The "day-to-day" of organized crimes is increasingly being moved online and optimized with AI-powered tools: things like communication, payments to partners, and recruitment of new operatives.
Europol's cybercrime report names privacy coins and wallets, and decentralized markets as the top cyber threats. These privacy-enhanced digital services made it more challenging for law enforcement agencies.
Security researchers have discovered an EvilProxy phishing campaign targeting 120,000 Microsoft 365 users with a focus on business executives with access to financial assets or sensitive information.
Evolve Bank and Trust has confirmed a LockBit data breach after the Russian ransomware group published the stolen records containing personal information on the dark web.
Study indicates that many internet users may be willing to sell their online privacy at very affordable rates, indicating that the value of personal data is not particularly high.
The crux of the privacy objections is that the executive order does not guarantee that indiscriminate collection will be stopped; it merely attempts to narrow the scope of intelligence activity in EU-US data transfers.
The White House may be at risk of cyber attacks with the recent exodus of at least a dozen senior officials from the cyber security team and the removal of duties and security privileges of those remaining.
Credit rating agency Experian's Netherlands branch has been assessed a €2.7 million (about $3.2 million) GDPR fine for improper collection of personal data, which was drawn from multiple public and private sources that data subjects were not necessarily aware of.
Verizon prepaid customers suffered a SIM swap attack after hackers breached their accounts using the last four digits of their credit card numbers likely obtained via stolen employee accounts.
Misconfigured AWS account exposed data from niche dating apps affecting millions of users, leaking over 20 million files amounting to 845 GB of sensitive information including personal details, images and private conversations.
