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North Korean IT Workers Expand Global Reach and Tactics

SecureWorld News

Payments were processed via cryptocurrency or third-party services like Payoneer and TransferWise to obscure origins. For CISOs and security leaders, this is a moment to re-evaluate remote hiring practices, contractor vetting procedures, and endpoint monitoring in BYOD environments.

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Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s

Krebs on Security

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be. Of course, Sites is not the real CISO of Chevron.

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GUEST ESSAY: Why the arrests of cyber criminals in 2021 will incentize attackers in 2022

The Last Watchdog

I expect a new wave of ransomware operators that use cryptocurrency to avoid tracking, remotely-located operations to avoid extradition and arrest, and the hardening of operational security to avoid infrastructure take down. The ascendency of CISOs. Reconstituted hacker rings. Central importance of identity.

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U.S. Department of Justice Launches Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team

SecureWorld News

Treasury Department announced a counter-ransomware initiative to battle cybercrime like ransomware. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is taking steps forward to combat criminal activity made easy by Bitcoin by launching the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET). Background of cryptocurrency law enforcement team.

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Fake LinkedIn CISO Profiles Target Top Companies

SecureWorld News

Most recently, one of those new schemes involves fake LinkedIn profiles representing Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) at some of the world's largest corporations. CISO profiles spoofed on LinkedIn. One of the fake profiles that was discovered was for one Victor Sites, claiming to be the CISO at Chevron.

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MailChimp breached, intruders conducted phishing attacks against crypto customers

Security Affairs

During the weekend, multiple owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets reported having received fake data breach notifications from Trezor, BleepingComputer first reported. A statement shared by Mailchimp CISO Siobhan Smyth with TechCrunch revealed that the company discovered the security breach on March 26. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 447 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

North Korea-linked APT Diamond Sleet supply chain attack relies on CyberLink software New InfectedSlurs Mirai-based botnet exploits two zero-days SiegedSec hacktivist group hacked Idaho National Laboratory (INL) CISA adds Looney Tunables Linux bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Enterprise software provider TmaxSoft leaks 2TB of data (..)