Unauthorized-party fraud has reclaimed center stage, reversing last year’s pattern and reshaping how banks think about risk. That is the core shift in the “2025 State of Fraud and Financial Crime in the United States” report, produced by PYMNTS Intelligence in collaboration with Block. Based on a...
The Justice Department announced the seizure of what it called one of the world’s largest hacker forums. In a Wednesday (March 4) news release, the department said LeakBase, “one of the world’s largest online forums” trading in stolen data and cybercrime tools, had been dismantled in a global...
Critical infrastructure such as financial services, energy and healthcare is most likely to be targeted by Iranian cyberattacks, CSO reported Wednesday (March 4). While such attacks have not materialized so far during the current war, it could be that Iranian-aligned groups are positioning themselves to...
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is recommending that users of Apple iPhone models running some older operating systems update their devices to the latest version of iOS or, if that’s not possible, enable Apple’s Lockdown Mode for enhanced security. GTIG said in a Tuesday (March...
If it’s not one threat, then it’s another for 21st-century cybersecurity professionals. Just how increasingly intertwined today’s global threat landscape is becoming was underscored by a Monday (March 2) alert from the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warning businesses, particularly those “with a presence,...
OpenClaw, an open-source artificial intelligence agent designed for developers, had a vulnerability chain that allowed websites to take control of a developer’s agent with no plugins, extensions or user interaction required, Oasis Security said in a Thursday (Feb. 26) blog post. Attacks were enabled by...
The integration of artificial intelligence features into web browsers has created a new security challenge, cyber risk specialist Unit 42 by Palo Alto Networks wrote in a Monday (March 2) blog post. This new browser architecture introduces an AI assistant that could allow attackers to...
In cybersecurity, visibility has always been a prerequisite for control. Today, the scale and stakes of what organizations can no longer see are approaching a tipping point. The result is not simply greater complexity, but a growing inability for organizations to identify where their own...
A merchant’s returning customer attempts to complete a $1,800 luxury purchase on a mobile device, mistypes a password twice, triggers a reset email and leaves before the link arrives. A reused password harvested in an unrelated breach enables a criminal to access a stored wallet...