Cybersecurity News


Researchers Adapt AI With Aim to Identify Anonymous Authors

At Black Hat Asia, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity researchers use neural networks to attempt to identify authors, but accuracy is still wanting.
02 October 2020

Biometric Data Collection Demands Scrutiny of Privacy Law

An IT lawyer digs into the implications of collecting biometric data, why it can't be anonymized, and what nations are doing about it.
02 October 2020

Voter Registration ‘Error’ Phish Hits During U.S. Election Frenzy

Voter Registration ‘Error’ Phish Hits During U.S. Election Frenzy Phishing emails tell recipients that their voter's registration applications are incomplete - but instead steal their social security numbers, license data and more.
02 October 2020

'Father of Identity Theft' Sentenced to 207 Months

James Jackson was convicted of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, access device fraud, and theft of mail last year.
02 October 2020

Account Takeover Fraud Losses Total Billions Across Online Retailers

Account Takeover Fraud Losses Total Billions Across Online Retailers Account takeover fraud (ATO) attacks are on the rise, up nearly 300 percent since last year.
02 October 2020

Attacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet

Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations.
02 October 2020

Researchers Mixed on Sanctions for Ransomware Negotiators

Researchers Mixed on Sanctions for Ransomware Negotiators Financial institutions, cyber-insurance firms, and security firms have all been put on notice by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
02 October 2020

Emotet Spoofs DNC In New Attack Campaign

Thousands of Emotet emails contain a message body pulled directly from the Democratic National Committee website, researchers report.
02 October 2020

Google is creating a special Android security team to find bugs in sensitive apps

Android apps that will be on the team's radar include COVID-19 contact tracing apps and election-related apps.
02 October 2020

LatAm Banking Trojans Collaborate in Never-Before-Seen Effort

LatAm Banking Trojans Collaborate in Never-Before-Seen Effort Eleven different malware families are coordinating on distribution, features, geo-targeting and more.
02 October 2020

Name That Toon: Castle in the Sky

Name That Toon: Castle in the Sky Feeling creative? Submit your caption in the comments, and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card.
02 October 2020

Week in security with Tony Anscombe

ESET research unearths a previously unknown espionage gang and a new version of Android spyware - Elucidating connections between Latin American banking trojans

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02 October 2020

Years-Long ‘SilentFade’ Attack Drained Facebook Victims of $4M

Years-Long ‘SilentFade’ Attack Drained Facebook Victims of $4M Facebook detailed an ad-fraud cyberattack that's been ongoing since 2016, stealing Facebook credentials and browser cookies.
02 October 2020

Google sets up research grant for finding bugs in browser JavaScript engines

Eligible browser JavaScript engines include JavaScriptCore (Safari), V8 (Chrome, Edge), and Spidermonkey (Firefox).
02 October 2020

3 Months for the Cybercrime Books

3 Months for the Cybercrime Books From July through September, US law enforcement handed down major indictments or sanctions against foreign threat groups at least six times.
02 October 2020

3 Months for the Cybercrime Books

3 Months for the Cybercrime Books From July through September, US law enforcement handed down major indictments or sanctions against foreign threat groups at least six times.
02 October 2020

305 CVEs and Counting: Bug-Hunting Stories From a Security Engineer

305 CVEs and Counting: Bug-Hunting Stories From a Security Engineer Larry Cashdollar, senior security response engineer at Akamai, talks about the craziest stories he's faced, reporting CVEs since 1994.
02 October 2020

Truncated URLs Look to Make Big Dent in Phishing

The approach is a long time in coming and will test the premise that users can more easily detect a suspicious domain from the name alone.
02 October 2020

Researchers track hacking ‘fingerprints,’ link Russian attackers to Windows exploit sellers

The new technique was used to profile prolific Windows LPE exploit sellers.
02 October 2020

ESET discovers a rare APT that stayed undetected for nine years

Active since 2011 but only discovered this year, the XDSpy hacker group targeted government and private companies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine.
02 October 2020