Tag: organized
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How China and North Korea Are Industrializing Zero-Days
Tags: china, cloud, corporate, cyberattack, exploit, google, group, hacker, intelligence, korea, north-korea, organized, threat, zero-dayGoogle Cloud’s Hultquist on How State Hackers Exploit Code and Corporate Hiring. John Hultquist, chief analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, Google Cloud, discussed how China and North Korea are transforming cyberattacks into organized, factory-like operations. Alongside zero-day exploits, North Korean IT operatives are quietly infiltrating Fortune 500 companies under false identities. First seen on…
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Preparing for Cyber Warfare CISO’s Defense Resource Guide
In the digital age, preparing for cyber warfare is essential as organizations face unprecedented threats beyond traditional hacking and data breaches. Cyber warfare-where attacks are orchestrated by nation-states or highly organized groups-can cripple critical infrastructure, disrupt business operations, and erode trust in institutions. As these threats become more sophisticated and persistent, the Chief Information Security…
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Europol Creates “Violence-as-a-Service” Taskforce
Europol has launched a new initiative designed to combat recruitment of youngsters into violent organized crime groups First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/europol-creates-violenceasaservice/
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Compliance Challenges in Cloud Data Governance
Adopting cloud computing allows organizations of all shapes and sizes to access data and collaborate in the most flexible ways imaginable. While it brings many benefits, it also brings along compliance issues in data governance, particularly when data crosses borders. Ensuring data is safe, private and organized is paramount. The American Data Privacy Puzzle The..…
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The UK’s phone theft crisis is a wake-up call for digital security
Phone theft is now commonplace in London. The Met Police recently revealed that it seizes 1,000 stolen phones weekly as it cracks down on organized criminal networks driving … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/04/18/uk-phone-theft-crisis/
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Feeling Unorganized? You Can Still Learn Project Management
Project Management Skills Can Be Your Career Force Multiplier in Cybersecurity While technical expertise is foundational in cybersecurity, organizational and project management skills have become critical differentiators for career advancement. Learn practical strategies to develop these capabilities, even if you don’t consider yourself naturally detail-oriented or organized! First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/feeling-unorganized-you-still-learn-project-management-p-3857
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New ResolverRAT malware targets healthcare and pharma orgs worldwide
Tags: authentication, control, data, encryption, group, healthcare, infrastructure, malware, monitoring, network, organized, rat, strategy, threat, toolPersistence and stealthy C2 communication: The new RAT employs multiple persistence strategies, including more than 20 obfuscated registry entries and files dropped in multiple folders on disk. The malware keeps a record of which persistence techniques were successful to use them as a fallback mechanism.Communication with the command-and-control (C2) server uses TLS encryption with a…
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Organized intrusions hit major Australian pension funds
Tags: organizedFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/organized-intrusions-hit-major-australian-pension-funds
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Europol warns of AIs growing role in organized crime operations
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/europol-warns-of-ais-growing-role-in-organized-crime-operations
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Hybrid Threats and AI: Shaping the Future of EU’s Organized Threat Landscape in 2025
The European Union’s landscape of serious and organized crime is undergoing a significant transformation, according to the latest EU-SOCTA 2025 report released by Europol. This comprehensive assessment highlights how hybrid threats and artificial intelligence (AI) have become the core elements of the organized threat landscape in Europe, reshaping the tactics, tools, and strategies employed by…
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How AI, corruption and digital tools fuel Europe’s criminal underworld
Europol has released its 2025 report on serious and organized crime in the EU. The EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (EU-SOCTA) is based on intelligence from EU … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/03/24/europe-criminal-underworld/
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Cybercriminals Taking Advantage of ‘Shadow’ Alliances, AI
A Europol report says nation-state actors are increasingly working with organized crime networks to achieve geopolitical goals, including the destabilization of the EU. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/cybercriminals-taking-advantage-ai-shadow-alliances
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Cybercriminals Taking Advantage Of AI, ‘Shadow’ Alliances
A Europol report says nation-state actors are increasingly working with organized crime networks to achieve geopolitical goals, including the destabilization of the EU. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/cybercriminals-taking-advantage-ai-shadow-alliances
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AI Is Turbocharging Organized Crime, EU Police Agency Warns
AI and other technologies “are a catalyst for crime, and drive criminal operations’ efficiency by amplifying their speed, reach, and sophistication,” the report said. The post AI Is Turbocharging Organized Crime, EU Police Agency Warns appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/ai-is-turbocharging-organized-crime-eu-police-agency-warns/
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CIOs and CISOs take on NIS2: Key challenges, security opportunities
Tags: access, cio, ciso, compliance, cybersecurity, data, GDPR, group, healthcare, ISO-27001, jobs, monitoring, nis-2, office, organized, privacy, regulation, risk, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, trainingCompliance will be easier for some: There are CIOs and CISOs who have found NIS2 compliance relatively easy: those who have worked toward ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, whether they remained in the preparation phase or actually got certified.Those who have the certification report having found themselves with “80% of the work done”: the company is ready…
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Europol Cracks Down on European Document Forgery and Smuggling Ring
Europol has announced a successful operation against a significant organized crime group involved in forging official documents and First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/europol-cracks-down-on-european-document-forgery-and-smuggling-ring/
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Getting the Most Value out of the OSCP: Pre-Course Prep
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, detection, exploit, finance, framework, guide, hacker, hacking, infosec, infrastructure, jobs, kali, linux, mandiant, metric, microsoft, mitre, network, organized, password, penetration-testing, PurpleTeam, RedTeam, risk, service, skills, software, tactics, technology, tool, training, vulnerability, windowsThe first post in a five-part practical guide series on maximizing the professional, educational, and financial value of the OffSec certification pursuit for a successful career in offensive cybersecurity consulting Disclaimer: All opinions expressed in this article are solely my own. I have reviewed the content to ensure compliance with OffSec’s copyright policies and agreements.…
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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025: Takeaways, reflections, and learnings for the future
Tags: attack, best-practice, ceo, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, finance, fortinet, group, intelligence, international, law, lessons-learned, mitigation, open-source, organized, risk, strategy, tactics, technology, threatIncreasingly sophisticated threat actors in the evolving cybersecurity landscape In a world where cybercriminals often operate with a level of efficiency mirroring that of Fortune 500 companies, it is essential that we look to ways we can better collaborate to counter them. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of room for improvement; in 2023, 87%…
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Justice Department Disrupts Cybercrime Network Selling Hacking Tools to Organized Crime Groups
The Justice Department made a new move in disrupting an international network of cybercriminals by announcing the coordinated seizure of 39 cybercrime websites. These websites, associated with a Pakistan-based operation called the HeartSender, were used to sell hacking tools and fraud-enabling resources to transnational organized crime groups. The action was carried out in collaboration with…
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Lynx Ransomware Architecture to Attack Windows, Linux, ESXi Uncovered
Tags: attack, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, encryption, extortion, linux, organized, ransomware, service, tool, windowsThe emergence of the Lynx Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform has drawn significant attention in cybersecurity circles, owing to its advanced technical capabilities, structured affiliate workflow, and expansive ransomware arsenal. Lynx has proven to be a highly organized and efficient cybercriminal operation, offering its affiliates a user-friendly interface, robust encryption capabilities, and extortion tools that underline its…
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Lynx Ransomware Group Unveiled with Sophisticated Affiliate Program
Group-IB researchers have exposed the highly organized affiliate platform and sophisticated operations of the Lynx Ransomware-as-a-Service group First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/lynx-ransomware-sophisticated/
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10 top XDR tools and how to evaluate them
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, cloud, computing, container, corporate, credentials, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, endpoint, finance, firewall, google, guide, Hardware, iam, ibm, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, mitigation, network, office, okta, open-source, organized, risk, security-incident, service, siem, skills, soar, software, spam, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-dayLittle in the modern IT world lends itself to manual or siloed management, and this is doubly true in the security realm. The scale of modern enterprise computing and modern application stack architecture requires security tools that can bring visibility into the security posture of modern IT components and integrate tightly to bring real-time threat…
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How organizations can secure their AI code
Tags: ai, application-security, awareness, backdoor, breach, business, chatgpt, ciso, compliance, control, credentials, crime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, github, healthcare, LLM, malicious, ml, open-source, organized, programming, risk, risk-management, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, training, vulnerabilityIn 2023, the team at data extraction startup Reworkd was under tight deadlines. Investors pressured them to monetize the platform, and they needed to migrate everything from Next.js to Python/FastAPI. To speed things up, the team decided to turn to ChatGPT to do some of the work. The AI-generated code appeared to function, so they…
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Microsoft sues overseas threat actor group over abuse of OpenAI service
Microsoft has filed suit against 10 unnamed people (“Does”), who are apparently operating overseas, for misuse of its Azure OpenAI platform, asking the Eastern District of Virginia federal court for damages and injunctive relief.The suit was filed in late December but was not made public until last Friday, when the initial sealed filings were revealed.…
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EU law enforcement training agency data breach: Data of 97,000 individuals compromised
Personal data of nearly 100,000 individuals that have participated in trainings organized by CEPOL, the European Union (EU) Agency for Law Enforcement Training, has … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/13/eu-law-enforcement-training-agency-data-breach-cepol/