North Koreans Attacking Crypto With Social Engineering Because … that is where the money is. The FBI says they are using highly tailored, difficult to detect social engineering campaigns. In spite of the so-called technical expertise of these targeted companies these attacks are effective. Credit: The Record August Ransomware Attack Causes Stoli Vodka to File […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the entire US Senate was briefed this week about the Chinese attack called Salt Typhoon on US and other telecom and Internet carriers, the feds are trying to figure out what to do. This is going to be the job of the next administration because I doubt Congress can create a solution in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The United States has historically had a “challenging” supply chain. It has, for at least decades, depended on supplies from counties that are either not stable or not friendly or neither. While we have worked to try to REDUCE that dependency, we are very far from eliminating it. Yesterday the President ratcheted up the curbs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Inquiring minds want to know, as the expression goes. The real question is how quickly can you detect and respond to the exploitation of exposed keys? I bet it is a lot longer than it takes the hackers to find them. Here is what the researchers did. They did a “candy drop” – dropped keys […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Musk Admits to Making It Harder to Read News on X We only post blogs to Twitter anymore to support our current followers. Musk wants you to upload your content to Twitter so that he controls it and you never leave the platform. If you include a link in a post, it will be deprioritized. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this particular study talks specifically about cryptocurrency companies, the trends are obvious and the impact to you and me are, unfortunately, similar. First what the crypto folks are seeing. 57 percent of crypto companies report audio deepfake incidents. 53 percent of crypto companies have encountered video deepfake fraud. This points to the very rapid […]
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