October Release: Q&A with Ari Weil

Shortly after Akamai announced the October 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance and media product lines, Akamai's VP of Product Marketing, Ari Weil, took over Akamai's Twitter account for a live October Release Q&A. For those that missed the live event,...

How Machine Learning is Changing the Face of Financial Services

Artificial intelligence AI has become integrated into our everyday lives. It powers what we see in our social media newsfeeds, activates facial recognition to unlock our smartphones, and even suggests music for us to listen to. Machine learning, a subset of AI, is progressively integrating into o...

SAS 2019: Genesis Marketplace Peddles 60K Stolen Digital Identities

SINGAPORE – A newly-discovered underground marketplace, dubbed Genesis, is peddling tens of thousands of stolen digital “masks” — i.e., identities — which equip cybercriminals with the tools they need to get away with online fraud. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit 2019, whic...

No Data is an Island: One Infosec Pro’s Experience As a Consumer Involved in a Data Breach

British Airways BA was hit by a major breach that resulted in a loss of customer records. I was notified promptly by BA. I thought their public response was timely. By the way, this breach was announced while I was about to board a BA flight to Heathrow. My credit card was used to purchase my...

Chaturbate: Reflected XSS on secure.chaturbate.com

The hacker found that an external asset used for fraud detection on secure.chaturbate.com was not sanitizing input parameters and could be used for reflected XSS. This external asset was removed...

On Financial Fraud

There are some good lessons in this article on financial fraud: That's how we got it so wrong. We were looking for incidental breaches of technical regulations, not systematic crime. And the thing is, that's normal. The nature of fraud is that it works outside your field of vision, subverting the...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID31285: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on November 14, 2017

Medium Alert ID: 55910 First Published: 2017 November 14 14:50 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID31285 may contain the following files: Name |...

Fraud Detection in Pokémon Go

I play Pokémon Go. There, I've admitted it. One of the interesting aspects of the game I've been watching is how the game's publisher, Niantic, deals with cheaters. There are three basic types of cheating in Pokémon Go. The first is botting, where a computer plays the game instead of a person. Th...

Beyond Catching Sender Spoofing – using AI to stop email fraud and Business Email Compromise

In September, we announced our new email security technologies powered by XGen™ and a new product, Smart Protection for Office 365. One key technology introduced was our new AI based Email fraud, or Business Email Compromise BEC, detection technique. A user receiving a BEC email will have a...

Private Eye Allegedly Used Leaky Goverment Tool in Bid to Find Tax Data on Trump

In March 2017, KrebsOnSecurity warned that thieves who perpetrate tax refund fraud with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service were leveraging a widely-used online student loan tool to find critical data on consumers that allows them to claim huge refunds with the IRS in someone else's name. This week...

3 Mobile UK Hacked – 6 Million Customers' Private Data at risk

Three, one of UK's biggest mobile operators, has become the latest victim of a massive data breach that reportedly left the personal information and contact details of 6 Million of its customers exposed. The company admitted the data breach late Thursday, saying that computer hackers gained acces...

​Google, Yahoo, Facebook Collaborate to Blacklist Bad Bots

The major tech companies including Google, Facebook, and Yahoo! have joined their hands to launch a new program meant to block fake web traffic by blacklisting flagged IP addresses. Today, majority of data center traffic is non-human or illegitimate, so to fight against this issue the Trustworthy...

IBM Outs Dyre Wolf Campaign Steals $1 Million

The Dyre banking Trojan‘s ascension to the top of the financial malware food chain took a massive leap forward in the first three months of 2015. Already spreading a damaging piece of malware that targets corporate bank accounts, the Eastern European keepers of Dyre recently upped their social...

Call Center Phone Fraud for Fun at Profit at Black Hat

Reconnaissance in the context of targeted attacks usually involves scouring freely available online resources such as social media and developer forums. Personal information willfully posted to these sites are clues a hacker can use to build a profile on a target, map systems and network...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Billing Statement Email Messages on July 12, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30065 First Published: 2013 July 15 12:22 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an electronic billing statement for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipie...

Study Shows One in Four Who Receive Data Breach Letter Become Fraud Victims

A study released Wednesday shows one in four consumers who receive a data breach letter become the victim of identity fraud. That statistic represented 12.6 million victims last year — one million more than the year before, according to the 2013 Identity Fraud Report released by Javelin Strategy ...

Chinese Government targets Uyghur group by malware attack

An old vulnerability in Word for OS X is being used in increasing levels of attacks, probably government-sponsored hacking programs against Uyghur group, including Tibetans, NGOs and human rights organizations. A number of attacks have been seen directed at the World Uyghur Congress, a Munich-bas...

How to Fail at Corporate Fraud

Working with forensics experts from the FBI, Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services Practice developed a piece of linguistic, fraud-monitoring software that identified language commonly used among employees engaged in corporate malfeasance. The accounting giant plans to offer...

eCommerce Fraud Detection Tool - An Anti-fraud solution by MasterCard

eCommerce Fraud Detection Tool - An Anti-fraud solution by MasterCard In the past, a lost wallet, stolen credit card, or misplaced ID were among the paramount culprits of identity theft.Today, one need not lose a thing to eventually lose it all. commerce merchants have a new tool at their disposa...

Cyber crime Complaints in US Fell by 10% in 2010 !

The U.S. agency that tracks complaints of criminal activity on the Internet reported Thursday that fewer people complained about Internet fraud in 2010 than in the previous year. The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 runs a Web site where victims can report details of any cyberfraud. It shares...