Bain and Crosspoint Capital acquire ExtraHop in $900M deal

Business Email Compromise (BEC) , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Company Says West African Group Used Homoglyph Techniques to Trick Victims Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • July 21, 2021     Microsoft has announced the takedown of 17 domains that a threat group operating out of West Africa used to host fake Microsoft…

Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response , Legislation & Litigation Judge Says Users Agreed With Arbitration When Accepting Terms and Conditions Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 3, 2021     Zynga develops mobile games such as Words With Friends 2 (Photo: Zynga) Yet another lawsuit filed in the wake of a…

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management Agency Says Exploits Pose ‘Unacceptable Risk’ Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • April 21, 2021     The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an emergency directive requiring executive branch agencies to mitigate by Friday the risks posed by a zero-day vulnerability…

A new Android Trojan codenamed FlyTrap has hit at least 140 countries since March 2021 and has spread to over 10,000 victims through social media hijacking, third-party app stores, and sideloaded applications. Zimperium’s zLabs mobile threat research teams recently found several previously undetected applications using Zimperium’s z9 malware engine and on-device detection. Following their forensic…

Researchers Link CryptoCore Attacks On Cryptocurrency Exchanges to North Korea | IT Security News 24. May 2021 This article has been indexed from The Hacker News State-sponsored hackers affiliated with North Korea have been behind a slew of attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges over the past three years, new evidence has revealed.Attributing the attack with “medium-high”…

This article has been indexed from E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News   The Boston Public Library (BPL) announced on 27th August that its network was compromised on Wednesday, resulting in a system-wide technical outage. BPL stated that the current technical disruption was triggered by a cyberattack on its servers…