Infosec products of the month: November 2024

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from: Absolute, Arkose Labs, Atakama, BlackFog, Eurotech, HiddenLayer, Hornetsecurity, Nirmata, Radware, Rakuten Viber, Symbiotic Security, Tanium, and Vectra AI. Ta… Continue reading Infosec products of the month: November 2024

New infosec products of the week: November 22, 2024

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Aon, Arkose Labs, HiddenLayer, Hornetsecurity, Radware, and Tanium. Arkose Device ID detects suspicious activity patterns By adding Arkose Device ID to the Arkos… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: November 22, 2024

Escalating cyber threats: Bots, fraud farms, and cryptojacking surge, urgently requiring attention

The motivations behind cyberattacks are as diverse as the methods employed. Whether driven by financial gain, political agendas, or sheer malice, cybercriminals exploit weaknesses in cybersecurity defenses, seeking entry points to compromise sensitive … Continue reading Escalating cyber threats: Bots, fraud farms, and cryptojacking surge, urgently requiring attention

Cybercrime operation that sold millions of fraudulent Microsoft accounts disrupted

Microsoft disrupted an alleged threat actor group that built viable cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) businesses. Dubbed Storm-1152 by Microsoft, the group bilked enterprises and consumers globally out of millions of dollars. Images of Storm-1152’s illici… Continue reading Cybercrime operation that sold millions of fraudulent Microsoft accounts disrupted

Cybercriminals turn to ready-made bots for quick attacks

Bots and human fraud farms were responsible for billions of attacks in the H1 of 2023 and into Q3, according to Arkose Labs. These attacks comprised 73% of all website and app traffic measured. In other words, almost three-quarters of traffic to digita… Continue reading Cybercriminals turn to ready-made bots for quick attacks

Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series of aggressive crypto spam campaigns that recently prompted several large Mastodon communities to temporarily halt new registrations. According to the hacker, their spam software has been in private use until the last few weeks, when it was released as open source code. Continue reading Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Infosec products of the month: February 2023

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from: Arkose Labs, Cequence Security, CyberGRX, CyberSaint, Deepwatch, DigiCert, Finite State, FireMon, Hornetsecurity, HYCU, KELA, Lacework, Malwarebytes, Netograph… Continue reading Infosec products of the month: February 2023