Quantifying the ROI of Cyber Threat Intelligence: a Data-Driven Approach

The valuation of Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI remains a persistent challenge due to the problem of negative evidence: successful threat prevention results in non-events that generate minimal observable financial impact, making CTI expenditures difficult to justify within traditional cost-benefit...

Enterprise Security Incident Analysis and Countermeasures Based on the T-Mobile Data Breach

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of T-Mobile's critical data breaches in 2021 and 2023, alongside a full-spectrum security audit targeting its systems, infrastructure, and publicly exposed endpoints. By combining case-based vulnerability assessments with active ethical hacking...

Meme Coins in 2025: High Risk, High Reward, and Rising Security Threats

Meme coins started as internet jokes, but by 2025, they’ve become one of the most volatile and talked-about…...

Crypto Market Outlook: How Crypto Will Come of Age in 2025

2024 was a significant year for cryptocurrency markets, both in terms of growth, user adoption, investment, and technological…...

CNN, BBC, and CNBC websites impersonated to scam people

Researchers have uncovered a large campaign impersonating news websites, such as those from CNN, BBC, CNBC, News24, and ABC News, to promote investment scams. Adding a well known brand to your scammy site is a tale as old as time, and gives it an air of legitimacy that increases the likelihood th...

BaitTrap: Over 17,000 Fake News Websites Caught Fueling Investment Fraud Globally

A newly released report by cybersecurity firm CTM360 reveals a large-scale scam operation utilizing fake news websites—known as Baiting News Sites BNS—to deceive users into online investment fraud across 50 countries. These BNS pages are made to look like real news outlets: CNN, BBC, CNBC, or...

Now More Than Ever, Foundational AI Research and Infrastructure Depends on the Federal Government

Leadership in the field of AI is vital for our nation's economy and security. Maintaining this leadership requires investments by the federal government. The federal investment in foundation AI research is essential for U.S. leadership in the field. Providing accessible AI infrastructure will...

Human-Centred AI in FinTech: Developing a User Experience (UX) Research Point of View (PoV) Playbook

Advancements in Artificial Intelligence AI have significantly transformed the financial industry, enabling the development of more personalized and adaptable financial products and services. This research paper explores various instances where Human-Centred AI HCAI has facilitated these...

Fake bank ads on Instagram scam victims out of money

Ads on Instagram—including deepfake videos—are impersonating trusted financial institutions like Bank of Montreal BMO and EQ Bank Equitable Bank in order to scam people, according to BleepingComputer. There are some variations in how the scammers approach this. Some use Artificial Intelligence AI...

FedRAMP at Startup Speed: Lessons Learned

For organizations eyeing the federal market, FedRAMP can feel like a gated fortress. With strict compliance requirements and a notoriously long runway, many companies assume the path to authorization is reserved for the well-resourced enterprise. But that's changing. In this post, we break down h...

The Ramifications of Ukraine’s Drone Attack

You can read the details of Operation Spiderweb elsewhere. What interests me are the implications for future warfare: If the Ukrainians could sneak drones so close to major air bases in a police state such as Russia, what is to prevent the Chinese from doing the same with U.S. air bases? Or the...

CVE-2019-7552

An issue was discovered in PHP Scripts Mall Investment MLM Software 2.0.2. Stored XSS was found in the the My Profile Section. This is due to lack of sanitization in the Edit Name section...

Google Is Using On-Device AI to Spot Scam Texts and Investment Fraud

Android’s “Scam Detection” protection in Google Messages will now be able to flag even more types of digital fraud...

New Investment Scams Use Facebook Ads, RDGA Domains, and IP Checks to Filter Victims

Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on two threat actors that orchestrate investment scams through spoofed celebrity endorsements and conceal their activity through traffic distribution systems TDSes. The activity clusters have been codenamed Reckless Rabbit and Ruthless Rabbit by DNS...

Why is Ransomware Still a Thing in 2025?

When was the last time you had a serious conversation about cybersecurity that didn’t touch on ransomware? We all know that it’s one of the most persistent and damaging threats out there. Yet, this isn’t because it’s new—ransomware’s been around since 1989—but because we are making it far too eas...

INTERPOL Arrests 306 Suspects, Seizes 1,842 Devices in Cross-Border Cybercrime Bust

Law enforcement authorities in seven African countries have arrested 306 suspects and confiscated 1,842 devices as part of an international operation codenamed Red Card that took place between November 2024 and February 2025. The coordinated effort "aims to disrupt and dismantle cross-border...

Google Acquires Wiz for $32 Billion in Its Biggest Deal Ever to Boost Cloud Security

Google is making the biggest ever acquisition in its history by purchasing cloud security company Wiz in an all-cash deal worth $32 billion. "This acquisition represents an investment by Google Cloud to accelerate two large and growing trends in the AI era: improved cloud security and the ability...

12 Million Zacks accounts leaked by cybercriminal

A cybercriminal claimed to have stolen 15 million data records from the customers and clients of the company Zacks—a number that a separate investigation, after analysis, shaved down to just 12 million. Zacks is an investment research company best known for its "Zacks Ranks," which are daily list...

Interning at Rapid7 Prague: Meet Mko

Mkrtich Hovsepyan – most people call him Mko – is an intern at Rapid7’s fast-growing office in Prague. He graduated from the luminous Charles University in Prague, and is currently a first-year master’s student in Artificial Intelligence there. He was in our first impressive crop of interns, and ...

Investors, Trump and the Illuminati: What the “Nigerian prince” scams became in 2024

"Nigerian" spam is a collective term for messages designed to entice victims with alluring offers and draw them into an email exchange with scammers, who will try to defraud them of their money. The original "Nigerian" spam emails were sent in the name of influential and wealthy individuals from...