1+ week, 4+ day ago   (260+ words) Amazon announced Wednesday (Sept. 2) that it is giving consumers a new way to fight back against one of scammers’ most effective weapons, impersonation. The company is adding a feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether an email, text,…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (577+ words) Wall Street’s cyber weak point is shifting from networks to identities. Attackers are bypassing traditional defenses by impersonating IT help desks, stealing credentials and turning legitimate cloud access into a breach vector. Financial firms are prime targets because their data…...

4+ mon, 15+ hour ago   (362+ words) Foxconn, which manufactures products for Apple and Google, is reportedly recovering from a ransomware attack. A company spokesperson confirmed the incident for web publication BleepingComputer Wednesday (May 13), following claims earlier in the week by the Nitrogen ransomware operation that it…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago   (373+ words) Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said Monday (May 11) that it identified and may have prevented the use of the first zero-day exploit developed with artificial intelligence. Writing in the latest GTIG AI Threat Tracker, which was released Monday (May 11), GTIG…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago   (395+ words) JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley are among the banks testing the tool internally, the report added, citing sources familiar with the matter. These sources added that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (351+ words) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell arranged the meeting at Treasury’s headquarters in Washington to ensure the banks are aware of the potential risks and are taking precautions, according to the report. Many of the CEOs…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (407+ words) Customer data allegedly stolen from car shopping site CarGurus was posted by a hacking group, according to multiple media reports. Bleeping Computer reported Tuesday (Feb. 24) that an extortion group called ShinyHunters claimed Saturday (Feb. 21) that it had 12.4 million records from…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (430+ words) Reported ransomware incidents and payments dropped in 2024 after law enforcement’s disruption of two high-profile ransomware groups, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said Thursday (Dec. 4). FinCEN announced this trend in a press release highlighting findings from…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (456+ words) Anthropic published research Monday (Nov. 24) showing its Claude Opus 4.5 model, released the same day, reduced successful prompt injection attacks to 1% in browser-based operations, down from earlier versions that faced higher breach rates when adversaries embedded malicious instructions in web content....