The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been criticized for procedural failings that exposed the personal data of its officers and other staff. Meanwhile, a fine of £750,000 ($984,000) has been issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The data protection watchdog highlighted the significant harm and distress caused to personnel by the incident,
Month: October 2024
ESET researchers observed several campaigns targeting governmental institutions in Thailand, starting in 2023. These attacks leveraged revamped versions of components previously attributed by other researchers to the China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group Mustang Panda, and later, a new set of tools that abuse service providers such as Pastebin, Dropbox, OneDrive, and GitHub to execute
Oct 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Financial Fraud INTERPOL has announced the arrest of eight individuals in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria as part of a crackdown on phishing scams and romance cyber fraud. Dubbed Operation Contender 2.0, the initiative is designed to tackle cyber-enabled crimes in West Africa, the agency said. One such threat involved a
Meta has announced what it claims to be a “first-of-its-kind” information-sharing agreement with UK banks in a bid to arrest a growing social media fraud epidemic. The Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange (FIRE) will see high street lenders share threat intelligence with the social media giant so that it can take more targeted action to remove
Business Security Building efficient recovery options will drive ecosystem resilience Tony Anscombe 01 Oct 2024 • , 4 min. read Last week, a US congressional hearing regarding the CrowdStrike incident in July saw one of the company’s executives answer questions from policy makers. One point that caught my interest during the ensuing debate was the
Oct 02, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware Three different organizations in the U.S. were targeted in August 2024 by a North Korean state-sponsored threat actor called Andariel as part of a likely financially motivated attack. “While the attackers didn’t succeed in deploying ransomware on the networks of any of the organizations affected, it is likely
Millions of Brits have fallen victim to fraud over the past three years, costing the wider economy an estimated £16bn ($21bn), according to a new study sponsored by Santander UK. The banking giant enlisted the help of cross-party think tank the Social Market Foundation (SMF) to poll 28,000 respondents across 15 European countries, to better understand
More than 140,000 phishing websites have been found linked to a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named Sniper Dz over the past year, indicating that it’s being used by a large number of cybercriminals to conduct credential theft. “For prospective phishers, Sniper Dz offers an online admin panel with a catalog of phishing pages,” Palo Alto Networks