Plus she has to cough up a slice of Pyongyang’s payday An Arizona woman who ran a laptop farm from her home – helping North Korean IT operatives pose as US-based remote workers – has been sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for her role in a $17 million fraud that hit more than 300 American companies.… READ MORE HERE…

Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users’ financial apps A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.… READ MORE HERE…

From scams to violence, the crimes extend beyond the digital realm A subset of an online group that recruits children and teens for contract shootings, kidnappings, and other real-life violent crimes poses a growing threat to youth, according to the FBI.… READ MORE HERE…

All security questions are hard to answer, but these three are non-negotiable Partner content  We’ve all seen those seemingly straightforward security questions that snowball into multi-day research projects across dozens of consoles, spreadsheets, and manual queries. The reality is that even the most fundamental security questions are notoriously difficult to answer with certainty.… READ MORE HERE…

Suggests buying local tech to avoid infosec worries China’s Ministry of State Security has spent the week warning of backdoored devices on land and at sea.… READ MORE HERE…