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The DOJ Charged Two Alleged Members of North Korea’s Military Intelligence Services With a Scheme That Included Attempts to Steal $1.3 Billion Over the Past Half-Decade for Pyongyang

Two alleged members of North Korea's military intelligence services were accused of hacking banks and companies in the U.S. and several other countries. The grand total for this scheme is ...

Redirection to Zero Days

Malvertisers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the browser engine used by Safari and other iOS apps, according to Eliya Stein at Confiant. The vulnerability, which was patched earlier ...

Microsoft Finds 80% of Organizations Encounter an Increase in Security Threats Due to Remote Workers

Learning from last year’s shift to a remote workforce can help dictate how operations should evolve. New data from Microsoft points at the need to better secure remote workers.

Microsoft: SolarWinds attack took more than 1,000 engineers to create

You may have missed this extremely interesting bit of data that ZDNet just published. "Microsoft reckons that the huge attack on security vendors and more took the combined power of at ...

Phishing and Impersonated Brands

Microsoft is still the most impersonated brand for phishing campaigns, according to researchers at Vade Secure. The security firm spotted 30,621 unique Microsoft-related phishing URLs in ...

Caught by a CAPTCHA?

Be aware of being involved in malicious CAPTCHA solving.

Dutch Intelligence Agencies Warn About Chinese and Russian Cyber Espionage

Chinese and Russian state hackers threaten the Dutch economy. Three Dutch intelligence agencies jointly sound the alarm about digital espionage in financial newspaper Het Financieele ...

[Scary?] AI Can Now Learn To Manipulate Human Behavior

The Conversation just published something I have been worried about for a while now. Scary? Could be getting that way sometime soon. They said: "Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning ...

Cannabis Company Loses Millions in BEC Scam

Australian medicinal cannabis company Cann Group has lost $3.6 million in a business email compromise (BEC) attack, Stockhead reports. The company had thought it was paying an unnamed ...

[World Premiere] KnowBe4’s New Season 3 of Netflix-Style Security Awareness Video Series - ‘The Inside Man’

We’re excited to announce Season 3 of the award-winning KnowBe4 Original Series - ‘The Inside Man’. This network-quality video training series delivers an entertaining learning experience ...