manufactured product – joining the likes of TikTok, cars and semiconductors – that poses a national security risk to Americans: electronic locks, such as those used in safes.…

Imagine trying to trick folks into buying $500 of unnecessary repairs – and they turn out to be federal agents

A pair of tech support businesses accused of swindling marks out of their hard-earned cash have agreed to cough up a $26 million settlement following an undercover probe by the FTC.…

Canadian-Russian said to have turned to a life of cybercrime during pandemic, now must pay the price – literally

A LockBit ransomware kingpin has been sentenced to almost four years behind bars and ordered to pay more than CA$860,000 ($635,000, £500,000) in restitution to some of his victims by a Canadian court as he awaits extradition to the US.…

Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it

Google has enhanced its Safe Browsing service to enable real-time protection in Chrome for desktop, iOS, and soon Android against risky websites, without sending browsing history data to the ad biz.…

Zut alors! Department for registering and helping unemployed people broken into

A French government department - responsible for registering and assisting unemployed people - is the latest victim of a mega data breach that compromised the information of up to 43 million citizens.…