CyberSecurity Blog

Vietnamese Hackers Hit Digital Marketers With Infostealers

ICYMI: Under Fire: US, UK and India; Attackers Often Wield DarkGate Infostealer Malware Vietnamese cybercrime groups are targeting the U.K., U.S. and Indian digital marketing sectors with multiple strains of information-stealing malware, including the widely used DarkGate infostealer. Phishing campaigns have used fake emails purporting to contain job opportunities and salary details.http://dlvr.it/SxlRsg

NYC Mayor Adams Unveils AI ‘Action Plan’

Adams Ridicules Worries About ‘Terminator’ While Touting AI Robocalls in Mandarin Techno-optimistic New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday unveiled a plan he said can convert the notoriously bureaucratic city administration into an AI powerhouse. AI presents a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to improve city services, the Democratic mayor said.http://dlvr.it/SxkdVw

Hackers Stole Access Tokens from Okta’s Support Unit

Okta, a company that provides identity tools like multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to thousands of businesses, has suffered a security breach involving a compromise of its customer support unit, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Okta says the incident affected a “very small number” of customers, however it appears the hackers responsible had access to Okta’s support…
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Vietnamese Hackers Hit Digital Marketers With Infostealers

Under Fire: US, UK and India; Attackers Often Wield DarkGate Infostealer Malware Vietnamese cybercrime groups are targeting the U.K., U.S. and Indian digital marketing sectors with multiple strains of information-stealing malware, including the widely used DarkGate infostealer. Phishing campaigns have used fake emails purporting to contain job opportunities and salary details.http://dlvr.it/Sxj3PQ

US House Panel: AI Regulation Begins With Privacy

ICYMI: House Committee Told to Relaunch Data Privacy Effort Launched Last Year The U.S. needs to pass federal legislation to establish a national framework of standards and a rules of the road for AI, but first passing federal data privacy legislation is an essential foundational part of that, some witnesses told members of Congress.http://dlvr.it/Sxh3l9

Arctic Wolf CEO on Why His Company Is Buying a SOAR Vendor

ICYMI: CEO Nick Schneider Says Revelstoke Buy Will Bring More Automation, AI Capabilities Arctic Wolf last week announced plans to buy SOAR platform provider Revelstoke in a move to boost Arctic Wolf’s automated response capabilities and lay the groundwork for “deeply embedded” AI and machine learning. CEO Nick Schneider explained how the deal will benefit…
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Nation-State Hackers Exploiting WinRAR, Google Warns

ICYMI: While RARLabs Patched Flaw, ‘Many Users’ Don’t Appear to Have Updated the Software Nation-state hackers are targeting a vulnerability in WinRAR, a popular Windows utility for archiving files, warns Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which said it has seen “government-backed hacking groups” who hail from multiple countries, including China and Russia, targeting the bug.http://dlvr.it/SxgMw6

Payment Fraud: What It Is and How to Fight It

ICYMI: In this episode of CyberEd.io’s podcast series “Cybersecurity Unplugged,” Alex Zeltcer of nSure.ai discusses how fraudsters access your payment information, how industrialized payment fraud attacks operate, and how nSure.ai uses discriminative AI to identify these attacks and cut their scale.http://dlvr.it/Sxg4Mj