8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (462+ words) Cryptocurrency thefts crept up this year amid a rise in hacks from North Korea. That’s according to findings released Thursday (Dec. 18) by blockchain data platform Chainalysis, showing that the crypto industry saw more than $3.4 billion theft from January of this…...

1+ mon, 5+ 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…...

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....

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (278+ words) The term “crypto crime” might call up images of fraud or cyberthefts. But increasingly, that phrase is taking on a more sinister connotation, with the number of physical attacks on cryptocurrency investors, some of which involve violent home invasions, nearly…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (423+ words) Cybercriminals are using generative artificial intelligence and synthetic media tools to scale phishing, vishing and callback scams into high-volume, high-precision operations that are harder to spot and costlier to contain. The result is billions of dollars lost to fraudsters, according…...

5+ mon, 2+ 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…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (289+ words) Oracle is reportedly investigating hacks of some customers’ E-Business Suite applications after hackers who said they were affiliated with a ransomware group claimed to have breached the applications. The hackers demanded ransoms, in one case $50 million, from the large organizations…...

5+ mon, 20+ hour 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…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1028+ words) Crypto risk didn’t just grow in 2025, it shifted, with the year’s record illicit volume driven by nation states (notably Russia) using crypto for sanctions evasion at scale. Stablecoins dominate illicit use because they dominate the landscape overall, while blockchain visibility…...