Juan Manuel Gouveia-Aguilera has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for his role in an ATM jackpotting scheme that caused millions in losses. The post Venezuelan Gets Record Federal Prison Term for ATM Jackpotting appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Interesting paper: Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception, employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing court data from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders prosecuted for fraud between 2000 and 2023, our findings reveal that entrepreneurs carry out criminal deceptionRead More »Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
The private equity firm appears to have been targeted as part of a campaign focusing on major financial companies. The post Personal Information Exposed in Apollo Global Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk. The post Rethinking Application Security for the AI Era appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The attack caused real-world operational disruption and raised concerns about the resilience of Britain’s distributed energy infrastructure and the potential for repeatable attacks. The post Iran-Linked Hackers Shut Down UK Power Plant for Four Days appeared first on SecurityWeek.
TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and another $100 million after an order vacates an earlier consent decree against its predecessor company, Musical.ly. The post TikTok Reaches $400 Million Settlement With US Justice Department Over Children’s Privacy appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that’s targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the education, media, technology, and gaming sectors. The vast majority of the targets are located in Brazil, Bolivia, China, Canada, and Vietnam. Details of the threat activity came toRead More »UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit
Claude Security, currently in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers, now runs codebase scans on Mythos 5. The post Anthropic Expands Mythos 5 Access to More Defenders, Unveils $35M Open Source Fund appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on Friday that ByteDance-owned TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit accusing the company of violating child privacy laws in the country. As part of the settlement, the social media platform will pay $300 million immediately, and an additional $100Read More »TikTok Agrees to $400 Million Settlement in U.S. Child Privacy Lawsuit
The spyware-equipped Manic, a persistent Grandoreiro campaign in Latin America and Europe, and an expanded ToxicPanda 2.0 malware. The post Banking Trojans Manic, Grandoreiro, ToxicPanda 2.0 in the Spotlight appeared first on SecurityWeek.
