BEC scams continue to rise and accounted for $1.2 billion in losses in 2018. The good news is that the FBI was able to work with banks to recover some of the funds.
“Bug bounty apostate” and Luta Security founder Katie Moussouris said bug bounty programs have veered away from their original mission: help organizations become more secure.
A series of targeted phishing campaigns have hit victims in government finance agencies and embassies in several European and African countries.
Google is planning to block sign-in attempts from embedded browser frameworks soon to help defeat some phishing attacks.
An unknown leaker is publishing hacking tools used by the APT34 attack group that has been linked to Iranian intelligence.