Collaborate Disseminate
Voice-based phishing was at the root of multiple attack sprees Mandiant responded to last year, reflecting a concerning shift in tactics.
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The men facilitated about $1.28 million in salary from victim U.S. companies by hosting laptop farms and helping remote IT workers assume fake identities.
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The maximum-severity vulnerability, which hasn’t been exploited in the wild yet, affects software customers use to manage networking devices.
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The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad botnets enabled cybercriminals to initiate thousands of attacks. A crackdown targeting large-scale botnets continues amid growing challenges.
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Cameron Nicholas Curry, also known as “Loot,” stole a trove of corporate data from a D.C.-based tech company as his six-month contract gig came to a close.
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Cisco’s response to the latest SD-WAN and firewall defects has been fast, but the harder question is how long sophisticated actors had a head start — and what’s already compromised.
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Kwamaine Jerell Ford allegedly impersonated an adult film star and tricked his high-profile victims into sharing their iCloud credentials and MFA codes under false pretenses.
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Google’s research report on ransomware activity last year underscores how cybercrime is evolving and clouding a collective understanding of its full impact and scale.
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The botnet, which compromised routers and IoT devices in 163 countries, claimed about 369,000 victims and $5.8 million from its cybercriminal customers, officials said.
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Angelo Martino is accused of playing both sides — committing attacks and conducting ransomware negotiations on some of the same cases on behalf of his former employer.
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