Information security experts say that China could retaliate against US tariff in a different way. What if President Xi calls in his army of hackers, rumored to be in the neighborhood of 300,000 to go after the United States? He could do this in one of two ways. The first way is to go after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is that person staring at you on Zoom really your boss? Or, is it a deep fake trying to get you to “gift” some hacker your company’s money? Last year that is exactly what happened to one Hong Kong company — to the tune of $25 million. iProov, a company that sells facial recognition identity […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It was always difficult to separate fact from fiction when it came to breach information. Too many players had their own agendas to know what was real. Now there is another player in the room and it is FEAR, UNCERTAINTY AND DOUBT. Over the past four months alone, the press, social media accounts, and some […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Flashpoint, a threat intelligence service, 2023 recorded 6,077 breaches compromising more than 17 billion records. That is a 35 percent increase over 2022. Again, according to Flashpoint, for the first two months of 2024, that number is up 429 percent over the first two months of 2023. The U.S. represented 60 percent of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware Morphs Again We know that ransomware has gone through a lot of iterations over the last couple of years as hackers try to maximize their revenue. The BlackCat group is now creating public websites for each victim company and has indexed the data to make it easy to search. I guess this means that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The last presidential administration went hard after China – applying sanction after sanction, but with minimal success. They also seemed to give Russia a free pass. Many of the very public recent hacks are being attributed to Russia, including SolarWinds and Kaseya. When Biden met with Putin in Helsinki last month, the two agreed to […]
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