Metro By Kevin Sheehan and Steve Janoski Published March 6, 2024 Updated March 6, 2024, 5:24 p.m. ET Four people were charged Wednesday with hiding pieces of two dead bodies that were hacked up with meat cleavers, then scattered across Long Island — but they were freed on supervised release in an “absurd result” blamed...Read More

A criminal claiming to be an ALPHV/BlackCat affiliate — the gang responsible for the widely disruptive Change Healthcare ransomware infection last month —  may have ties to Chinese government-backed cybercrime syndicates. Menlo Security this week linked Beijing to the cyberattack, which essentially left pharmacies across America unable to look up and process people’s health insurance,...Read More

The Play ransomware group leaked around 65,000 documents belonging to the federal government, including classified documents and login credentials, which were published on its dark web leak site on 14 June 2023. Following the cyberattack on Swiss IT service provider, Xplain, details of the leaked data have been disclosed in a press release from the...Read More

The South African Police Service(SAPS) warns of romance scammers, after a victim was swindled of an estimated R24 million. The 42-year-old Nigerian citizen was apprehended in Table View in Cape Town on Tuesday. ROMANCE SCAMMERS BIG PAY DAY According to police report, the victim- a Canadian citizen- claims she met the suspect who went under...Read More

Sponsored (Left to right) Deon Gordon (TechBirmingham), Willie Clemmons (EBSCO), Mayor Frank Brocato (City of Hoover) + Rish Wood (Catalyst Partners). (Southeast Cybersecurity Summit) Where can you hear firsthand from one of the world’s foremost cybersecurity experts, connect with the Southeast’s top tech leaders and learn about career opportunities? The answer is at the Southeast...Read More

Summary Collaboration is essential for effective organization-wide security, yet teams overlook its importance far too often.  This feature originally appeared on the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance blog. Why Collaboration Is Essential for Cybersecurity Teams Today’s cybersecurity workforce faces seemingly insurmountable workloads and increasing pressure to manage them quickly. At the same time, workflows often happen...Read More

The China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda orchestrated both watering hole and supply chain attacks targeting Tibetan users at least since September 2023. The end of the attacks is to deliver malicious downloaders for Windows and macOS that deploy a known backdoor called MgBot and a previously undocumented Windows implant known as Nightdoor. The...Read More

DALLAS (KDAF) — A new survey from IDShield, a leading identity theft protection service from LegalShield, has revealed that 7 out of 10 Americans who use dating apps have been scammed, losing money and risking their identity. Top Findings From the Survey: Men are falling victim more frequently (74%) than women (61%) $10,000 or more...Read More

In November we reported that Daiwa Securities, Japan’s largest security token underwriter, planned to trial digital securities on public blockchains. The digital bond was issued (and redeemed) in February and was the first in Japan to record transfer rights on a public blockchain. However, the experiments aimed to prevent the theft of security tokens when a hacker steals...Read More

Security researchers are increasingly seeing active exploit attempts using the latest vulnerabilities in JetBrains’ TeamCity that in some cases are leading to ransomware deployment. Brody Nisbet, director of threat hunting operations at security shop CrowdStrike, xeeted on Tuesday that telemetry was already showing signs of attacks using a suspected modified version of Jasmin ransomware. Rapid7...Read More