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Next-Gen Security Awareness Training Series On The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 27, 2025 – Watch the Video “We’re very excited to be launching a new podcast series where we’re going to be digging deep into AI-powered social engineering,” Brian Long, founder and (…)
Former Fraudster Founded FindMyScammer.com To Track Down Cybercriminals
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 26, 2025 – Listen to the Podcast Until just six years ago, Marwan Ouarab was scamming people, according to a CNN story. He would sell them fake concert tickets by printing barcodes on (…)
7AI Puts Swarming AI Agents In The Hands Of Defenders To Offload Non-Human Work
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 25, 2025 – Watch the Video AI represents an inflection point in cybersecurity. The rise of GenAI is allowing attackers to move from the low and slow to the fast and The post 7AI Puts (…)
Women Know Cyber: Inspiring Stories On Social Media
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 22, 2025 – Watch the Video @WomenKnowCyber on X, curated by Cybercrime Magazine Deputy Editor Amanda Glassner with assistance from Media Coordinator Taylor Fox, is chock full of (…)
The Past, Present and Future of Women In Cybersecurity
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 21, 2025 – Listen to the podcast Cybercrime Magazine spoke to three top experts in our field for a look back, and ahead, at women in cybersecurity. Our guests are Theresa Payton, (…)
Combating the $10 Trillion Cybercrime Business
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 20, 2025 – Watch the video On a Bloomberg Businessweek Daily video feature last week, Anneka Gupta, Rubrik’s Chief Product Officer, discusses the emergence of so-called AI agents, (…)
How Countries Can Collaborate To Combat Cybercrime
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 19, 2025 – Read the full story in The DefendOps Diaries The sentencing of Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky, a cybercriminal responsible for hacking approximately 3,000 websites, highlights the (…)
The $10.5 Trillion Shadow Economy and the Cybersecurity Gold Rush
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 18, 2025 – Read the full story in AInvest According to Cybersecurity Ventures, by 2025, global cybercrime damages are projected to hit $10.5 trillion annually—a figure that eclipses (…)
Pentests Reveal Top 5 Most Impacted Industries In 2025
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 15, 2025 – Download the full report from BreachLock BreachLock’s 2025 Penetration Testing Intelligence Report, released this week, analyzes over 4,200 pentests conducted over the past (…)
Fortune 500 CISO on Ransomware Incident Response Planning and Cyberinsurance
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 14, 2025 – Listen to the Podcast In 2025 alone, global ransomware damage costs are predicted by Cybersecurity Ventures to cost $59 billion, and that will rise to more than $275 billion (…)
Google suffers data breach, puts out Gmail warning
Google has warned Workspace users that they should change to passkeys after a surge in phishing attacks. Learn more and what you can do.
26 August
UNC6384 Deploys PlugX via Captive Portal Hijacks and Valid Certificates Targeting Diplomats
A China-nexus threat actor known as UNC6384 has been attributed to a set of attacks targeting diplomats in Southeast Asia and other entities across the (…)
25 August
Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 14.5.6. Update the Tor client to 0.4.8.17. Update Thunderbird to 128.13.0. Fixed problems Remove irrelevant (…)
21 August
Fake ChatGPT Desktop App Delivering PipeMagic Backdoor, Microsoft
Microsoft warns that a fake ChatGPT desktop app was used to deliver PipeMagic malware, linked to ransomware attacks…
18 August