Tag: jobs
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Four arrested in latest ‘PowerOFF’ DDoShire takedown
More than 20 countries participated in a coordinated takedown of platforms selling cheap access to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ddos-hire-europol-doj-crackdown
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US joins nearly two dozen other countries in striking back against DDoShire platforms
Authorities around the world seized more than 50 websites associated with DDoS “booter” services. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ddos-service-takedowns-arrests-operation-poweroff/817814/
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US joins nearly two dozen other countries in striking back against DDoShire platforms
Authorities around the world seized more than 50 websites associated with DDoS “booter” services. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ddos-service-takedowns-arrests-operation-poweroff/817814/
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Operation PowerOFF: 53 DDoS domains seized and 3 Million criminal accounts uncovered
Operation PowerOFF shut down 53 DDoS-for-hire domains, arrested four suspects, and exposed data on over 3 million criminal user accounts. Operation PowerOFF is an international law enforcement action that dismantled 53 domains linked to DDoS-for-hire services used by over 75,000 cybercriminals. Authorities arrested four suspects, seized infrastructure, and gained access to databases containing more than…
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Operation PowerOFF Knocks Out 75,000 DDoS Attackers and Over 50 Service Domains
A major international law enforcement campaign has hit the DDoS-for-hire ecosystem, warning more than 75,000 suspected users and disrupting the infrastructure that helped power online attacks around the world. Backed by Europol, Operation PowerOFF brought together authorities from 21 countries in a coordinated action week on 13 April 2026. The operation resulted in four arrests,…
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DDoSHire Services Disrupted by International Police Action in ‘Operation PowerOff’
Coordinated action by FBI, Europol and others seizes infrastructure, makes arrests and sends warning letters to known DDoS service users First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ddos-services-hit-by-police/
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DDoSHire Services Disrupted by International Police Action in ‘Operation PowerOff’
Coordinated action by FBI, Europol and others seizes infrastructure, makes arrests and sends warning letters to known DDoS service users First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ddos-services-hit-by-police/
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The Rise of Remote Jobs in Cybersecurity and Authentication
Explore the rise of remote jobs in cybersecurity and authentication, and discover career opportunities, skills, and trends shaping the future. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/the-rise-of-remote-jobs-in-cybersecurity-and-authentication/
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Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS Domains, Exposes 3 Million Criminal Accounts
An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations that were used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals.The ongoing effort, dubbed Operation PowerOFF, disrupted access to the DDoS-for-hire services, took down the technical infrastructure supporting them, and obtained access to First seen on…
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US nationals sentenced for aiding North Korea’s tech worker scheme
Kejia Wang and Zhenxing Wang established shell companies and hosted laptop farms to help operatives obtain jobs at more than 100 U.S. companies. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/us-nationals-sentenced-facilitate-north-korea-tech-worker-scheme/
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Article 12 and the Logging Mandate: What the EU AI Act Actually Requires FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, breach, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, data-breach, finance, GDPR, grc, healthcare, infrastructure, insurance, jobs, metric, monitoring, regulation, risk, saas, service, toolApr 16, 2026 – Lina Romero – When GDPR arrived, the organisations that had mistaken documentation for capability were the ones that struggled the most. They had policies about data retention but no technical controls enforcing those policies. They had breach notification procedures but no systems capable of detecting a breach in time to use…
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Insurance carriers quietly back away from covering AI outputs
Coverage in flux: Phil Karecki, CTO for the insurance sector at managed services provider Ensono, also sees some carriers backing away from covering AI outputs, although he’s not sure whether it’s a major trend. Insurance carriers continuously experiment with how to provide coverage, he notes.Carriers have tried to separate tightly governed AI deployments from more…
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The endless CISO reporting line debate, and what it says about cybersecurity leadership
Tags: access, business, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, firewall, governance, infrastructure, jobs, monitoring, network, resilience, risk, strategy, technology, vulnerabilityThe governance gap behind the debate: The persistence of this debate reflects a broader governance gap.Historically, information security emerged as a technical discipline embedded within IT departments. Early security teams focused primarily on protecting infrastructure: Firewalls, access controls, network monitoring and vulnerability management. In that environment, it was natural for the security function to sit…
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Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents
Multiple approaches to agent security: Today, agent security falls into one of several camps, which include increasingly inadequate inline approaches such as API gateways and web application firewalls (WAFs), and out-of-band analysis systems that infer intent by analyzing agent behavior against a baseline.Curity’s Access Intelligence, by contrast, is a self-hosted microservice that acts as a…
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Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents
Multiple approaches to agent security: Today, agent security falls into one of several camps, which include increasingly inadequate inline approaches such as API gateways and web application firewalls (WAFs), and out-of-band analysis systems that infer intent by analyzing agent behavior against a baseline.Curity’s Access Intelligence, by contrast, is a self-hosted microservice that acts as a…
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Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents
Multiple approaches to agent security: Today, agent security falls into one of several camps, which include increasingly inadequate inline approaches such as API gateways and web application firewalls (WAFs), and out-of-band analysis systems that infer intent by analyzing agent behavior against a baseline.Curity’s Access Intelligence, by contrast, is a self-hosted microservice that acts as a…
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Officials seize 53 DDoShire domains in ongoing crackdown
Operation PowerOFF’s latest globally coordinated action identified more than 75,000 alleged cybercriminals. Officials warned each of them to stop jamming up traffic. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ddos-for-hire-takedowns-operation-poweroff/
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European police email 75,000 people asking them to stop DDoS attacks
Europol coordinated an operation against for-hire distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services, including the arrest of four people and the takedown of 53 domains. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/european-police-email-75000-people-asking-them-to-stop-ddos-attacks/
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Cybersecurity Risks of Hiring a Virtual Assistant and How to Protect Your Business
Virtual assistants boost productivity but add cybersecurity risks. Poor access control, weak devices, and credential sharing can expose sensitive business data. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/cybersecurity-risks-hiring-virtual-assistant-business/
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How the enterprise supply chain has created a global attack surface
For years, organisations have treated cyber security as something that happens within their own walls. Protect the network, secure the endpoints, monitor the environment. Job done. Security was architected like a moat and castle, but today the model is no longer effective. Today, the real exposure sits outside the organisation. It sits in third parties,…
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How the enterprise supply chain has created a global attack surface
For years, organisations have treated cyber security as something that happens within their own walls. Protect the network, secure the endpoints, monitor the environment. Job done. Security was architected like a moat and castle, but today the model is no longer effective. Today, the real exposure sits outside the organisation. It sits in third parties,…
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North Korea Uses ClickFix to Target macOS Users’ Data
Sapphire Sleet uses fake job offers and phony Zoom updates to deliver ClickFix attacks that steal credentials and sensitive data from Macs. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/north-korea-clickfix-target-macos-users-data
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CISA cancels summer internships for cyber scholarship students amid DHS funding lapse
The move adds to mounting pressure on a scholarship program already strained by hiring freezes, proposed budget cuts and a growing backlog of unplaced graduates. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cisa-cancels-cybercorps-internships-dhs-funding-crisis/
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CISOs Urged to Innovate with Talent Retention as Job Satisfaction Declines
A new IANS report claims just 34% of cybersecurity professionals plan to stay put in the next 12 months First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisos-innovate-talent-retention/
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Secretary Mullin must help finish the job: Urge the Senate to confirm Plankey
With global cyber threats escalating and budget cuts looming, CISA needs a Senate-confirmed director. It’s time to confirm Sean Plankey. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/national-security-ntsc-op-ed-sean-plankey-cisa-confirmed-director/
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The AI inflection point: What security leaders must do now
The questions have matured: The AI discussion in security has evolved in phases.First came skepticism from security leaders, asking whether AI actually works in security operations. Given years of overpromised technology, the caution was warranted.Experimentation followed, with questions centering on what types of work AI should handle and where it introduces risk.Now, the dominant questions…
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The AI inflection point: What security leaders must do now
The questions have matured: The AI discussion in security has evolved in phases.First came skepticism from security leaders, asking whether AI actually works in security operations. Given years of overpromised technology, the caution was warranted.Experimentation followed, with questions centering on what types of work AI should handle and where it introduces risk.Now, the dominant questions…
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How AI is transforming threat detection
Tags: ai, attack, automation, best-practice, business, ceo, cisa, cve, cyber, data, detection, email, endpoint, framework, google, governance, group, incident response, intelligence, international, jobs, kev, malware, network, nist, organized, phishing, risk, skills, soc, switch, technology, threat, toolReducing alert fatigue: In alert triage, AI agents are reducing alert fatigue by clustering alert patterns and enabling risk-based prioritization, adds Dipto Chakravarty, chief product and technology officer at Black Duck.For example, natural language processing agents can summarize threat alerts at scale and correlate them with threat intel feeds such as CVE.org and the CISA KEV Catalog,…
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Alleged German DDoSHire Kingpin Behind Fluxstress Caught in Thailand
Alleged German cybercrime figure behind Fluxstress and Neldowner arrested in Thailand after years running global DDoS-for-hire services across countries. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/german-ddos-for-hire-kingpin-fluxstress-thailand/
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Alleged German DDoSHire Kingpin Behind Fluxstress Caught in Thailand
Alleged German cybercrime figure behind Fluxstress and Neldowner arrested in Thailand after years running global DDoS-for-hire services across countries. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/german-ddos-for-hire-kingpin-fluxstress-thailand/