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Medicare scam calls, texts and ads: What to watch for this Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment is peak season for Medicare fraud – here’s how to tell real outreach from fakes and keep your details safe
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DOJ charges 14 over a sprawling North Korean remote work scheme
Federal authorities have charged 14 people and seized roughly 187 computers in their newest effort to disrupt North Korea’s remote IT worker scheme. The Justice Department announced the indictment…
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West African scammers targeted in joint international government-industry operation
A joint international law enforcement and industry operation against scammers netted 28 arrests, rescued 117 trafficking victims and led to the takedown of more than 3.7 million accounts, the Justice…
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Hiring in the Age of Deepfakes: Protecting Your Company from Synthetic Applicants
Hiring in the Age of Deepfakes: Protecting Your Company from Synthetic Applicants October 13, 2026 GuidePoint Security By Andrew Jones, CPO and Co-Founder, Adaptive Security BLOG 5 min. Deepfake…
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Roseland Community Hospital Association Settles Data Breach Lawsuit for $650,000
Roseland Community Hospital Association in Illinois has agreed to settle a class action data breach lawsuit for $650,000. The lawsuit was filed in response to a 2024 cybersecurity incident that…
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Low-Cost Android Phones Ship With Preinstalled Malware That Turns Them Into Residential Proxies
Low-cost Android smartphones have been shipped with malicious software baked into the device firmware, allowing bad actors to covertly install apps, conduct ad fraud, and turn devices into…
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AI messaging scam costs Italy's top bank Intesa millions, sources say
MILAN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Fraudsters using AI to impersonate senior executives stole €95 million ($108 million) from Fideuram, the private banking arm of Italy's biggest lender Intesa Sanpaolo…
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Angi Data Sale, The Tour Guy Breach, Healthcare Leads, KPN Leak, and CafeMom Data Resurface
Angi Data Sale, The Tour Guy Breach, Healthcare Leads, KPN Leak, and CafeMom Data Resurface SOCRadar Dark Web Team identified several new underground posts, including an alleged Angi customer…
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Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model
In this Help Net Security interview, Akshay Joshi, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, talks about how AI, geopolitics and industrialized fraud are changing cyber risk…
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Bitdefender finds preinstalled Android malware you can’t uninstall, seen in 150 countries
Bitdefender finds Midnight Mimosa, preinstalled Android malware on cheap MediaTek phones that fakes ad clicks, drops apps and builds a proxy botnet. Bitdefender researchers discovered a campaign…
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Canadian cybersecurity executive arrested in federal extortion case
Federal authorities arrested a Canadian cybersecurity executive Thursday in Pennsylvania on charges of conspiracy of extortion, according to federal court records posted Friday. Edward Dubrovsky, 54…
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🏴☠️ Interlock has just published a new victim : Shalom Christian Academy
As a school, Shalom Christian Academy is legally and ethically obligated to maintain a wide range of confidential information. However, they are grossly negligent in protecting their own security and…
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Bacon County Health Services Investigating Cyber Incident
Data breaches have been announced by Bacon County Health Services in Georgia, Comprehensive Orthopaedics & Musculoskeletal Care in Connecticut, Imagine the Possibilities in Iowa, and Health Plans…
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CPU-Auth: Device Fingerprinting for Authentication via DVFS Side-Channel
arXiv:2610.10766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lack of effective authentication has resulted in numerous security and privacy breaches, including unauthorized access to protected information…
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Ransomware recovery CEO indicted after allegedly paying hackers and pocketing millions
Authorities accuse the owner of a so-called ransomware remediation company of swindling clients victimized by ransomware attacks into paying the company inflated fees under false pretenses. Zohar…
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Low-cost Android phones ship with residential proxy malware
A malware campaign dubbed 'Midnight Mimosa' has been discovered on low-cost Android smartphones that ship with malicious software embedded in their firmware, allowing attackers to silently install…
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MonsterCloud Owner Charged With Secretly Paying Ransomware Demands
MonsterCloud owner Zohar Pinhasi allegedly paid ransomware demands behind clients’ backs, then charged them millions for the supposed recovery. Zohar Pinhasi, the owner of Florida-based MonsterCloud…
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U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Alleged HAFNIUM Hacker Zhang Yu
The U.S. offers $10M for Zhang Yu, accused of helping run HAFNIUM attacks that compromised thousands of organizations worldwide. The U.S. State Department is offering a $10 million reward for…
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Ransomware recovery firm boss charged with secretly paying attackers and overcharging victims
The owner of Florida-based ransomware remediation company MonsterCloud has been charged with fraud for allegedly paying ransomware gangs behind his clients’ backs and billing them far more than the…
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MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying the attackers to…