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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging messages from the [...]

By |2025-09-12T10:02:56-05:00September 5th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. We’ve since learned that these scam gambling sites have proliferated thanks to a new Russian affiliate program [...]

By |2025-08-29T08:49:38-05:00August 28th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet [...]

By |2025-08-29T08:25:51-05:00August 26th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years

A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025 to charges [...]

By |2025-08-27T02:09:06-05:00August 20th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Catch-IT: Latest Phishing Scam Using Docusign Platform

The NJCCIC received reports of a phishing scam abusing the legitimate Docusign platform and impersonating a New Jersey organization. In the Docusign envelope email notification, the impersonated organization’s name appears in the sender’s display name and the body of the email, and the sender’s domain name displays the legitimate [...]

By |2025-08-14T14:06:59-05:00August 14th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning they could be abused by malware or malcontents to gain remote access to a Windows system with little or [...]

By |2025-08-27T02:09:10-05:00August 12th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Antivirus vs. Internet Security: Know the Difference

Protecting your business’s digital assets is one of your biggest priorities, meaning you often have to ask yourself tough questions about the best way to keep things secure. Making the right choices becomes even more of a challenge when you aren’t a tech guru and only have a basic [...]

KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ HBO Max Series

A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the exploits of Julius Kivimäki, a prolific Finnish hacker recently convicted of leaking tens of thousands of patient records from an online psychotherapy practice while attempting to extort the [...]

By |2025-08-27T02:09:15-05:00August 8th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Attacks prompt immediate SonicWall SSL VPN deactivation warning – UPDATED

SonicWall said Monday that it is investigating whether a recent surge in attacks targeting its Gen 7 firewalls is related to a possible zero-day vulnerability or exploitation of an existing flaw.  The warnings follow an Aug. 1 Arctic Wolf report about hackers deploying the Akira ransomware variant in attacks that began on July [...]

By |2025-08-07T09:17:13-05:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?

On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of speculation and panic among XSS denizens [...]

By |2025-08-27T02:09:36-05:00August 6th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of [...]

By |2025-08-04T13:32:19-05:00July 30th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|
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