Nigerian Arrested, Charged in $7.5 Million BEC Scheme Targeting US Charities

A Nigerian national arrested in Ghana faces charges in the US for a BEC scheme involving two charitable organizations.
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3,500 Arrested, $300 Million Seized in International Crackdown on Online Fraud

Authorities in 34 countries have cooperated to dismantle cyber-enabled scams as part of a six-month operation.
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Norton Healthcare Ransomware Hack: 2.5 Million Personal Records Stolen

Compromised data includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health and insurance information, and driver’s license numbers.
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Opal Security Scores $22M Investment for IAM Technology

San Francisco startup gets fresh capital from Battery Ventures to compete in the crowded identity and access management space.
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Keyless Goes Independent, Raises $6M for Biometric Authentication

British startup building biometric authentication technology has snagged $6 million in a new round of funding led by Rialto Ventures.
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Attackers Can Use Modified Wikipedia Pages to Mount Redirection Attacks on Slack

Researchers document the Wiki-Slack attack, a new technique that uses modified Wikipedia pages to target end users on Slack.
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Darwinium Raises $18 Million for Edge-based Fraud Prevention Tech

Since launching in 2021, Darwinium has raised $26 million to build a bot and fraud prevention platform running on the perimeter edge.
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Prove Identity Snags $40M Funding for ID Verification Tech

Startup with roots in the ecommerce mobile payments space raises $40 million for digital identity verification and authentication technology.
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Extradited Russian Hacker Behind ‘NLBrute’ Malware Pleads Guilty

Russian hacker Dariy Pankov has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and now faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
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