Cybercrime & Digital Threats

The fake cards, looking like club membership cards from major retail stores, have barcodes that hide credit card details.

The hacked email account of a finance employee was exploited to steal millions of dollars from the Puerto Rico government.

Fake dating apps were cited as one of the most notable sources of #malware in Africa, with 7,000 attacks detected in 2019.

Before, the Emotet malware mostly spread through spam campaigns. Now, it can also propagate via Wi-Fi.

Over 30K records of US inmates were inadvertently exposed through a leaky AWS S3 cloud storage bucket.

In a quest to clamp down on synthetic and manipulated media, Youtube and Twitter ban deepfakes.

Trend Micro researchers detect a spam campaign targeting South Korea. Cybercriminals send out emails written as a notice from the Korean Fair Trade Commission.

Trickbot and Emotet were concealed by using text from articles about #Trump and placing them in the file metadata.

Researchers discovered a vulnerability in smart light bulbs that can allow hackers to install malware and infect other IoT devices.