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...

Zendesk’s Subdomain Registration Exposed to Phishing, Pig Butchering Scams

CloudSEK uncovers a Zendesk vulnerability allowing cybercriminals to exploit subdomains for phishing and investment scams. Learn about the…...

Imperva’s Wildest 2025 AppSec Predictions

Humans are spectacularly bad at predicting the future. Which is why, when someone appears to be able to do it on a regular basis, they are hailed as visionaries, luminaries and celebrated with cool names like Nostradamus and The Amazing Kreskin. Nostradamus made his fame on predictions about the...

New Investment Scam Leverages AI, Social Media Ads to Target Victims Worldwide

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new kind of investment scam that leverages a combination of social media malvertising, company-branded posts, and artificial intelligence AI powered video testimonials featuring famous personalities, ultimately leading to financial and data los...

Serhiy Tokarev Explains Why Health Tech Startups Are Worth Investing In

Health Tech is booming, projected to grow from $312.92B in 2024 to $981.23B by 2032. Serhiy Tokarev highlights…...

Hackers Using Fake Video Conferencing Apps to Steal Web3 Professionals' Data

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new scam campaign that leverages fake video conferencing apps to deliver an information stealer called Realst targeting people working in Web3 under the guise of fake business meetings. "The threat actors behind the malware have set up fake companies usi...

Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams

The scourge of “malvertising” is nothing new, but the tactic is still so effective that it's contributing to the rise of investment scams and the spread of new strains of malware...

Meta takes down more than 2 million accounts in fight against pig butchering

Meta provided insight this week into the company's efforts in taking down more than 2 million accounts that were connected to pig butchering scams on their owned platforms, Facebook and Instagram. Pig butchering scams are big business, with hundreds of millions of dollars involved every year. The...

Experts Uncover 70,000 Hijacked Domains in Widespread 'Sitting Ducks' Attack Scheme

Multiple threat actors have been found taking advantage of an attack technique called Sitting Ducks to hijack legitimate domains for using them in phishing attacks and investment fraud schemes for years. The findings come from Infoblox, which said it identified nearly 800,000 vulnerable registere...

US Government Says Relying on Chinese Lithium Batteries Is Too Risky

A new document shows the Department of Homeland Security is concerned that Chinese investment in lithium batteries to power energy grids will make them a threat to US supply chain security...

Fake Trading Apps Target Victims Globally via Apple App Store and Google Play

A large-scale fraud campaign leveraged fake trading apps published on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, as well as phishing sites, to defraud victims, per findings from Group-IB. The campaign is part of a consumer investment fraud scheme that's also widely known as pig butchering, in whi...

Brandon Adkins’ Career Journey - Taking Chances and Tackling New Challenges

Brandon Adkins is the Manager of our Threat Intelligence & Detection Engineering TIDE team. His career journey spans a variety of roles and teams where he has been able to showcase his technical skills in security. Since joining Rapid7, he’s had experience as a Penetration Testing Consultant,...

Imperva Security Efficacy and Operational Efficiency Leads the Industry in SecureIQLab’s Cloud WAAP Comparative Report

In the 2024 Cloud Web Application and API Protection WAAP CyberRisk Comparative Validation Report from SecureIQLab, Imperva outperformed all other vendors in both security efficacy and operational efficiency. This comprehensive report, based on third-party testing, demonstrates Imperva's commitme...

The Annual SaaS Security Report: 2025 CISO Plans and Priorities

Seventy percent of enterprises are prioritizing investment in SaaS security by establishing dedicated teams to secure SaaS applications, as part of a growing trend of maturity in this field of cybersecurity, according to a new survey released this month by the Cloud Security Alliance CSA. Despite...

Cybersecurity CPEs: Unraveling the What, Why & How

Staying Sharp: Cybersecurity CPEs Explained Perhaps even more so than in other professional domains, cybersecurity professionals constantly face new threats. To ensure you stay on top of your game, many certification programs require earning Continuing Professional Education CPE credits. CPEs are...

Cannabis investment scam JuicyFields ends in 9 arrests

Europol and its associates have arrested 9 people in conjunction with a cannabis investment scam known as "JuicyFields". The suspects used social media to lure investors to their website. There they found information about a “golden opportunity” to invest in the cultivation, harvesting and...

Google Sues App Developers Over Fake Crypto Investment App Scam

Google has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two app developers for allegedly engaging in an "international online consumer investment fraud scheme" that tricked users into downloading bogus Android apps from the Google Play Store and other sources and stealing their funds under the guise of...

Social media influencers targeted by identity thieves

Social media influencers are attractive targets for identity thieves. With large followings and a literal influence on their followers, its no wonder they are targeted by scammers and spreaders of fake news. A subset of influencers are the so-called "finfluencers": influencers that provide their...

citharainvestment.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3872775

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Cybercriminals Using Novel DNS Hijacking Technique for Investment Scams

A new DNS threat actor dubbed Savvy Seahorse is leveraging sophisticated techniques to entice targets into fake investment platforms and steal funds. "Savvy Seahorse is a DNS threat actor who convinces victims to create accounts on fake investment platforms, make deposits to a personal account, a...