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Catch-IT: SonicWall warns customers to reset credentials after breach

SonicWall warned customers to reset credentials after their firewall configuration backup files were exposed in a security breach that impacted MySonicWall accounts.  After detecting the incident, SonicWall has cut off the attackers' access to its systems and has been collaborating with cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies to investigate the attack's [...]

By |2025-09-24T10:31:24-05:00September 24th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms

U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider, a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting at least $115 million in ransom payments from victims. The charges came as Jubair and an alleged co-conspirator appeared in [...]

By |2025-09-24T14:08:51-05:00September 24th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on GitHub, experts warn. The malware, which briefly infected multiple code packages from the security vendor CrowdStrike, steals and publishes even more [...]

By |2025-09-29T14:23:50-05:00September 16th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Catch-IT: Deepfake Media Scams

Did you know...Scams targeting Americans are on the rise - since 2020, the FBI has received 4.2 million+ reports of fraud, resulting in $50.5 billion in losses.Introducing deepfakes.  Deepfakes can be altered images, videos or audio.  They may depict people you know - including friends and family - or public [...]

By |2025-09-12T13:48:02-05:00September 12th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions

In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and quickly became a top source of Kremlin-linked cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But new findings show those sanctions have done little [...]

By |2025-09-12T09:58:55-05:00September 11th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Edition

Microsoft Corp. today issued security updates to fix more than 80 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. There are no known “zero-day” or actively exploited vulnerabilities in this month’s bundle from Redmond, which nevertheless includes patches for 13 flaws that earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” label. Meanwhile, both [...]

By |2025-09-12T09:39:56-05:00September 9th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

18 Popular Code Packages Hacked, Rigged to Steal Crypto

At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious software today, after a developer involved in maintaining the projects was phished. The attack appears to have been quickly contained and was narrowly focused on stealing [...]

By |2025-09-12T10:05:46-05:00September 8th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging messages from the [...]

By |2025-09-12T10:02:56-05:00September 5th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. We’ve since learned that these scam gambling sites have proliferated thanks to a new Russian affiliate program [...]

By |2025-08-29T08:49:38-05:00August 28th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet [...]

By |2025-08-29T08:25:51-05:00August 26th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|

SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years

A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims. Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla. pleaded guilty in April 2025 to charges [...]

By |2025-08-27T02:09:06-05:00August 20th, 2025|Categories: BMT Announcement|
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