Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist and 2016 campaign manager for President Donald Trump, and three others have been indicted on federal wire fraud and money laundering charges for allegedly fleecing online donors who contributed money to a campaign to build a wall along the U.S. southern border.
Criminals are devising ways to circumvent fraud-fighting measures that use artificial intelligence, says Avivah Litan, a vice president at Gartner Research, who discusses mitigation strategies.
Never store hardcoded credentials in code uploaded to public-facing GitHub repositories, and make sure none of your business associates are doing that. Those are just two takeaways from a new report that describes how nine organizations were inadvertently exposing health records for at least 150,000 patients.
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing big businesses to rethink their security plans. For example, the National Football League is experimenting with "zero trust" architectures, while Jet Blue is focusing on more frequent risk assessments.
A P2P botnet dubbed "FritzFrog" has breached about 500 SSH servers, infecting universities in the U.S. and Europe and a railway company in an effort to plant cryptomining malware, Guardicore Labs reports. The botnet has also tried to infect banks, medical centers, governmental offices and others.
A recently uncovered cryptomining botnet now also has the capability to steal Amazon Web Services user credentials, according to the security firm Cado.
Implementing an adaptive, risk-based authentication process for remote system access is proving effective as more staff members work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, says Ant Allan, a vice president and analyst at Gartner.
The growing use of biometric technology is raising concerns about privacy as well as identity theft and fraud, says attorney Paul Hales, who reviews recent legal and legislative developments.
The Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday released its fifth and final report on Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election, providing more details on how Russian hackers resided on Democratic National Commitee servers for months and citing shortcomings in the FBI's investigation.
Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise ship company, is investigating a ransomware attack that likely compromised customer and employee data, according its filing with the SEC. It's the company's second security incident this year.
Copycats using well-known threat actor names, such as Fancy Bear and Armada Collective, are launching extortion campaigns tied to distributed denial-of-service attacks against financial institutions, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence Research Team.
Ransomware gangs continue to see bigger payoffs from their ransom-paying victims, driven by "big-game hunting," data exfiltration and smaller players seeking larger returns, according to ransomware incident response firm Coveware.
A hacking group dubbed "CatusPete" is now using a revamped backdoor called Bisonal to target banks and military organizations in Eastern Europe, according to Kaspersky. Security analysts have previously tied the group to China.
The Canadian government is investigating two credential-stuffing incidents that affected some of the country's most essential services, including taxation, healthcare, welfare benefits and immigration.
Scammers have reportedly been putting one over on customers of the famous Ritz London, which says it is "aware of a potential data breach within our food and beverage reservation system, which may have compromised some of our clients' personal data." No payment card data was exposed, it says.
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