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- DOJ Charges Nashville Man for Helping North Koreans Get U.S. Tech Jobs – The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday charged a 38-year-old individual from Nashville, Tennessee, for allegedly running a “laptop farm” to help get North Koreans remote jobs with American and British companies.
- INTERPOL Recovers $41 Million in Largest Ever BEC Scam in Singapore – INTERPOL said it devised a “global stop-payment mechanism” that helped facilitate the largest-ever recovery of funds defrauded in a business email compromise (BEC) scam.
- Thousands of Devices Wiped Remotely Following Mobile Guardian Hack – Hackers targeted MDM firm Mobile Guardian and remotely wiped thousands of devices, but there is no evidence of data compromise.
- France’s Grand Palais discloses cyberattack during Olympic games – The Grand Palais Réunion des musées nationaux (Rmn) in France is warning that it suffered a cyberattack on Saturday night, August 3, 2024.
- Suspicious Minds: Insider Threats in The SaaS World – Everyone loves the double-agent plot twist in a spy movie, but it’s a different story when it comes to securing company data. Whether intentional or unintentional, insider threats are a legitimate concern. According to CSA research, 26% of companies who reported a SaaS security incident were struck by an insider.
- ADT confirms data breach after customer info leaked on hacking forum – American building security giant ADT confirmed it suffered a data breach after threat actors leaked allegedly stolen customer data on a popular hacking forum.
- USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation – The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally. One of those messages went to Grant Smith, who infiltrated their systems and exposed them to US authorities.
- Microsoft discloses Office zero-day, still working on a patch – Microsoft has disclosed a high-severity zero-day vulnerability affecting Office 2016 and later, which is still waiting for a patch.