A hacker on a Russian-speaking forum is selling hundreds of business executives' email and password combinations for Office 365 and Microsoft accounts for use in BEC scams.
The FBI calculated the cost of BEC attacks to be $43 billion, with a 65% increase between 2019 and 2021. Banks in Thailand, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore were the primary recipients of illicit funds.
A leading lobbying group in the Asia Pacific region is raising a warning about China's new proposed cyber security rules for financial firms, sending a letter to the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
Social Data, a data broker that appears to have been scraping social media sites for information, has exposed 235 million personal profiles in a data leak.
Singapore’s free student computers will come packed with a potentially unwelcome addition: a monitoring app that allows teachers to view and control the screens remotely.
TikTok continues to remain entangled in children's privacy issues, as an ongoing investigation by the FTC has now been referred to the DOJ for potential violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Collaborative international law enforcement effort appears to have at least temporarily crippled the notorious REvil ransomware gang, taking the group's Tor sites and dark web infrastructure off the internet and putting it beyond reach.
DreamHost database leak exposed nearly 815 million records of customer data from the WordPress hosting platform. User account and configuration information was exposed.
CISA added single-factor authentication to bad cybersecurity practices, adding that it was extremely risky for remote and administrative access to critical infrastructure.
Facebook CRO David Fischer declared that ad-supported services were "under assault" due to Apple privacy changes and that platforms depending on advertising revenue would be disproportionately damaged.
