On Monday, the DOJ held a press conference to announce that it is seeking criminal charges against Huawei, China’s mobile manufacturing giant.
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Apparently, cyber attackers also consider imitation to be the sincerest form of flattery
An ambitious, but apparently unoriginal, cybercrime gang is taking responsibility for a rash of malware attacks that began just prior to the Christmas holidays. They’ve named it Phobos, ostensibly taken from the name given to the personification of fear in Greek mythology.
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Last week’s DHS “alert” upgraded to "an emergency directive”
Last week, the DHS issued an alert concerning repeated DNS hijacking attacks. Yesterday, it was significantly upgraded to an emergency directive due to a spate of recent DNS hijacking incidents that have originated in Iran.
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The Collection #1 Data Breach─sit down first; the numbers are pretty scary
“Collection #1” is one of the largest security breaches of all time and includes 773 million unique email accounts and almost 25 million associated passwords.
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Step aside all ye crimes—there’s a new king in town
It may not attract the attention of Hollywood like jewel heists or the mob, but neither can hold a candle to cybercrime―at least financially.
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