Oct 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananPhishing Attack / Cybercrime Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the seizure of 107 internet domains used by state-sponsored threat actors with ties to Russia to facilitate computer fraud and abuse in the country. “The Russian government ran this scheme to steal
The case for browser fingerprinting: personalizing user experience, improving fraud detection, and optimizing login security Have you ever heard of browser fingerprinting? You should! It’s an online user identification technique that collects information about a visitor’s web browser and its configuration preferences to associate individual browsing sessions with a single
May 18, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / App Sec Apple has announced that it prevented over $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions and rejected roughly 1.7 million app submissions for privacy and security violations in 2022. The computing giant said it terminated 428,000 developer accounts for potential fraudulent activity, blocked 105,000
Mar 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Endpoint Security Multiple threat actors have been observed using two new variants of the IcedID malware in the wild with more limited functionality that removes functionality related to online banking fraud. IcedID, also known as BokBot, started off as a banking trojan in 2017. It’s