Levi Strauss & Co. has disclosed that an unauthorized third party accessed company files through a social engineering scam, according to the company’s Friday (Aug. 7) filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The jeans and apparel company said in the filing that it recently detected that it “experienced a cybersecurity...
A voice phishing (vishing) campaign targeting financial services, private equity and professional services firms has adopted some new techniques since May, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said in a Thursday (Aug. 6) blog post. The campaign, which is being conducted by threat actor UNC6671 under several extortion brands, pursues compromises that lead to...
Users of Apple’s Mac products are reportedly facing a new malware threat. This attack, known as Infinit Stealer, uses social engineering tactics and is difficult to detect once its payload is delivered, Mashable reported Monday (March 30). The report, citing information from cybersecurity company Malwarebytes,...
Hackers and cyber criminals no longer look like characters in science fiction movies like The Matrix. They don’t hide behind hoodies, green text or zero-day exploits. Instead, they increasingly look like you or me, or your trusted bank, logistics partner, or a credit card or...
December 06, 2024
Technology begets opportunity, for both successful companies and fraudsters. And today’s rising tide of cybercrime has unveiled a new frontier of fraud, one where malicious entities and cybercriminals are focused on exploiting the building blocks of digital identity—domain names, hosting services and financial supply chains. Among these threats, business email compromise (BEC) attacks have evolved […]
May 16, 2023
Over £1.2 billion ($1.5 billion) in the U.K. was stolen through authorized and unauthorized financial fraud in 2022, according to a recently published UK Finance report. And while that amounts to...
April 26, 2023
Today’s sophisticated cyberfraud landscape requires constant vigilance by merchants against the ever-present threat of bad actors. As companies take crucial steps to update their prevention toolkits against increasingly digital and...
December 21, 2022
Phone number masking cases have caused European authorities to issue advice on how to prevent fraud. While the big European fraud trial of the moment is the Wirecard case, in...
October 01, 2026
A new report says Chinese hackers are impersonating American AI professionals to steal emails from other artificial intelligence (AI) experts. That report, issued Thursday (Oct. 1) by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, said that a hacking group known as “TA419” has since last year routinely attempted to steal passwords from think tanks, defense contractors, universities and law […]
August 07, 2026
Levi Strauss & Co. has disclosed that an unauthorized third party accessed company files through a social engineering scam, according to the company’s Friday (Aug. 7) filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The jeans and...
August 06, 2026
A voice phishing (vishing) campaign targeting financial services, private equity and professional services firms has adopted some new techniques since May, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said in a Thursday (Aug. 6) blog post. The campaign, which is...
March 31, 2026
Users of Apple’s Mac products are reportedly facing a new malware threat. This attack, known as Infinit Stealer, uses social engineering tactics and is difficult to detect once its payload...
