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The U.S. Department of Justice charged a British man for his alleged role in stealing $784,000 worth of cryptocurrency using SIM swap attacks. According to the unsealed indictment, Joseph James O’Connor – also known as “PlugWalkJoe” – conspired with others to steal approximately $784,000 worth of cryptocurrency from a Manhattan-based cryptocurrency company. It’s alleged that O’Connor, who is in his early twenties, perpetrated a scheme with unnamed co-conspirators to hijack control of three phone numbers…

Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced that it has been named a Leader in Forrester’s report, “The Forrester Wave™: Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security Solutions, Q4, 2021.”  In its first-ever ICS Security Solutions Wave, Forrester evaluated vendors’ capabilities across 27 different criteria and categorized them as Leaders, Strong Performers, Contenders and Challengers. As one of only three leaders, Tenable received the highest possible scores (5.0) in seven criteria, including ICS Protocol Support, Vulnerability…

Cybersecurity company Proofpoint released a new report on Thursday highlighting an increase in call center-based cyberattacks, noting a variety of scams perpetrated by threat actors stealing almost $50,000 per attack in some instances.  Proofpoint researchers Selena Larson, Sam Scholten and Timothy Kromphardt, said the company sees thousands of telephone-based cyberattacks each day, with most falling into two different categories. Some use fake call centers to steal a victim’s money, and others use call centers to…

As hacks become more common, organizations have no room for cybersecurity mistakes. By Ivan Paynter, National Cybersecurity Specialist at ScanSource   Ransomware cost Americans an estimated $1.4 billion last year, and beyond high-profile hacks like the Kaseya and Colonial Pipeline breaches, cyber threats are more common than ever. As a result, businesses of all sizes are scrambling to learn more about cyber security and ensure that they have the proper measures in place to protect their operations. These are the top three considerations organizations must take into account when implementing or…

Consumers have been warned about a significant rise in call center threat activity, in which attackers use email alongside call center customer service agents to scam victims, sometimes out of tens of thousands of dollars. Telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD) usually comes in two forms, according to cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. One uses free, legitimate remote assistance software to steal money, while the other uses malware, such as BazaLoder, disguised as a document to compromise a computer. These…

BEC (business email compromise) scams are a type of phishing attack in which fraudsters trick people into handing over money or corporate data. Unlike most phishing attacks, they are highly targeted. The scammer will take the time to compromise or replicate the email address of an organisation’s CEO or another high-level executive, and then email an employee with their request. For example, if the attack was designed to steal money, the fraudster would email the…

A Russian-speaking ransomware ‘group’ which called on rival entities to join forces in targeting the US government may have been a social engineering experiment designed to toy with Western media, it has emerged. The so-called “Groove” collective published a post on October 22, exhorting its “business brothers” to “stop competing, unite and begin to destroy the US public sector,” according to threat intelligence firm, Flashpoint. “In its October 22 post, Groove called for a fight…