Warning—Scammers Are Using Facetime to Empty Bank Accounts
Pieter Arntz, MalwareBytes
Apple is urging users to treat any suspicious FaceTime call or message as untrusted, especially if it involves payments, refunds, password resets, or requests for personal information.
This warning appears in a broader Apple support article about scams that target iPhone and iPad users through social engineering. Apple says attackers may contact people by phone calls, FaceTime, text messages, or emails while pretending to represent a trusted organization…
Read moreModern Cyber Risk Is Breaking Longstanding Security Assumptions
Published in PaymentsJournal
Modern geopolitical tensions now extend well beyond traditional statecraft.
They increasingly manifest through wiper malware attacks, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against critical organizations, and coordinated disinformation and influence operations designed to shape public perception in real time…
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When Cybersecurity and Geopolitics Collide, and Other Cybersecurity News
Akshay Joshi, World Economic Forum
Last month, the US ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its new AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, for foreign nationals shortly after launch, underscoring cybersecurity’s growing geopolitical importance.
The export controls were lifted weeks later after Anthropic assured the government that it could identify risks, report malicious activity, and cooperate on security protocols.
Read moreWhat a Cyberattack Taught Me About Leadership
Satin Mirchandani, CUSO Magazine
There’s a moment in every cybersecurity incident when you realize it’s no longer a technical problem. It’s a leadership one.
Last August, that moment came for us at Marquis. A vulnerability in a third-party vendor’s cloud backup service was exploited by a threat actor who gained unauthorized access to a limited portion of our systems. Within hours, we had detected, contained, and begun responding to the breach. Our compliance and hosted platforms were untouched. Every affected client was back online within weeks…
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