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India tops the charts for document theft The number of stolen Asian credit card numbers appearing on darkweb crime marts has fallen sharply. cyber security firm Group-IB told Singapore’s ATxSG conference on Thursday.… READ MORE HERE…

If the chocolate factory’s scans don’t stop the miners, customers don’t foot the bill Google Cloud has put $1 million on the table to cover customers’ unauthorized compute expenses stemming from cryptomining attacks if its sensors don’t spot these illicit miners.… READ MORE HERE…

AI technology raises the bar in an already troubling crime Miscreants are using AI to create faked images of a sexual nature, which they then employ in sextortion schemes.… READ MORE HERE…

Spies gonna spy Feature  The world got a first glimpse into the US government’s far-reaching surveillance of American citizens’ communications – namely, their Verizon telephone calls – 10 years ago this week when Edward Snowden’s initial leaks hit the press.… READ MORE HERE…

Nearly anything can look like money laundering if you squint hard enough Three supporters of activists against a $90 million police training facility dubbed Cop City were arrested after the cops used PayPal data to bring money-laundering charges against the trio.… READ MORE HERE…

AI is beefing up the cyber arsenals of both attackers and defenders Sponsored Feature  Email is a popular target for cybercriminals, offering an easy way of launching an attack disguised as an innocent message. One moment of inattention on the part of the recipient and the door is open to malware, spam, phishing, perhaps even a dose of the dreaded ransomware. Entire organisations can suffer, not just individual victims.… READ MORE HERE…

Microsoft blames Clop ransomware crew for theft of staff info British Airways, the BBC, and UK pharmacy chain Boots are among the companies whose data has been compromised after miscreants exploited a critical vulnerability in deployments of the MOVEit document-transfer app.… READ MORE HERE…

Operators stay ahead of defenders with new access methods and C2 infrastructure The Qbot malware operation – which started more than a decade ago as banking trojan only to evolve into a backdoor and a delivery system for ransomware and other threats – continues to deftly adapt its techniques to stay ahead of security pros, according to a new report.… READ MORE HERE…

Living in the eye of the geopolitical storm is not easy, but is good for business In late September 2021, staff at Taiwanese threat intelligence company TeamT5 noticed something very nasty: a fake news report accusing it of conducting phishing attacks against Japan’s government and local tech companies.… READ MORE HERE…

‘World’s first and only’ orbiting infosec playpen due to blast off today Feature  Assuming the weather and engineering gods cooperate, a US government-funded satellite dubbed Moonlighter will launch at 1235 EDT (1635 UTC) on Saturday, hitching a ride on a SpaceX rocket before being releasing into Earth’s orbit.… READ MORE HERE…