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…...

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…...

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…...

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....

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (439+ words) The Justice Department announced the seizure of what it called one of the world’s largest hacker forums. In a Wednesday (March 4) news release, the department said LeakBase, “one of the world’s largest online forums” trading in stolen data and cybercrime…...

5+ mon, 19+ 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…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (347+ words) State-sponsored threat fraudsters have developed malware powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that can not only generate malicious scripts but also “change its code on the fly” to get around detection systems, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said in a Wednesday…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago   (351+ words) of Anthropic Mythos Cyber Threat Energy Fueled the CPI Spike but Essentials Are the Real Story OpenAI Calls...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (251+ words) Freelance services marketplace Fiverr denied a media report that it leaked sensitive data. The company made the denial in a reply to a Cybernews post on X that invited readers to “Learn what sensitive documents are leaked.” In the article…...

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…...