Employees screw up frequently. They fall for phishing attacks, or click on links they shouldn’t click on. And in some cases, funds get wired to fraudulent accounts. But how often have you read about an employee having to replace stolen funds? WKBN in Ohio reports: A Trumbull County judge has ordered County Auditor Martha Yoder…
Category: Phishing
Kyiv Region Police Expose Hackers Who Infected Notaries’ Computers with Viruses and Changed Data in State Registries
As reported on dev.ua: In the Kyiv region, police detained a group of hackers who gained remote access to the devices of state bailiffs and private notaries and, for a fee, illegally removed encumbrances imposed on citizens’ property. According to the Cyber Police, four suspects, one of whom was a private contractor, set up a scheme…
Florida man known as “King Bob” pleads guilty to charges related to cryptocurrency theft
News4Jax reports: A 20-year-old Palm Coast man linked to a massive cybercriminal gang pleaded guilty in a Jacksonville federal courtroom Friday morning to charges including conspiracy and wire fraud. Noah Urban faced charges in two separate federal cases: charges in Florida that were unsealed in January 2024, and charges in southern California that were announced in…
A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
Troy Hunt, owner of HaveIBeenPwned.com, writes: You know when you’re really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow? That’s me right now, and the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish has grabbed my credentials, logged into my account and exported the…
Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger
Dan Black of Google’s Threat Intelligence Group writes: Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia’s intelligence services. While this emerging operational interest has likely been sparked by wartime demands to gain access to sensitive government…
Operation Heart Blocker: Disruption action deals blow to criminal cyber network HeartSender
During a disruption action on January 29, 2025, HeartSender servers and domains were seized by various police services. HeartSender is the name of a group of phishing software makers. The Cybercrime Team of the East Brabant police unit started an investigation at the end of 2022, after phishing software was found on the computer of…