U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer
A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based...
Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys
Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “Zeppelin” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected...
Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All
A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode, an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin...
Top Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva
Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov, the accused 40-year-old Ukrainian leader of a prolific cybercriminal group that stole tens of millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses in the United States and Europe, has been arrested in Switzerland, according to multiple...
Lawsuit Seeks Food Benefits Stolen By Skimmers
A nonprofit organization is suing the state of Massachusetts on behalf of thousands of low-income families who were collectively robbed of more than a $1 million in food assistance benefits by card skimming devices secretly installed at cash machines...
Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition
Let’s face it: Having “2022 election” in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. Still, while most of us here in the United States are anxiously awaiting the results of how well...
LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates
Responding to a recent surge in AI-generated bot accounts, LinkedIn is rolling out new features that it hopes will help users make more informed decisions about with whom they choose to connect. Many LinkedIn profiles now display a creation...
Hacker Charged With Extorting Online Psychotherapy Service
A 25-year-old Finnish man has been charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy company and its patients. Finnish authorities rarely name suspects in an investigation, but they were willing to make an exception for Julius “Zeekill”...
Accused ‘Raccoon’ Malware Developer Fled Ukraine After Russian Invasion
A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon, a popular “malware-as-a-service” offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from...
Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn
On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment...
How Card Skimming Disproportionally Affects Those Most In Need
When people banking in the United States lose money because their payment card got skimmed at an ATM, gas pump or grocery store checkout terminal, they may face hassles or delays in recovering any lost funds, but they are...
Anti-Money Laundering Service AMLBot Cleans House
AMLBot, a service that helps businesses avoid transacting with cryptocurrency wallets that have been sanctioned for cybercrime activity, said an investigation published by KrebsOnSecurity last year helped it shut down three dark web services that secretly resold its technology...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2022 Edition
Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 85 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a new zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is being actively exploited. However, noticeably absent from...
Report: Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims
When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data...
Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots
A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site, and for companies that rely on it to hire and screen prospective employees. The fabricated LinkedIn identities —...
Gartner: How to Respond to the 2022 Cyberthreat Landscape
A new Gartner® report, How to Respond to the 2022 Cyberthreat Landscape, focuses on the new threats organizations will face as they prepare for the future of work and accelerate digital transformations. Gartner’s advice will help security and risk...
Gartner MQ WAAP 2022
Research shows that web applications and API attacks continued to explode in the first half of 2022. Does your organization have the best defense today? Akamai recommends deploying a holistic web application and API protection (WAAP) solution. The right...
How Akamai Helps to Mitigate the OWASP API Security Top 10 Vulnerabilities
Experts warn that API attacks will soon become the most common type of web application attack. As a result, organizations and their security vendors need to align across people, processes, and technologies to institute the right protections. The Open...
What is Account Takeover and How to Prevent It in 2022
An account takeover (ATO), in which criminals impersonate legitimate account owners to take control of an account, are on the rise in Asia and across the world. Fraudsters are swindling money and digital assets from consumers across industries, with...
The OWASP Top 10 – How Akamai Helps
OWASP publishes a list of the 10 most common vulnerabilities in web applications. This white paper details how Akamai can help mitigate these threat vectors.
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