Novel phishing campaign uses corrupted Word documents to evade security
A novel phishing attack abuses Microsoft's Word file recovery feature by sending corrupted Word documents as email attachments, allowing them…
Ben Bankas can’t take a joke
Ben Bankas pondered fascism as he waited for the Cybertruck. His enemies on the left have branded his comedy “right-wing…
Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier
Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting dozens of companies that used the cloud data…
Salt Typhoon Builds Out Malware Arsenal With GhostSpider
The APT, aka Earth Estries, is one of China's most effective threat actors, performing espionage for sometimes years on end…
Faux ChatGPT, Claude API Packages Deliver JarkaStealer
Attackers are betting that the hype around generative AI (GenAI) is attracting less technical, less cautious developers who might be…
The Future of Cybersecurity: Predictions for 2025 and Beyond
by Gary S. Miliefsky, CISSP, fmDHS As the publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine, I have a great honor and pleasure…
Bitfinex hacker gets 5 years in prison for 120,000 bitcoin heist
A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five…
Fraud network uses 4,700 fake shopping sites to steal credit cards
A financially motivated Chinese threat actor dubbed "SilkSpecter" is using thousands of fake online stores to steal the payment card…
New Glove infostealer malware bypasses Chrome’s cookie encryption
New Glove Stealer information-stealing malware can bypass Google Chrome's Application-Bound (App-Bound) encryption to steal browser cookies. [...]
Hacker gets 10 years in prison for extorting US healthcare provider
Robert Purbeck, a 45-year-old man from Idaho, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for hacking at least 19…