Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries
Authorities arrested more than 5,800 alleged cybercriminals and seized $293 million in a global operation targeting social-engineering scams and money […]
Computer Security
Close Encounters of the Human Kind
Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter. I love a Spielberg summer. His ability to imbue a sense of wonder,
CVE-2024-2658 vulnerability in Schneider Electric software: risks to industrial control systems
About the vulnerability The CVE-2024-2658 vulnerability was discovered in 2024 within the FlexNet Publisher component of the Schneider Electric Floating
Cybersecurity for the long haul: Protecting legacy OT systems
Many manufacturing plants depend on OT systems that stay in service for many years. That long run can hide significant
Apple’s Hide My Email tweak leaves privacy fans fuming
A few days ago, Apple quietly announced what might have seemed like a minor change to one of its most
Workato expands Agent Studio with Headless API, AI guardrails
Workato has announced two new capabilities for Agent Studio: Headless API and Agent Guardrails. Headless API lets Genies, Workato’s AI
Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada – Krebs on Security
Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things
CISA credential leak prompts tighter security measures
A major credential leak spurred the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to strengthen protections for its sensitive materials, improve how
Introduction to COM usage by Windows threats
Component Object Model (COM) is a fundamental Windows technology used by legitimate applications for object activation, inter-process communication, automation and language-independent component reuse. Those same qualities
The Gentlemen RaaS: rapid growth and a new ransomware variant
Introduction This year saw the emergence of The Gentlemen, a prominent example of a group operating under the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS)