November 27, 2023 at 08:12PM Amir Hossein Golshan, a 25-year-old man from Los Angeles, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for carrying out SIM-swap attacks, committing fraud with Zelle payments, and impersonating Apple support. Between April 2019 and February 2023, he defrauded hundreds of people, stealing $740,000 from over 500 victims. Golshan used … Read more
October 27, 2023 at 03:15PM Microsoft’s Incident Response and Threat Intelligence team has labeled Octo Tempest, a financially motivated hacking group, as one of the most dangerous criminal groups. The group has been active since early 2022, initially targeting telecom and outsourcing companies with SIM swap attacks. They later shifted to extortion using stolen data … Read more
October 15, 2023 at 01:53PM Valve is implementing additional security measures on Steam to address the recent outbreak of malware being pushed from compromised publisher accounts. Starting October 24, game developers will be required to pass an SMS-based security check before pushing updates, and the same requirement will be enforced for adding new users to … Read more