by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 29, 2025 | IT Security
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized over $8.2 million worth of USDT (Tether) cryptocurrency that was stolen via ‘romance baiting’ scams. Previously referred to as ‘pig butchering,’ in this type of financial fraud victims are...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 29, 2025 | IT Security
Malware authors looking to evade analysis are turning to less popular programming languages like Delphi or Haskell. Computer scientists affiliated with the University of Piraeus and Athena Research Center in Greece and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 28, 2025 | IT Security
Sam’s Club, an American warehouse supermarket chain owned by U.S. retail giant Walmart, is investigating claims of a Clop ransomware breach. The Walmart division operates over 600 warehouse clubs with millions of members across the United States and Puerto Rico...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 28, 2025 | IT Security
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has announced a fivefold increase in the maximum bug bounty rewards for “exceptional and differentiated” critical security vulnerabilities from $20,000 to $100,000. OpenAI says its services and platforms are used by...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 28, 2025 | IT Security
A newly discovered phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation that researchers call Morphing Meerkat, has been using the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol to evade detection. The platform also leverages DNS email exchange (MX) records to identify victims’ email providers and...
by Syndicated News Feed | Mar 28, 2025 | IT Security
Cardiff City Council’s director of children’s services says data was leaked or stolen from the organization, although she did not clarify how or what was pilfered. Deborah Driffield confirmed a “data breach” while giving an update to the...
