Despite significant investments in advanced technologies and employee training programs, credential and user-based attacks remain alarmingly prevalent, accounting for 50-80% of enterprise breaches [1] ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, who was sentenced to five years in prison in November 2024 after pleading guilty to charges tied to the 2016 Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange hack, was released from prison after ...

When Binance Co-CEO He Yi's WeChat account was hijacked and used to promote a memecoin, many dismissed it as just another crypto-world mishap. It was not. This breach exposed something far more ...

Back in October, word started making the rounds of an AI startup called Doublespeed. Backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Doublespeed offers customers a unique service: access to a ...

Amazon users are always a prime target for hackers, every pun intended, although it is usually phishing attacks that make the headlines. But what if I were to tell you that your Kindle could be used ...

This story starts with a fellow PIRG staffer, a victim of hacking who turned to us after noticing a potential flaw with the security practices of TransUnion, one of the “big 3” nationwide credit ...

SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase. By Rob Copeland Stacy Cowley ...

Thousands of undocumented workers rely on fraudulent Social Security numbers. One of them belonged to Dan Kluver. Dan Kluver discovered that another man in another state was moving through the world ...

Data from Italy's national railway operator, the FS Italiane Group, has been exposed after a threat actor breached the organization's IT services provider, Almaviva. The hacker claims to have stolen 2 ...

Brett Johnson made millions committing identity theft for a living before joining the Secret Service as a consultant. The three rising cyber threats that alarm him most — deepfakes, scam farms, and ...

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