I can’t say this enough. Supply chain risk. Third party risk. Vendor risk. It is all the same thing. Fixing it is a challenge. Ignoring it is NOT a solution. First, lets talk about what happened. Hackers who call themselves ShinyHunters, formerly Spider and Lapsus$, also called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, specializes in data theft, extortion […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Uvalde was already famous – too famous. You may remember that in 2022 Uvalde was the site of a mass shooting where 19 elementary school children and two teachers were killed and 17 more were injured. It is the third deadliest school shooting at an American school. Police were not trained and they waited for an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]09.11.25 Security News Bites 45 New Domains Linked to China’s Salt Typhoon Salt Typhoon is the group that hacked all the big telephone companies including the FBI’s wiretap portal. Recently the FBI says that the group hacked over 200 US companies. Now researchers have identified more domains being used by Salt Typhoon and another Chinese […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Want to know what the most in demand skill is on the underground job boards? English language social engineering. The ads on the boards doubled between last year and this year. One security CEO calls this Impersonation as a service or IaaS, not to be confused with the other IaaS, Infrastructure as a service. You […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Qubic Claims to Control Monero Mining Any blockchain is supposed to be unchangeable. That is unless you control the hashing function. The premise behind all blockchains is that there are a lot of independent hash systems which prevents collusion to change the data. If you can change the block data then it is like a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Consumers lost almost a billion dollars to Zelle fraud between 2017 and 2023. While that sounds like a lot, Zelle transferred over a trillion dollars last year. Zelle – officially Early Warning Services – is owned by the big banks including Wells, Chase, Bank of America and a few others. While many kinds of bank […]
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