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Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums.…

A British national known online as "IntelBroker" has been charged by the U.S. for stealing and selling sensitive data from dozens of victims, causing an estimated $25 million in damages. [...]

60% of enterprise SaaS and AI applications operate outside IT’s visibility, according to CloudEagle.ai. This surge in invisible IT is fueling a crisis in AI identity governance, leading to increased breaches, audit failures, and compliance risk across enterprises. A survey of 1,000 enterprise CIOs and CISOs shows a shift: most security breaches now start inside the organization. The main problems are too many user permissions, unused accounts, and poor identity management. Manual onboarding, rare access … More → The post Most AI and SaaS apps are outside IT’s control appeared first on Help Net Security.

People may assume synthetic identity fraud has no victims. They believe fake identities don’t belong to real people, so no one gets hurt. But this assumption is wrong. What is synthetic identity fraud? Criminals create fake identities by combining stolen pieces of personal information such as Social Security numbers, names, and birthdates. This type of fraud is often called Frankenstein fraud because it stitches together real and fake components to form a new, convincing identity. … More → The post When synthetic identity fraud looks just like a good customer appeared first on Help Net Security.

Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll.

Two emergency patches issued in two weeks Hot on the heels of patching a critical bug in Citrix-owned Netscaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that one security researcher dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," the embattled networking device vendor today issued an emergency patch for yet another super-serious flaw in the same products — but not before criminals found and exploited it as a zero-day.…

Nearly 50% of companies paid the ransom to recover their data, the second-highest rate in six years, according to Sophos. How actual payments stack up with the initial demand Ransom payments and recovery costs are on the decline Despite the high percentage of companies that paid the ransom, 53% paid less than the original demand. In 71% of cases where the companies paid less, they did so through negotiation, either through their own negotiations or … More → The post Companies negotiate their way to lower ransom payments appeared first on Help Net Security.

As cars increasingly become computers on wheels, the attack surface for digital malfeasance increases. [PCAutomotive] has shared its exploit for turning the 2020 Nissan Leaf into 1600 kg RC car. …read more

What kind of Mario villain would steal from a local library?

What happens in the privacy of your own home stays there. Or does it?

Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.

Researchers found Meta’s popular Llama 3.1 70B has a capacity to recite passages from 'The Sorcerer's Stone' at a rate much higher than could happen by chance.