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The United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has sanctioned Xinbi, a Chinese-language cryptocurrency-based online marketplace that sells stolen data and satellite internet equipment to scam networks in Southeast Asia. [...]
Russian police arrested a Taganrog resident believed to be the owner of LeakBase, a major online forum used by cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and hacking tools. [...]
Cloud Android phones fuel financial fraud, evading detection and enabling dropper accounts
Cybersecurity has changed fast. Roles are more specialized, and tooling is more advanced. On paper, this should make organizations more secure. But in practice, many teams struggle with the same basic problems they faced years ago: unclear risk priorities, misaligned tooling decisions, and difficulty explaining security issues in terms the business understands. These challenges do not
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The UK’s financial regulator has issued new rules to make incident and third-party reporting clearer
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Ericsson data breach affects 15k employees/customers after third-party service provider compromise
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A global operation has resulted in the takedown of popular cybercrime forum LeakBase
Cloudflare Threat Report warns that AI tools enable attackers who lacked required skills to generate effective attacks rapidly and at scale
Ariomex database reveals potential sanctions evasion and capital transfers tied to Iranian actors
Black Kite reveals 26,000 unnamed corporate victims linked to 136 third-party breaches
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Security researchers have challenged end-to-end encryption claims from popular commercial password managers
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