Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Government Final Round of Negotiations Set to Begin on Monday Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • January 26, 2024     Civil society is warning that a draft United Nations cybercrime treaty would be counterproductive. (Image: Shutterstock) A draft international cybercrime treaty set to enter a final round of negotiations…

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development British Lawmakers Call on Government to Boost Protections From AI Scams Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • January 23, 2024     The U.K. National Cyber Security Center said cyberthreat actors are not likely to make advanced use of AI before 2025. (Image: Shutterstock) Generative artificial…

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Cybercrime Groups Hire VexTrio to Help Route Victims to Their Malicious Content Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • January 23, 2024     A fake dating page that leads to malicious content and is tied to the malicious traffic broker VexTrio (Image: Infoblox) As if the cybercrime ecosystem wasn’t already…

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) has evolved significantly over the past few years, becoming more critical than ever for organizations in need of enhanced capabilities. But so, too, have the accompanying managed services evolved. Port53 Technologies President Omar Zarabi explains. In an interview with ISMG, Zarabi discussed: The evolution of XDR; The new…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Training & Security Leadership Build Resiliency by Simulating Real-World Attacks and Gaining Insight Into Threats CyberEdBoard • January 22, 2024     Ian Keller, security director and CyberEdBoard executive member As cyberthreats keep evolving, mobile network operators need offensive security to maintain resilience. Traditional security approaches, such as firewalls and encryption,…

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Extortion Money Found in Bank Account of Aleksanteri Kivimaki, Prosecutors Say Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • January 22, 2024     Aleksanteri Kivimäki in a Finnish courtroom on Feb. 28, 2023 Prosecutors trying the case of a Finnish national accused of attempting to extort tens of thousands of psychotherapy patients…

Merck & Co.’s proposed settlement with insurers over a $1.4 billion claim related to the NotPetya attack will change the language the insurance industry uses to exclude acts of war in its policies, and organizations need to consider how those changes affect risk, said attorney Peter Halprin. The settlement will resolve an ongoing legal dispute…

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and large language models are not new, but they are coming to fruition with the mass adoption of generative AI. For cybersecurity professionals, these are “exciting times we live in,” said Dan Grosu, chief technology officer and chief information security officer at Information Security Media Group. Enterprises have always collected…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Self-Proclaimed Russian Hacktivists Continue Putin-Aligned Information Operations Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • January 18, 2024     The Swiss federal government based in Bern – pictured – says online attackers temporarily disrupted some its public-facing websites. (Image: Shutterstock) Russia’s strategy of attempting…

Cryptocurrency Fraud , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Social Media All Organizations That Use X Should Review Their Two-Factor Authentication Settings Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • January 11, 2024     Are we seeing the impact of X’s cancellation of SMS-based two-factor authentication for free accounts? (Image: Shutterstock) When it comes to cybersecurity, nobody’s perfect,…