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Cybercrime Rapper Sues Bank over Fraud Investigation

A partial selfie posted by Punchmade Dev to his Twitter account. Yes, that is a functioning handheld card skimming device, encrusted in diamonds. Underneath that are more medallions, including a diamond-studded bitcoin and payment card. In January, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about rapper Punchmade Dev, whose music videos sing the praises of [...]

By |2024-08-23T14:19:04-05:00August 7th, 2024|Categories: BMT Announcement|

3 Reasons Why Small Businesses Need Pen Testing

Pen testing involves attack simulation campaigns that replicate real-world attacks on the network in order to identify weaknesses.  By regularly testing your systems and network, you will be able to quickly identify and address vulnerabilities. Here are 3 primary reasons you need pen testing. Security While the big data breaches [...]

North Korean Hackers Moonstone Sleet Push Malicious JS Packages to npm Registry

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Moonstone Sleet has continued to push malicious npm packages to the JavaScript package registry with the aim of infecting Windows systems, underscoring the persistent nature of their campaigns. The packages in question, harthat-api and harthat-hash, were published on July 7, 2024, according [...]

By |2024-08-06T10:40:04-05:00August 6th, 2024|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Suspicious Minds: Insider Threats in The SaaS World

Everyone loves the double-agent plot twist in a spy movie, but it's a different story when it comes to securing company data. Whether intentional or unintentional, insider threats are a legitimate concern. According to CSA research, 26% of companies who reported a SaaS security incident were struck by an [...]

By |2024-08-06T10:38:31-05:00August 6th, 2024|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Low-Drama ‘Dark Angels’ Reap Record Ransoms

A ransomware group called Dark Angels made headlines this past week when it was revealed the crime group recently received a record $75 million data ransom payment from a Fortune 50 company. Security experts say the Dark Angels have been around since 2021, but the group doesn’t get much press [...]

By |2024-08-23T14:19:17-05:00August 5th, 2024|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Benefiting from CloudFlare’s New Tool

As AI tools become more sophisticated, protecting original content and intellectual property on your website is becoming increasingly difficult. AI bots are constantly scraping webs for data to train AI models, often using it without authorization or compensation. While many of the biggest names in AI, including Google, Apple, [...]

U.S. Trades Cybercriminals to Russia in Prisoner Swap

Twenty-four prisoners were freed today in an international prisoner swap between Russia and Western countries. Among the eight Russians repatriated were several convicted cybercriminals. In return, Russia has reportedly released 16 prisoners, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. Among those in the prisoner swap [...]

By |2024-08-23T14:19:28-05:00August 1st, 2024|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Don’t Let Your Domain Name Become a “Sitting Duck”

More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds. Image: Shutterstock. Your Web browser knows how [...]

By |2024-08-23T14:19:33-05:00July 31st, 2024|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Crooks Bypassed Google’s Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Access 3rd-Party Services

Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent the email verification required to create a Google Workspace account, and leverage that to impersonate a domain holder at third-party services that allow logins through Google’s “Sign in with Google” feature. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader [...]

By |2024-08-23T14:19:35-05:00July 26th, 2024|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Combating Top Cybersecurity Threats

Business owners fulfill customer and employee demands to stay competitive and relevant in a fast-paced economy, especially with many similar companies out there. However, the demands they should never fall victim to are those that come from hackers via ransomware or other cybersecurity threats. You may think risks to [...]

ChatGPT for Mac Users

Fancy yourself an early adopter who can't wait to snatch up the latest tech goodies? If so, you were probably all ears when OpenAI revealed ChatGPT to great fanfare in November 2022. Artificial intelligence has been around for ages, but ChatGPT promised to take this tech to a new [...]

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