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Cracking open insider threats | ITPro
Cybersecurity teams face a constant battle of ensuring their company is shored up in the right places. Facing down increasingly sophisticated and persistent threat actors, there’s every reason to focus on one’s perimeter to shield oneself against external threats. But insider threats – attacks carried out from within an organization’s environment – must also be part of any business’s security…
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Why you should always be wary of insider threats: A disgruntled employee at a US industrial firm deleted backups and locked IT admins out of workstations in a failed data extortion attempt
A disgruntled IT worker at a national industrial company in the US has been arrested after he launched an extortion campaign targeting his former employer in 2023. Daniel Rhyne was a core infrastructure engineer at an unnamed US-based industrial firm, and attempted to extort his company for $750,000 worth of Bitcoin. According to a press release issued by the US…
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North Korean insider attacks are skyrocketing – dozens of US firms didn’t spot the hacker in their midst
Over 100 organizations have been targeted by North Korean hackers posing as legitimate IT workers to steal money and exfiltrate sensitive information, new research reveals. The threat campaign, operated by a group tracked as FAMOUS CHOLLIMA, involves posing as a locally-based IT technician or software developer, using stolen identities and deepfake technology to pass background checks. In its 2024 Threat…
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Microsoft Delays Recall Launch for Windows Insider Members Until October
Microsoft’s Recall feature, the AI-enabled timeline for Windows 11 on Copilot+ PCs, will be available only to members of the Windows Insider Program in October. The feature was postponed earlier due to concerns about unencrypted data storage. Initially, Microsoft was going to launch a public preview of Recall on June 18, but this was canceled while it sought further community…
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