This phishing kit looks more like BEC-as-a-service

Cisco Talos’ research on ARToken builds on what’s known about the related EvilTokens phishing-as-a-service.

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Trump budget boss Russell Vought open to re-staffing CISA

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has been floating the idea of adding back 600 CISA personnel after deep Trump administration cuts.

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Trump budget boss Russell Vought open to re-staffing CISA

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has been floating the idea of adding back 600 CISA personnel after deep Trump administration cuts.

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Supreme Court delivers ‘major win’ for tech privacy in Chatrie ruling

Dissenting justices who criticized the ruling said it would have “seismic” implications for the Fourth Amendment.

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Russia uses Cellebrite to break into human rights activist’s phone, even after cancellation of contract

The phone-cracking firm broke off from its deal with Russia, but Citizen Lab said that didn’t stop authorities from surveilling Andrey Pivovarov.

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Malicious hackers exploit Cisco zero-day for highest access level at communications service provider

Mandiant detailed the incident in a blog post Wednesday, but it’s unclear who was behind it or if they managed to get broad visibility into the victim’s internal traffic.

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In a first, a court takedown goes after two cybercrime tools at once

Microsoft, with law enforcement and industry partners, disrupted more than 200 command and control servers for Amadey and StealC, often used in conjunction.

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Open-source security is posing challenges governments can’t easily solve

A diffuse landscape, fruitful targets, companies not stepping up, AI’s influence and flagging U.S. government efforts all figure into a shifting threat.

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Justice Department seizes infrastructure used by cyber scam and criminal marketplace

lso Tuesday, the Treasury Department took action against the same Cambodian company, Huione Group, and affiliates.

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Lawmakers leary about Trump administration’s Anthropic order

Some panned it, some said they needed more information, but caution figured into all of the responses.

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