The Cybercrimes 2024 report published by Chainalysis, a blockchain data platform has again highlighted some interesting trends concerning North Korea cyberattacks. The report has identified a substantial decrease in money laundering by North Korean hackers like the Kimsuky and Lazarus. The hacked amount is almost USD 1 billion in 2023 as compared to USD 1.7...Read More

A financially motivated hacker group, tracked as Magnet Goblin, has been using cracked public-facing servers through 1-day exploitations to drop custom Linux malware, according to CheckPoint. One of the group’s primary exploits included the Ivanti Connect Secure RCE bug, tracked as CVE-2024-21887, that the VPN solutions provider said had active zero-day exploitations. “Magnet Goblin quickly adopts and...Read More

FLASH SALE Don’t miss this deal Standard Digital Access $6 for 1 year Already a subscriber? Login Looking for romance online can find you a soulmate, but it can also be a financial trap for the unwary. Scammers often lurk on dating sites posing as potential partners for love. Some fraudsters will use your publicly...Read More

Grey Bruce OPP are using Fraud Prevention month, which is March, to highlight some of the most common scams being reported. OPP report they are dealing with an increase in the number of calls for service regarding romance scams. Police stated that criminals look for victims online who are single or recently unattached, often through...Read More

More than 3,000 WordPress-powered websites were compromised as a result of not patching a known vulnerability fast enough, a report from cybersecurity researchers Sucuri and PublicWWW has claimed. Sucuri says that over the past couple of weeks, unnamed threat actors were leveraging a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-6000 to redirect people to malicious websites. This vulnerability,...Read More

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The Finals is about to get even more chaotic with the launch of Season 2 on March 14, when it will introduce a slew of new hacker-themed abilities that sound like serious game-changers. Season 2 sees the “game show” players participate under siege by a rogue hacker collective called CNS, which are looking to disrupt...Read More

Getting your account hacked or stolen is one of the worst nightmares of any social media user. All social platforms have preset instructions in place for serving hacking victims. Meanwhile, Facebook and Instagram users should have gone to great lengths to take back their compromised accounts, according to Engadget. A coalition of 41 state attorneys...Read More

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Florida’s social media bill, set to be signed into law, will take effect Jan. 1, 2025. Children who are 14 or 15 years old will need parental permission to be on most social media sites. Any child under that age will be banned. “I like that they (lawmakers) put the...Read More

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency hacked Ivanti vulnerabilities were used to access two CISA systems, but the identity of the hacker remains unknown. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed it has fallen victim to an unidentified hacker, warning that two of its systems were compromised some time in February. According...Read More