Multinational food company Kraft Heinz Co. is investigating a cyberattack that resulted in the alleged theft of data by a ransomware gang. The attack came to light after the Snatch ransomware gang named Kraft Foods as a ransomware victim of their dark web leaks site on Dec. 14. The gang claimed that the attack took ...

New cybersecurity disclosure requirements mandated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange will go into force in coming days, requiring companies to disclose cybersecurity incidents, with some exceptions, within four days of their occurrence. There are two components to the disclosure rules. The first is mandatory cybersecurity incident reporting of “material” incidents. The disclosure of incidents ...

The U.S. Department of Justice today said it indicted four people and arrested two of them for laundering millions of dollars from cryptocurrency investment “pig butchering” scams. Pig butchering scams are a type of cryptocurrency investment scam where fraudsters initially contact potential victims through cold messaging or other methods in an attempt to develop a bond with ...

A new report from mobile security platform provider Zimperium Inc. finds that mobile banking heists continued to increase in 2023, with researchers uncovering 29 malware families that targeted 1,800 banking applications across 61 countries throughout the year. The 2023 Mobile Banking Hesits Report details how banking trojans — a type of malicious software designed to infiltrate banking ...

Cybersecurity company S.C. Bitdefender SRL today debuted a new scam detection service designed to help users verify fraudulent online schemes delivered by email, embedded links, text and instant messaging with assistance from an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. Called Bitdefender Scamio, the new service is a scam detection chatbot that offers a second opinion on potential fraud attempts by ...

Hacker-powered cybersecurity solutions provider Zerocopter today launched a new marketplace that enables companies to expose vulnerabilities and detect threats more efficiently and affordably. Supported by Zerocopter’s hundreds-strong hacker network, the new marketplace is tailored to businesses of any size and offers a new way of accessing security packages through its software-as-a-service marketplace without requiring lengthy ...

Cybersecurity services company Group-IB Global Pvt. Ltd. today published details of a previously unknown threat group that has been active in targeting gambling, government, retail and travel websites in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Brazil. Dubbed “GambleForce,” the threat group uses a set of basic yet very effective techniques, including SQL injections and ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup Zero Networks Ltd. announced today that it has raised $20 million in new funding to recruit development, marketing and sales personnel. Founded in 2019, Zero Networks aims to tackle what the company calls one of the most complex problems in cybersecurity: preventing attacks from moving laterally within an organization’s network to exfiltrate ...

Knowledge management startup Stravito AB today announced a new integration feature with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams for seamless knowledge integration across sources. The new feature has been designed to make it easier to automatically sync and upload SharePoint files to the Stravito platform, improving accessibility to critical insights, among other benefits. In addition to improving accessibility to insights, Stravito ...

A new report released today by application programming interface security company Cequence Security Inc. warns that retail fraud is up nearly 700% as cybercriminals exploit the holiday shopping season. The report is based on anonymized traffic and attack data from billions of transactions from Cequence’s customer base, which includes Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. It found ...