Scammers pretending to be Microsoft had help from US executives

A pop-up appears on your computer, warning of a virus. You call the "Microsoft technician" in the pop-up message, and they explain that they need remote access to fix it. Most of us know this script by now. It's a scam, operated by people intent on siphoning money from your account. A court case...

Get Executives on board with managing Cyber Risk

Learn how the 2025 Trend Micro Defenders Survey Report helps paint a clear picture of how security teams are looking to work with executive leaders to manage cyber risk...

Crypto wasted: BlueNoroff’s ghost mirage of funding and jobs

Introduction Primarily focused on financial gain since its appearance, BlueNoroff aka. Sapphire Sleet, APT38, Alluring Pisces, Stardust Chollima, and TA444 has adopted new infiltration strategies and malware sets over time, but it still targets blockchain developers, C-level executives, and...

The Cybersecurity Perception Gap: Why Executives and Practitioners See Risk Differently

Does your organization suffer from a cybersecurity perception gap? Findings from the Bitdefender 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment suggest the answer is probably "yes" — and many leaders may not even realize it. This disconnect matters. Small differences in perception today can evolve into major blin...

Cl0p-Linked Gang Attempts to Extort Oracle E-Business Customers

A ‘high-volume’ extortion campaign possibly linked to FIN11 and Cl0p is targeting Oracle E-Business executives. Mandiant and GTIG are investigating unproven data theft claims...

Malicious ZIP Files Use Windows Shortcuts to Drop Malware

Cybersecurity firm Blackpoint Cyber reveals a new spear phishing campaign targeting executives. Learn how attackers use fraudulent document ZIPs containing malicious shortcut files, leveraging 'living off the land' tactics, and a unique Anti-Virus check to deliver a custom payload...

Fake CoinMarketCap Journalists Targeting Crypto Executives in Spear-Phishing Campaign

Fake CoinMarketCap journalist profiles used in spear-phishing target crypto execs via Zoom interviews, risking malware, data theft, and…...

Meta execs pay the pain away with $8 billion privacy settlement

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and several other members of the social media giant's top brass agreed to settle increasingly heated privacy violation claims for the price of $8 billion. It is far from the first time that the company, its subsidiary Facebook, or its executives have responded to allege...

Fake Recruiter Emails Target CFOs Using Legit NetBird Tool Across 6 Global Regions

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new spear-phishing campaign that uses a legitimate remote access tool called Netbird to target Chief Financial Officers CFOs and financial executives at banks, energy companies, insurers, and investment firms across Europe, Africa, Canada, the Middle Eas...

A Flyby on the CFO's Inbox: Spear-Phishing Campaign Targeting Financial Executives with NetBird Deployment

A Flyby on the CFO's Inbox: Spear-Phishing Campaign Targeting Financial Executives with NetBird Deployment By Trellix · May 28, 2025 This blog was written by Srini Seethapathy Trellix wants to acknowledge thequick response from NetBird following our initial findings. NetBird acted immediately to...

Initial Access Brokers Target Brazil Execs via NF-e Spam and Legit RMM Trials

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new campaign that's targeting Portuguese-speaking users in Brazil with trial versions of commercial remote monitoring and management RMM software since January 2025. "The spam message uses the Brazilian electronic invoice system, NF-e, as a lure to entic...

FBI Warns of Data Extortion Scam Targeting Corporate Executives

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released an alert warning of a scam involving criminal actors masquerading as the “BianLian Group.” The cyber criminals target corporate executives by sending extortion letters threatening to release victims’ sensitiv...

Bidirectional communication via polyrhythms and shuffles: Without Jon the beat must go on

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Bidirectional communication is foundational to a well-built team regardless of environment. It's critical in information security to be able to drive a conversation up the ladder and down and not lose the critical elements. One of th...

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Executives Linked to Intellexa Predator Spyware Operation

The U.S. Department of Treasury has imposed fresh sanctions against five executives and one entity with ties to the Intellexa Consortium for their role in the development, operation, and distribution of a commercial spyware called Predator. "The United States will not tolerate the reckless...

U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kaspersky Executives Amid Software Ban

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC imposed sanctions against a dozen individuals serving executive and senior leadership roles at Kaspersky Lab, a day after the Russian company was banned by the Commerce Department. The move "underscores our commitment to...

CISOs share their top 7 strategies for gaining C-Suite buy-in

In a recent webinar hosted by Wiz, three esteemed CISOs shared their strategies for getting C-suite executives on board with plans for a comprehensive security program...

Microsoft Executives Hacked

Microsoft is reporting that a Russian intelligence agency--the same one responsible for SolarWinds--accessed the email system of the companys executives. Beginning in late November 2023, the threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account and ga...

Microsoft Executives’ Emails Breached by Russia Hackers

By Waqas The SolarWinds-infamous hackers, Nobelium, have struck again. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Executives Emails Breached by Russia Hackers...

CISA Releases Joint Guide for Software Manufacturers: The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps

Today, as part of the Secure by Design campaign, CISA published The Case for Memory Safe Roadmaps: Why Both C-Suite Executives and Technical Experts Need to Take Memory Safe Coding Seriously in collaboration with the following partners: United States National Security Agency United States Federal...

Former Uber CISO Appealing His Conviction

Joe Sullivan, Ubers CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction. Prosecutors charged Sullivan, whom Uber hired as CISO after the 2014 breach, of withholding information about the 2016 incident from the FTC even as its investigators were scrutinizing the companys data security a...