Five plead guilty to helping North Koreans pretend to be US-based IT workers

engadget - The US Department of Justice has announced that five people have pleaded guilty to helping North Koreans defraud US companies by pretending to be US-based remote workers. North Korea has previously used fake identities and the direct manipulation of US cy…

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Anthropic warns of AI-driven hacking campaign linked to China

go - Researchers at an artificial intelligence firm say they've found the first reported case of foreign hackers using AI to automate portions of cyberattacks

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Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude AI to Automate Cyber Espionage Campaign

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic reports that Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its Claude AI to autonomously execute a large-scale cyber espionage campaign, marking a new era of AI-driven threats.The post Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude AI to Automate Cyber Espionag…

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As banks face an “invisible enemy”, London’s FALKIN raises €1.7 million to stop fraud before it starts

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - FALKIN, a British digital safety company that helps users stop scams before payments happen, has today announced it has secured €1.7 million ($2 million) in pre-Seed funding amid rising regulatory and consumer pressure for proactive scam-prevention measur…

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Meta is making billions of dollars from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, report says

engadget - Meta is making billions of dollars every year from ads marketing scams and illegal products on its platform, according to a new report from Reuters. The report details the staggering numbers behind scam ads on Meta's platform, and raises fresh questions a…

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Google warns that a new era of self-evolving, AI-driven malware has begun

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - A new report out today from Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group warns that there has been a major shift in cybercrime as attackers are no longer using artificial intelligence solely for productivity but are now deploying AI-enabled malware directly in …

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Russian Hackers Abuse Hyper-V to Hide Malware and Evade Endpoint Detection

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Russian-linked hackers, Curly COMrades, are abusing Microsoft Hyper-V to deploy malware in hidden Linux VMs, bypassing EDR to conduct stealthy espionage.The post Russian Hackers Abuse Hyper-V to Hide Malware and Evade Endpoint Detection appeared first on …

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‘We got hacked’ emails threaten to leak University of Pennsylvania data

Lawrence Abrams / bleepingcomputer - The University of Pennsylvania suffered a cybersecurity incident on Friday, where students and alumni received a series of offensive emails from various University email addresses, claiming that data was stolen in a breach. [...]

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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of invol…

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How iCloud backups helped expose a mob-and NBA-linked poker cheating scandal

appleinsider - Digital evidence stored in iCloud played a key role in exposing a multistate poker-rigging scheme tied to organized crime and NBA players. Here's how, and what evidence was uncovered.iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker schemeFederal investigators us…

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Catastrophic Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack to cost UK economy at least $2.5 billion, according to estimates — 5,000 independent organizations decimated by supply chain fallout

tomshardware - The hack of British car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, has cost the UK economy as much as $2.5 billion, affecting more than 5,000 organizations as the breach brought the company and its entire supply chain to their knees.

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Acoru Raises €10M To Combat Money Mules And Prevent Financial Fraud

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Madrid-based Acoru, a startup building technology to prevent AI-driven fraud and money laundering, has secured €10 million in a Series A round led by 33N Ventures, with participation from existing investors Adara Ventures and Athos Capital. Generative AI …

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What to Know About the Shocking Louvre Jewelry Heist

Paolo Armelli / wired - In just seven minutes, the thieves took off with crown jewels containing with thousands of diamonds along with other precious gems.

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China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world's biggest bit burglar

Jessica Lyons / theregister - 'US is … the greatest source of chaos in cyberspace' China has blamed the US for a "major cyberattack" against its National Time Service Center, alleging it could have disrupted the country's communications, financial, and transportation networks, and eve…

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Cyber giant F5 Networks says government hackers had ‘long-term’ access to its systems, stole code and customer data

Zack Whittaker / techcrunch - The company, which provides cybersecurity defenses to most of the Fortune 500, said the DOJ allowed it to delay notifying the public on national security grounds.

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Feds Seize Record-Breaking $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Alleged Scam Empire

Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg / wired - Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.

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Hackers claim Discord breach exposed data of 5.5 million users

Lawrence Abrams / bleepingcomputer - Discord says they will not be negotiating with threat actors who claim to have stolen the data of 5.5 million unique users from the company's Zendesk support system instance, including government IDs and partial payment information for some people. [...]

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Apple's 'Find My iPhone' Feature Helps Unearth Massive Smartphone Smuggling Ring

bgr - One victim of iPhone theft used Apple's Find My feature and ended up uncovering an enormous smuggling ring of smartphone thieves.

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Japanese beer giant Asahi confirms ransomware attack

Sergiu Gatlan / bleepingcomputer - Japanese beer-making giant Asahi has disclosed today that a ransomware attack caused the IT disruptions that forced it to shut down factories this week. [...]

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