Crooks stole driver’s license numbers from Geico auto insurer

Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Experts Say Ransomware Hasn’t Slowed Down Since Colonial Pipeline Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • June 2, 2021     JBS’s facility in Greeley, Colorado. (Photo: Mizzou CAFNR via Flickr/CC) The White House says on Tuesday it has contacted Russia regarding the ransomware attack against JBS SA, the…

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin sought to cool tensions in the combustible U.S.-Russian relationship at their first summit in Geneva on Wednesday, but the U.S. president drew a red line at cyberattacks, declaring them “off limits.” The two leaders emerged in mostly positive moods after more than three hours of talks, including two hours alone…

The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week added single-factor authentication to its list of bad practices. “Single-factor authentication is a common low-security method of authentication. It only requires matching one factor—such as a password—to a username to gain access to a system,” CISA says. While the agency mainly refers to “the…

Image: Francisco Gonzalez The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has warned of a massive increase in sextortion complaints since the start of 2021, resulting in total financial losses of more than $8 million until the end of July. The federal agency received over 16,000 sextortion complaints until July 31, almost half of them coming from…

A new report by researchers at a German university suggests that the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth powered Apple-to-Apple data transfer tech could expose your phone number and email address to a stranger who is in Wi-Fi range. All the stranger would need to do is be in range. Technische Universitat Darmstadt researchers suggest that simply opening…

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Hackers Used Backdoor to Access Production Environment Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • March 17, 2021     Email security vendor Mimecast, which was targeted by the SolarWinds supply chain hack in January, reports in a Tuesday update that the hackers used the “Sunburst” backdoor as…