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I’ve identified RondoDox v2, a significant evolution of the RondoDox botnet first documented by FortiGuard Labs in September 2024. This new variant demonstrates a dramatic expansion in capabilities,

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Flock said around 3% of its law enforcement customers do not use multi-factor authentication, potentially leaving dozens of law enforcement agency accounts open to compromise and improper access.

55 cuffed last week after court ruled sting operation was legal Australian police last week made 55 arrests using evidence gathered with a backdoored messaging app that authorities distributed in the criminal community.…

This is not what people mean when they say: 'You should get a side hustle' A ransomware negotiator and an incident response manager at two separate cybersecurity firms have been indicted for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks of their own against multiple US companies.…

The Balancer Protocol announced that hackers had targeted its v2 pools, with losses reportedly estimated to be more than $128 million. [...]

Cornell University’s academic paper repository will no longer accept Computer Science papers still under review.

Threat actors are targeting freight brokers and trucking carriers with malicious links and emails to deploy remote monitoring and management tools (RMMs) that enable them to hijack cargo and steal physical goods. [...]

But question marks remain over the tech’s biases London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says the hundreds of live facial recognition (LFR) deployments across the Capital last year led to 962 arrests, according to a new report on the controversial tech's use.…

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Caller ID spoofing has become one of Europe’s most persistent enablers of cyber fraud. A new position paper from Europol warns that manipulated phone identities now drive much of the continent’s financial and social engineering crime, making it difficult for law enforcement to track perpetrators. The agency estimates global losses at around EUR 850 million a year, with phone and text-based fraud accounting for roughly two thirds of reported scam cases. A network flooded with … More → The post Europe’s phone networks are drowning in fake calls appeared first on Help Net Security.

AI, SaaS, and personal devices are changing how people get work done, but the tools that protect company systems have not kept up, according to 1Password. Tools like SSO, MDM, and IAM no longer align with how employees and AI agents access data. The result is what researchers call the “access-trust gap,” a growing distance between what organizations think they can control and how employees and AI systems access company data. The survey tracks four … More → The post Employees keep finding new ways around company access controls appeared first on Help Net Security.