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Raheim Hamilton, co-creator of the Empire Market dark web marketplace, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for facilitating over $430 million in illegal trades, highlighting ongoing law enforcement efforts against cybercrime. Hamilton's guilty plea included the forfeiture of $100 million in Bitcoin and assets. Additionally, the FBI has arrested the founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm, linked to the ShinyHunters hacking group, signaling a crackdown on organizations involved in ransomware negotiations. These developments underscore the increasing focus on dismantling criminal enterprises in the dark web and addressing ransomware threats.
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We always think we are more vulnerable than our fellow contemporaries! In general sense, this shows lack of confidence, but when you are dealing with security, this is one of the best traits you can have! Sounds strange, right! Let’s be honest, most security teams aren’t short on vulnerability data....
The new kit aims to address risks related to poisoned models, regulatory issues, supply chain integrity, and incident response.
The post Cisco Releases Open Source Tool for AI Model Provenance appeared first on SecurityWeek.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework for UK SMEs: A Practical Guide to Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is a useful way to organise cybersecurity work around business risk. For UK SMEs, that matters because most teams do not have the time or budget to do every...
Business email compromise (BEC) is still thriving even in organizations that have implemented multi-factor authentication (MFA). As security professionals, we often assume that MFA is the silver bullet for email security, but real-world incidents suggest otherwise. Attackers e...
Microsoft has released the KB5083631 optional cumulative update for Windows 11, which includes 34 changes, such as a new Xbox mode for Windows PCs, enhanced security and performance for batch files, and performance improvements for launching startup apps. [...]
I’ve been thinking about coal mines. How you dig a hole in the earth, extract everything valuable, leave a scar, and walk away. Then someone comes along decades later and says, what if we filled it with water and made it beautiful? Feels like a metaphor for something, but I can’t quite land it. Germ...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the sentencing of two cybersecurity professionals to four years each in prison for their role in facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks in 2023.
Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, and Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, were accused of deploying the r...
A new software supply chain attack campaign has been observed using sleeper packages as a conduit to subsequently push malicious payloads that enabled credential theft, GitHub Actions tampering, and SSH persistence.
The activity has been attributed to the GitHub account "BufferZoneCorp," which has p...
Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year
Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration of its new passport production contract, increasing it to a total of ÂŁ576 million as it starts a third round of engagemen...
Anthropic launched Claude Security to counter faster AI-driven cyberattacks, as tools like Mythos enable near-instant exploitation by threat actors. Anthropic introduced Claude Security to help defenders keep up with a surge in AI-powered cyberattacks. As models like Mythos drastically reduce the ti...
Explore how geofence warrants and AI-assisted searches challenge the Fourth Amendment. Can 18th-century privacy laws survive 21st-century digital surveillance?
The post Geofence Warrants and Artificial Intelligence – What Happens When Robots Enforce the 4th Amendment? appeared first on Security Bou...
Declining job satisfaction means that only one in three (34%) cybersecurity professionals plan to stay with their current employer, increasing the pressure on CISOs’ talent retention strategies.
And according to a survey of 500 cybersecurity professionals by IANS and Artico...
Cybersecurity financial risk is rising in commodity markets as breaches, data loss and espionage threaten operations and investor trust.
The post The Overlap of Cybersecurity and Financial Risk: Protecting Sensitive Data in Commodity Markets appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Artificial intelligence has had an immediate and profound impact on software development. Coding practices, coding tools, developer roles, and the software development process itself are all being reimagined as AI agents advance on every stage of the software development life...
The first time I approached an OT environment, I assumed that the strategies effective in IT cybersecurity would be equally applicable. I was wrong. The experience revealed a fundamental difference, highlighting the need for a distinct approach to OT cyber risk management....
SonicWall patches three SonicOS flaws in Gen 6, 7 and 8 firewalls. The company released firmware updates to block bypass attacks and unauthorized access. SonicWall released urgent firmware updates to fix three SonicOS vulnerabilities affecting Gen 6, Gen 7, and Gen 8 firewalls. The flaws could allow...
Threat actors are relying on social engineering to lure users into downloading files containing malicious instructions.
The post Hugging Face, ClawHub Abused for Malware Distribution appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A new alert from the FBI says criminal enterprises are hacking both brokers and carriers to steal cargo for resale.
The post FBI Warns of Surge in Hacker-Enabled Cargo Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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