Jonathan Greig reports: The popular anime streaming platform Crunchyroll confirmed on Monday evening that a batch of customer information leaked online over the weekend is legitimate. In a statement to Recorded Future News, a spokesperson for the company said their investigation into the stolen documents is ongoing alongside cybersecurity experts. “At this time, we believe…
Bill Toulas reports: GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networks. The threat monitoring firm that tracks internet-wide activity via a global sensor network says this problem has grown significantly over the past……
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, large-scale mobile malware campaign that’s targeting Android and iOS platforms with fake dating, social networking, cloud storage, and car service apps to steal sensitive personal data. The cross-platform threat has been codenamed SarangTrap by Zimperium zLabs. Users in South Korea appear to be the primary focus. “This extensive campaign…
Ionut Arghire reports: A Chinese threat actor was seen disrupting the drone supply chain in multi-wave attacks against various organizations in Taiwan and South Korea, Trend Micro reports. Dubbed Earth Ammit and believed to be tied to Chinese APTs, the hacking group was seen launching two attack campaigns between 2023 and 2024, targeting organizations across…
Lawrence Abrams reports: People worldwide are being targeted by a massive spam wave originating from unsecured Zendesk support systems, with victims reporting receiving hundreds of emails with strange and sometimes alarming subject lines. The wave of spam messages started on January 18th, with people reporting on social media that they received hundreds of emails. While the messages do not……
The job of a SOC analyst has never been easy. Faced with an overwhelming flood of daily alerts, analysts (and sometimes IT teams who are doubling as SecOps) must try and triage thousands of security alerts—often false positives—just to identify a handful of real threats. This relentless, 24/7 work leads to alert fatigue, desensitization, and…
Austrian privacy non-profit noyb (none of your business) has sent Meta’s Irish headquarters a cease-and-desist letter, threatening the company with a class action lawsuit if it proceeds with its plans to train users’ data for training its artificial intelligence (AI) models without an explicit opt-in. The move comes weeks after the social media behemoth announced…
