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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

Krebs on Security

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based based technology companies.

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News alert: Sweet Security’s LLM-powered detection engine reduces cloud noise to 0.04%

The Last Watchdog

15, 2025, CyberNewswire — Sweet Security , a leader in cloud runtime detection and response, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking patent-pending Large Language Model (LLM)-powered cloud detection engine. Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. For more information, users can visit [link].

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Cisco removed the backdoor account from its Unified Communications Manager

Security Affairs

Digital communications technology giant Cisco addressed a static SSH credentials vulnerability in its Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM). “This vulnerability is due to the presence of static user credentials for the root account that are reserved for use during development. ” reads the advisory.

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Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup

Krebs on Security

technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass , MailChimp , Okta , T-Mobile and Twilio. That Joeleoli moniker registered on the cybercrime forum OGusers in 2018 with the email address joelebruh@gmail.com , which also was used to register accounts at several websites for a Joel Evans from North Carolina.

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Report: Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims

Krebs on Security

consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. But new data released this week suggests that for some of the nation’s largest banks, reimbursing account takeover victims has become more the exception than the rule. In the case of Zelle scams, the answer is yes. ” Sen.

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Streamlining detection engineering in security operation centers

SecureList

Default use of alert severity SIEM default rules don’t take into account the context of the target system. Instead, they rely on the default severity in the rule, which is often set randomly or based on an engineer’s opinion without a clear process. This article focuses solely on SIEM-based detection management.

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The C-Suite Power Shift: Why CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs Must Realign to Survive

Jane Frankland

The modern enterprise C-suite is undergoing a seismic shift—not over profits or market share, but over who leads technology, shapes strategy, and ultimately defines the future of the business. The digital era has brought with it not just new technologies, but new power dynamics. Duplicated technologies inflate costs.

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