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Are You Unknowingly Helping A Criminal Launder Money?
By a Biometrica staffer An overwhelming majority (over 90%) of all money mule transactions identified through the European Money Mule Actions are linked to cybercrime, the Europol says. What does that mean? It means a large number of law-abiding citizens in the...
Global Conference Calls For More Protection From Cryptocurrency Crime
By a Biometrica staffer A two-day global online virtual assets conference — co-organized by INTERPOL, Europol, and the Basel Institute on Governance — concluded with a call to action on better protecting the world’s financial systems by increasing multi-sector cooperation to strengthen...
Billions Of Dollars In Taxpayer Money Could Be Recovered; Lax Child Protection In CO, MO: HHS Report
By a Biometrica staffer Last week, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Fall Semiannual Report to Congress, in which it was found that the efforts of the HHS in the 2021...
Cyber Provisions In The New $1 Trillion Infrastructure Package
By a Biometrica staffer Earlier this month, Congress officially passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (colloquially known as the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal”), which allocated over $1 trillion to physical infrastructure, as well as aspects like access to clean drinking water and...
From Shootings To Vandalism And Cyber Threats: A Round-Up Of Crimes On Casino Property Over The Weekend
By a Biometrica staffer Casino news from the weekend includes reports of shootings and other crimes on properties, and a cyber crime warning. On Saturday, Nov. 6, a shooter fatally wounded two people before turning the gun on himself at Stateline Casino...
How To Protect Yourself From Cybercrimes: An Introduction
By a Biometric staffer Only yesterday, Nov. 4., we wrote about how the Justice Department had said in an interview with the Associated Press that they are stepping up firepower in the battle against ransomware attacks and cybercrime. The number of cybercrime...
Justice Department Stepping Up Firepower To Combat Cyber Crime
By a Biometrica staffer The Department of Justice (DOJ) is stepping up its firepower in the fight against the rapidly growing threat of ransomware attacks and cybercrime. This news comes as President Joe Biden's administration escalates its response to what it considers...
The United States Is At An Inflection Point In Terms Of Cyber Threats
By a Biometrica staffer The United States has repeatedly faced various kinds of cyberattacks in recent times, with targets ranging from infrastructure to education, and mostly due to criminals wielding ransomware. At the Justice Department Criminal Division’s fifth Cybersecurity Roundtable, Assistant Attorney...
DOJ, DHS Raise Cyberattack Reporting Requirements For Critical Infrastructure Sectors
By a Biometrica staffer The federal government is systematically clamping down on lax cyberattack reporting by critical infrastructure companies in the private sector by tightening the standards that govern when they have to report to federal authorities that they have been the...
Dangers Of Conti Ransomware Brought To The Fore By CISA, FBI’s Advisory
By a Biometrica staffer The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have observed the increased use of Conti ransomware in more than 400 attacks on U.S. and international organizations. In Conti attacks, malicious cyber actors...
‘London Interior Commitments’ From G7 And EU Leaders Call For Increased Global Cooperation On Security
By a Biometrica staffer On Sept. 8–9, U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco met remotely with G7 and EU Security Ministers, along with the Secretary General of INTERPOL, to discuss responding to the rapidly evolving...
The Shifting Landscape Of Terrorism: From The Skies To The Cloud
By Deepti Govind In the last two decades since 9/11, terror groups, mostly acting through either lone actors or small groups of around 2-3 people, have staged attacks just about anywhere and everywhere in the United States. Aviation, of course, is the...
President Biden Urges Industry CEOs To ‘Raise The Bar’ On Cybersecurity
By a Biometrica staffer President Joe Biden met with chief executive officers (CEOs) from several companies including Apple, Google, and JP Morgan Chase at the White House on Wednesday, Aug. 25, and urged them to play their part in stepping up cybersecurity...
2020 Was Critical In The Evolution Of Islamic State And Al Qaeda, Particularly Online: Europol
By a Biometrica staffer Two weeks ago, Europol published its third annual report on Online Jihadist Propaganda. One of the key findings of that report was that 2020 was a critical moment in the evolution of Islamic State and Al Qaeda and...
Healthcare Systems Across Nation Continue To Be Disrupted By Ransomware Attacks
By a Biometrica staffer Nearly half of all hospital executives said their systems were either forced or proactively shutdown in the last six months due to ransomware attacks, a study by IPSOS, sponsored by Philips and CyberMDX, published last week found. Of...
Healthcare — The Latest Critical Infrastructure Sector In The Crosshairs Of Cybercriminals
By a Biometrica staffer It seems like every day brings a new cyber incident that compromises the personal data of thousands, if not millions, of Americans. Last week, we wrote about how K–12 schools became the favored target for malicious cyber actors...
White House Ramps Up Pressure On Critical Infrastructure Companies To Improve Resilience Against Cyberattacks
By a Biometrica staffer In another sign of how seriously President Joe Biden is taking a recent swell in the number of cyberattacks on American entities, on Wednesday, July 28 the White House released a national security memorandum on “improving cybersecurity for...
Trucking & Logistics And Cybersecurity: Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
By a Biometrica staffer Transportation was one of four industries that suffered the highest percentage of malicious attacks last year, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020, along with the technology, retail, and financial sectors. As transportation becomes more...
‘The Next Pearl Harbor, The Next 9/11, Will Be Cyber’ — A Cybercrime News Round-Up
By a Biometrica staffer Experts and lawmakers across the country are sounding the alarm over what seems to be a cyber free-for-all on American businesses, infrastructure systems, and industries. President Joe Biden brought the subject up with the Russian government, and various...
K–12 Schools, The Number One Target For Ransomware Strikes Last Year, Are Still Dealing With Cyber Attacks
By a Biometrica staffer Earlier this month, the Morgan County school system in West Virginia was hit by a cyberattack, presumably from a Russia-based group, in which the files and data seized are being held for a $70 million ransom. Though all...
NSA, CISA, FBI Issue Advisory Saying Chinese State-Sponsored Malicious Activity Major Threat To US Cyberspace Assets
By a Biometrica staffer In a cybersecurity advisory released on Monday, July 19, the National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Chinese state-sponsored cyber activity poses a major threat to U.S. and...
Ransomware Giant REvil Disappears From Internet For Reasons Still Unknown
By a Biometrica staffer Multiple news sites began reporting on Tuesday, July 13, that REvil, the Russia-based group responsible for one of the largest ransomware attacks in history, had gone dark. There is no indication as of yet as to why the...
Besieged Maverick John McAfee Found Dead Just Hours After Spain Authorized His Extradition To The US
By Aara Ramesh In the late evening of Wednesday, June 23, John David McAfee, whose name is virtually synonymous with anti-virus software world over, was found unresponsive in his cell in a prison near Barcelona. He was being held there pending extradition...
Amid All The Ransomware Attacks, The Scope Of The Unnoticed Pulse Connect Hack Is Just Starting To Show
By a Biometrica staffer It was in April that cybersecurity firm FireEye said on its Threat Research Blog that Chinese hackers suspected to be state-backed had exploited widely used networking devices for months to spy on dozens of high-value government, defense industry,...
Real Estate Wire Frauds Are Still On The Rise: What You Need To Know To Protect Yourself
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By a Biometrica staffer There were 13,638 victims of real estate/rental fraud in 2020, amounting to a loss of over $213 million according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Internet Crime Report for the year. That's a 16.7% jump in victim...
Follow The Trail — Cryptocurrency Can Be A Perfect Fit For Transparency In Finance
Even as Bitcoin, the world’s largest digital token, and other cryptocurrencies continued their dramatic free fall Wednesday, we thought it would be a good day to remind people as to why Bitcoin remains a perfect tool for regulators, investigators, banks and nonbank...
Fraudsters Ride The Cryptocurrency Tsunami, Dangerous Tides Ahead
By Aara Ramesh On Monday, May 17, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released data about cryptocurrency investment scams, as reported by consumers in October 2020–March 2021. In that six-month period, the FTC received almost 7,000 complaints, amounting to a total of $80...
President Biden Issues Directives On Securing Energy Supply Chains And Countering Ransomware Attacks
By Aara Ramesh The fallout of last week’s ransomware cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline continues. On Wednesday, May 12, the Biden–Harris administration announced that it was implementing an all-of-government plan to combat fuel shortages resulting from the attack, with the president also issuing...
Critical Infrastructure Companies And Ransomware Wielding Cyber Criminals
By a Biometrica staffer Just last month, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said in a blog that over the last five years, ransomware has evolved from being "a threat to individual computers to posing a serious danger to corporate networks." Or, to put it...
After Spike In Zoom Sessions, And Zoombombings, Company And Authorities Get Down To Business
By Anand Vasu Last week, San Jose-based videoconferencing platform Zoom made a big announcement, which it labeled, “On Academic Freedom for our Higher Education Users.” The crux of the statement was that in the case of Zoom meetings and webinars hosted by...
29 Million Healthcare Records Were Compromised In 2020, But You Can’t Protect Your Cyber World If You Leave Your Real World Unsecured
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By Wyly Wade Section 13402(e)(4) of the HITECH Act requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights, to post notice of any breach of unsecured protected health information that affects 500 or more individuals. According to...
FBI Warns Of Five Vulnerabilities Being Exploited By Russian Hackers
By Anand Vasu The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned on April 16 that actors of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) were exploiting five known vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities listed by the FBI were: CVE-2018-13379 Fortinet FortiGate VPN CVE-2019-9670 Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite...
Europol Recognizes Heightened Threat From Certain Criminal Activities in 2021: Report
By Anand Vasu In their 2021 Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment, or SOCTA, Europol has identified the most serious threats posed by criminal organizations to individuals and businesses. The annual report, put together by Europol after analyzing data from law enforcement...
North Korean Hacker Trio Charged In $1.3B Cyberattack Racket
By Anand Vasu Three North Korean computer programmers were charged with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies.  Jon...
Individual Attacks Down As Cyberattacks Focus On Holding Businesses Hostage
By a Biometrica staffer The chart shows data compromises in the U.S. for the past five years. There was a total of 7,398 publicly reported data breaches in this period. January 29th 2021 There’s been an interesting mix of information on 2020,...
US launches coordinated effort to deter malicious cyber activities
By a Biometrica staffer Four federal agencies launched a coordinated effort to disrupt and deter Iranian malicious cyber activities targeting the US and the broader international community, the Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a statement. The DoJ, the Federal Bureau of...
Florida man sentenced for racially-motivated crimes
By a Biometrica staffer Daniel McMahon, a resident of Florida, was sentenced to more than 3 years in prison for two separate racially-motivated crimes, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. The first of the two involve him threatening an...
The 5 Security Imperatives The Trump Administration Faces
(Above: Donald Trump on the campaign trail in Gettysburg. © Georgesheldon | Dreamstime.com) In a rapidly evolving, technology-driven environment, where the IoT is a way of life, the incoming administration faces a number of new challenges, especially from a security perspective. Here...
Future Shock? ‘Building Siris,’ Building Trust And Securing A Smarter World
(Above: The initial conceptual master plan for Kingdom City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; courtesy Paul Doherty.) By Kadambari M. Wade Architect. Innovator. Integrator. Traveler. Paul Doherty, President & CEO of TDG [The Digit Group, Inc.], is one of the world’s foremost authorities on...
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